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Summary Levels and Content Terms of entrance/Total class time Qualification for entranceSummary
This course covers Japanese in all levels from beginners to advanced level, so it meets various needs of students who wish to achieve accurate, natural Japanese for their purposes such as achieving high-leveled Japanese linguistic skills that are required to advance to higher education in Japan, or to learn business Japanese that will be mandatory to work with Japanese people after getting employed.
This course will help you pull up your over-all Japanese skills by training in 4 basic skills; "Speaking", "Listening", "Reading" and "Writing" in good balance, so this would provide best training for those who wish to become interpreters or translators in the future.
Our class will teach not only Japanese linguistic skills but also shares topics about current Japanese society, customs, values and history. Through the class works and discussions with you classmates we help you develop global sense that will be a base for you to be successful in the future international society.
This course will help you pull up your over-all Japanese skills by training in 4 basic skills; "Speaking", "Listening", "Reading" and "Writing" in good balance, so this would provide best training for those who wish to become interpreters or translators in the future.
Our class will teach not only Japanese linguistic skills but also shares topics about current Japanese society, customs, values and history. Through the class works and discussions with you classmates we help you develop global sense that will be a base for you to be successful in the future international society.
Levels and Contents
Beginners Level
We prepare various activities for students to feel the pleasure of actually using Japanese that they have learned. As example we invite Japanese guests for students to talk and ask questions about Japan, make presentations and make drama style skits about certain situations in short amount of time in front of the teachers who teach in advanced level etc. Pronunciation is very importat in foreign language study, so we start teaching proper pronunciation from level 1, the first class in the elementary level.
Intermediate Level
In this level, we learn things which will be considered as a common sense in the society. We learn vocaburaries and technics to understand Japanese newspapers and TV news that would be used offen in the advanced level classes. We constantly practice expressing one's own opinions and feelings through daily 1minute speech and discussion. We also use TV drama to practice conversational Japanese that can be used in your daily conversation. You also have options to take extra classes to prepare for JLPT, EJU and conversation practice classes etc. depending on your needs to brush up the abilities you wish to enhance.
Advanced Level
In this level, you will be trained to make full use of the things that you learned until intermediate level. You will learn more vocaburary that will help enrich your Japanese expression. You will learn more about Japan including defference between Japanese culture and your own countries. You will also learn how to express your opinions about various issues in proper writing as an international-minded person who lives in the current global community.
Terms of entrance/Total class time
| Course | Terms of entrance | Subjects and total class hours | |
| General Japanese Course (2 years) |
January, April | Japanese 1520 | Japanese culture and social situation 80 |
| (1year 9 months) | July | Japanese 1330 | Japanese culture and social situation 70 |
| (1 year and half) | October | Japanese 1140 | Japanese culture and social situation 60 |
Qualification for entrance
The applicants must have finished 12 years or longer of official education in their home countries. For the applicants who are from countries with 11 years education system (from elementary school till high school graduation) and have completed the official education, Special University Preparatory Course is avalable for their course selection.