This course has a focus on oral communication rather than the written language. Japanese will be taught in Romaji (the alphabet). Situations include greetings, shopping, dining out, and asking directions. Each week, new vocabulary will be added.
Travelling to Japan? Love Japanese food, movies and anime? Going skiing in Japan? Learn essential vocabulary and effective communication tips to enjoy your visit to Japan. This course will help you to appreciate the language and culture even more.
Course fees
This course offers a course fee subsidy through funding from the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) for NZ citizen and permanent migrant adults, their partners on work visas or visitor visas, and refugees. To qualify, registrants should be over the age of 16 years and not currently enrolled in a secondary school.
We need to collect extra information such as age, ethnicity, educational achievement and gender for statistical purposes. You must also provide evidence of NZ citizenship, residency or refugee status if requested. A condition of accepting a course fee subsidy is that you commit to at least 80% attendance of your course.
About the course
This course has a focus on oral communication rather than the written language. Japanese will be taught in Romaji (the alphabet). Situations include greetings, shopping, dining out, and asking directions. Each week, new vocabulary will be added. There will be lots of speaking exercises and practise to develop your confidence with spoken Japanese.
On completion of this course you will be able to:
There will be minimal or no homework usually. In the second level class, the teacher will begin to introduce some Japanese characters such as Hirigana, Katakana and Kanji.
Prerequisites
This course is for adults learning Japanese for the first time. No prior Japanese language is required.
Selwyn Community Education is a community education centre based at Selwyn College, Kohimarama, Auckland. Each year we offer a wide range of more than 750 evening and weekend courses, plus some daytime English for Migrants courses.
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Although nearly all Japanese now learn English at school, many are reluctant to speak it to foreigners, so if you go to Japan, you cannot rely on finding someone to explain things for you in English! Knowing enough Japanese to get around is a great benefit.
This course will introduce students to Japanese culture and language class for beginners and people who wish to visit Japan.
With 128 million native speakers around the globe, it’s no surprise that Japanese is a useful language to know for business, travel, and pleasure. Japan is a trendsetter when it comes to pop culture and its influences can be found through the spread of Japanese music, and films around the world
Learning Japanese gives ?konga the chance to communicate in a different language, and to gain an appreciation of a fascinating culture. ?konga develops their speaking and listening skills, as well as reading and using the unique kanji writing system, which can be a rewarding and enjoyable.
Japanese is the language that will take you to more places in life, your studies, and your career. Likewise, it will enrich your personal life as much as your travel. Experiences through immersion learning, so you will get maximum exposure to your target language.
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