Japanese
5-star classes taken by more than 750 students
Absolute Beginner
parent, K. S.
My 12 year old really enjoyed this class! He was able to use the words and phrases in his daily life and he found it very interesting to learn the backgrounds of the language as well. Meredith is a really encouraging and engaging teacher. He is looking forward to doing the next level!
Intermediate
parent, Anne
The style of teaching is excellent. And practicing with other students with the teacher is very helpful. Questions are always answered!
Absolute Beginner
parent, Tanya
When I asked my daughter what she would rate this class, from 1 to 5 stars, she exclaimed, “SIX STARS!” Needless to say, she loved this class and Meredith’s gentle and effective style, and she is looking forward to continuing on to the next level!
Intermediate
parent, anonymous
Meredith Kaunitz is one of my 13 year old son's favorite teachers. He's learned so much so far, and says that it's mostly due to her teaching style and the study resources she provides. We highly recommend any classes she teaches.
Just for fun
Absolute Beginner Japanese (Online)
Hawaii Time
Minimum Required Skills
None
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include introducing oneself, asking about personal information, numbers up to 9,999 and asking about prices. Students will learn to read and write in Romaji and Hiragana.
Tuesdays 10:00-10:55pm EST/4:00-4:55pm HST
Taught by Tanya Harris
SPRING SEMESTER (starts early March 2022)
12 weeks for $150
Not-so-absolute Beginner Japanese (Online)
For anyone who has taken Absolute Beginner Japanese Teens. If you think your student would be a good fit but hasn't taken the pre-requisite class, please email our instructor at info@artplaylearn.com.
Taught by: Meredith Kaunitz
Mondays 10:00-10:55am EST
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
8 weeks for $100
Katakana Keeper
(Online)
Minimum Required Skills
Ability to read and write Romaji and Hiragana
This writing supplement is the perfect thing for students who need more instructional guidance to learn to recognize and write the Katakana alphabet fluently. We will spend time comparing the characters to the hiragana. Then we will put it in context, writing and reading words that include it with some real world application practice.
Not currently scheduled
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
6 weeks for $72
Intermediate Part 2 (Online) Hawaii Time
Minimum Required Skills
- Took Intermediate part 1 at Art Play Learn
OR
- Read and write using Hiragana
- Have some experience with Katakana
- Be able to make, read and write in kanji numbers up to 9,999
- Understand how to use the counters for age, money, months, days of the month, and time
- Know how to ask basic information seeking questions and yes/no questions for like/dislike, wellness, dates, days of the week, times, and adverbs
- Change verbs between the infinitive (~u form) and the neutral (~masu form) in the unfinished tense
- Change verbs into the ~tai forms and ~mashyou form
- Use describing words in the affirmative and negative
- Use entry level kanji for natural objects (tree, moon, sun, mountain, etc)
Students will learn additional basic kanji, how to talk about human relationships, how to use describing words to describe people, new vocabulary for things and verbs.
Taught by Tanya Harris
Schedule TBD. Request a section below and let us know what your availability is.
8 weeks for $100
Absolute Beginner Japanese (Online)
Eastern Time
Minimum Required Skills
None
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include introducing oneself, asking about personal information, numbers up to 9,999 and asking about prices. Students will learn to read and write in Romaji and Hiragana.
Fridays 3:30-4:25pm EST
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
8 weeks for $100
Hiragana Helper
(Online)
Minimum Required Skills
None
This writing supplement is the perfect thing for students who need more instructional guidance to learn to recognize and write the Hiragana alphabet fluently. We will spend time looking at each character, how it is written and how it sounds. Then we will put it in context, writing and reading word that include it.
Not currently scheduled
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
6 weeks for $72
Intermediate Part 1 (Online)
Minimum Required Skills
- Took Advanced Beginner Japanese at Art Play Learn
OR
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Read and write using Hiragana
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Have some experience with Katakana
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Be able to make, read and write in kanji numbers up to 9,999
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Understand how to use the counters for age, money, months, days of the month, and time
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Know how to ask basic information seeking questions and yes/no questions for like/dislike, wellness, dates, days of the week, times, and adverbs
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Change verbs between the infinitive (~u form) and the neutral (~masu form) in the unfinished tense
Thursdays, 3:00pm-3:55pm EST
Students will learn additional basic kanji, how to use describing words, new vocabulary for things and verbs and more.
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
8 weeks for $100
Intermediate Part 6
(Online)
Minimum Required Skills
- Took Intermediate Japanese Part 5
OR
- Working knowledge of hiragana & katakana
- Can use kanji for numbers, days of the week, dates, money, simple objects, prepositions, verbs and family relationships
- Can ask and answer questions using 'desu', 'masu', 'tai', 'u/nai', and 'te' verb forms.
- Can use numbers up to 999,999,999.
- Can use describing words such as colors and sizes
- Can use in-group/out-group family relationships
- Can use prepositions and give directions
- Can talk about where, who, how and when
- Can use counters
This class follows my Intermediate Part 5 class on Outschool. The exact content will be determined by what the enrolled students have studied but will likely include speaking about past events, and the beginnings of storytelling. The focus of this class is to make the transition to expressing one's own thoughts. We will add vocabulary and kanji as we venture into talking about more student driven topics.
Mondays 5:00pm- 5:55pm EST
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
8 weeks for $100
Enrichment and For Credit
For students who are taking this class to only fulfill their own desire to learn Japanese, the enrichment option offers that experience.
For students who are also trying to fulfill a homeschool World Language requirement, the "for credit" option will fulfill this requirement in most states. Please contact me if your state has very specific requirements and I will let you know if I can fulfill them. For credit students will receive a syllabus, graded assignments and assessments and a certificate of completion with covered Standards of Learning and grades notated on the "back". If digital versions of these are not acceptable, please communicate that to me and I can snail mail them to you.
