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.

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Taught by Tanya Harris

Minimum Required Skills  

- Took Not-so-absolute Beginner Japanese at Art Play Learn 
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- Can introduce themselves 
- Can read and write in Hiragana 
- Can read and write in Katakana 
- Can count to 1,000 in Japanese 
- Can ask and answer yes/no questions 
- Can ask for prices 
- Can use counters for age, money and people 
- Can use adverbs of frequency

Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material may include using basic kanji, expressing dates and times and more.

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz

This class is for anyone who took Intermediate Japanese Part 5 or who meets the minimum skills below.

Minimum Skills:

*can read and write in Hiragana and Katakana 
*knows ~masu, ~u, ~te and ~tai forms in the unfinished tense 
*numbers up to 9,999 
*telling time 
*talking about dates and days of the week

*talking about family relationships

*using words that describe

*using prepositions and prepositional phrases

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.

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This class is the next level up from Advanced Intermediate Part 4.

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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.

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz

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.

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz

Minimum Required Skills

- Took Intermediate Japanese Part 4

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- 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

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz

Advanced Intermediate Japanese Part 2 

 This class is the next level up from Advanced Intermediate. 

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, 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.

This class is the next level up from a year of Advanced Japanese.

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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 on generating self-motivated speech in Japanese and reading and writing. We will use storytelling techniques, discussions, and reading Japanese stories to increase fluency. Some advanced grammar will be embedded as will some new vocabulary and new kanji.

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz