Japanese school training courses in Boston, MA (public, in-house or online)

This course is designed for people with little or no background in Japanese. Our goal is to develop a basic foundation in the four skills of speaking, listening, reading, and writing. Hiragana and katakana are introduced. In addition, basic information on how kanji are used in Japanese is provided. (4 credits)

All of our courses are carefully structured and designed to cover a wide range of topic areas, grammatical structures and skills. A Cactus Foreign Language Course includes the following elements:
Developing and improving your spoken language
Building your communicative confidence so you can talk with native speakers.
Developing your listening and comprehension skills to improve understanding.
Learning and reviewing the grammatical structures of the language
Focusing on langua...

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Japanese Level 1 is designed to teach beginners a day-to-day language, and to introduce pronunciation, basic sentence patterns and essential vocabulary for communicating in the standard spoken language. The course includes reading and writing both the hiragana and the katakana writing systems, using daily phrases, understanding numerals, time expressions, and counting systems.

Japanese Level 2 continues to build upon the basic foundation acquired in Level 1, emphasizing further vocabulary and conversational practice using new grammar including the conjugation of adjectives, and the -te and -nai forms of verbs. Examples of customary behavior in everyday situations such as giving and receiving gifts, using the telephone, asking directions will be introduced. The course provides frequent practice in reading and writing hiragana and katakana.

Japanese Level 3 is for those who are motivated to continue to a more advanced level of the language. Students learn more complex sentence structures through the study of dictionary forms and the -ta forms of verbs while acquiring conversational skills such as making comparisons, and describing things using adjectives. About 50 kanji are also introduced.