For more information, please contact info@artplaylearn.com
Absolute Beginner Japanese (Online)
Minimum Required Skills
None
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include introducing oneself, asking about personal information, numbers up to 9,999 and asking about prices. Students will learn to read and write in Romaji and Hiragana.
Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm EST
Taught by Meredith Kaunitz
Enrichment
8 weeks for $150
For Credit
8 weeks for $250
Intermediate Japanese (Online)
Minimum Required Skills
- Took Advanced Beginner Japanese at Art Play Learn
OR
- Minimum Required Skills
- Read and write using Hiragana
- Have some experience with Katakana
- Be able to make, read and write in kanji numbers up to 9,999
- Understand how to use the counters for age, money, months, days of the month, and time
- Know how to ask basic information seeking questions and yes/no questions for like/dislike, wellness, dates, days of the week, times, and adverbs
- Change verbs between the infinitive (~u form) and the neutral (~masu form) in the unfinished tense
Wednesdays, 5:00pm-6:30pm EST
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include using basic kanji, expressing dates and times and more.
Enrichment
8 weeks for $150
For Credit
8 weeks for $180
Intermediate Part 6 (Online)
This class is for anyone who took Intermediate Part 4-5 or anyone who meets the minimum skills listed below.
Minimum Skills:
- Working knowledge of hiragana & katakana
- Can use kanji for numbers, days of the week, dates, money, simple objects, prepositions, verbs and family relationships
- Can ask and answer questions using 'desu', 'masu', 'tai', 'u/nai', and 'te' verb forms.
- Can use numbers up to 999,999,999.
- Can use describing words such as colors and sizes
- Can use in-group/out-group family relationships
- Can use prepositions and give directions
- Can talk about where, who, how and when
- Can use counters
All conversations and materials will be written in Japanese syllabary. I do not set a specific curriculum in order to be able to address the needs of each group of students in each section. Material will likely include talking about destinations and modes of transportation, using large numbers and incorporation of many questions already studied such as family relationships
Monday 11:00-12:30
Enrichment
8 weeks for $150
For Credit
8 weeks for $180
Advanced (Online)
This class is the next level up from Advanced Intermediate Part 4.
Minimum required skills:
* ability to read and write in hiragana
* familiarity with katakana
* basic kanji
* knowledge of 'u' form and 'masu' form in unfinished and finished tense, conditionals, potentials and transitive-intransitive verbs
* numbers to 100,000,000
* basic understanding of the use of counters
* knowledge of how to make and answer basic information seeking and yes/no questions
* understanding of how describing words work
* vocabulary including colors, foods, family members, every day usage verbs
* vocabulary for 'too much', 'all the way', 'try'
* ability to express every.../no..../some.../any...
* ability to express decision making, acting on someone or something else, and being acted upon
* ability to use shiru and wakaru appropriately
* knowledge of the ~nagara form and potential form
*knowledge of body parts and expressing injury or sickness
This level will focus more on generating self-motivated speech in Japanese and reading and writing. We will use storytelling techniques, and will start discussing our opinions and feelings. Some advanced grammar will be embedded as will some new vocabulary and new kanji.
Wednesdays 12:00-1:25pm
Enrichment
8 weeks for $150
For Credit
8 weeks for $180
Absolute Beginner Japanese Hawaii Time (Online)
Minimum Required Skills
None
Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include introducing oneself, asking about personal information, numbers up to 9,999 and asking about prices. Students will learn to read and write in Romaji and Hiragana.
Tuesdays 10:00pm-11:30pm EST/4:00pm-5:30pm HST
Taught by Tanya Harris
SPRING SEMESTER (starts early March)
Enrichment
12 weeks for $250
For Credit
12 weeks for $280
Intermediate Part 3 (Online)
Minimum Skills:
Anyone who took Intermediate Part 2
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Read and write using Hiragana
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Have some experience with Katakana
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Be able to make, read and write in kanji numbers up to 9,999
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Understand how to use the counters for age, money, months, days of the month, and time
-
Know how to ask basic information seeking questions and yes/no questions for like/dislike, wellness, dates, days of the week, times, and adverbs
-
Change verbs between the infinitive (~u form) and the neutral (~masu form) in the unfinished tense
-
Change verbs into the ~tai forms, ~mashyou form and ~te form * Use describing words in the affirmative and negative
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Use entry level kanji for describing words and natural objects (tree, moon, sun, mountain, etc)
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Express family relationships with in-group and out-group forms
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Use describing words
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Talk about country names, nationalities and languages
Students will learn additional kanji, how to talk about destinations, how to quote others, and new vocabulary and perhaps more
Tuesdays 3:30-5:00pm EST
Enrichment
8 weeks for $150
For Credit
8 weeks for $180
Advanced Intermediate (Online)
This class is the next level up from Advanced Intermediate Part 2.
Minimum required skills:
* ability to read and write in hiragana
* familiarity with katakana
* basic kanji
* knowledge of 'u' form and 'masu' form in unfinished and finish tense
* numbers to 100,000,000
* basic understaning of the use of counters
* knowledge of how to make and answer basic information seeking and yes/no questions
* understanding of how describing words work
* vocabulary including colors, foods, family members, every day usage verbs
This level will focus on generating self-motivated speech in Japanese. We will use storytelling techniques, will exchange emails and perhaps even snail mail letters, and will start discussing our past, habitual and breaking news life events. Some advanced grammar will be embedded as will some new vocabulary and new kanji.
Thursdays 4:00-5:30pm