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5-star classes taken by more than 700 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.

Absolute Beginner

Minimum Required Skills

No experience needed!

Price for 12 classes: $220 (Elective)

$250 (Credit)

Wednesdays, 10-11:25

recommended age range: teens

Students will learn to speak, understand, read and write Japanese. Material will include introducing oneself, asking information seeking questions and yes/no questions, and numbers from 0-9,999. Students will learn Romaji and Hiragana.

Advanced Intermediate

Advanced Intermediate Japanese

12 weekly 85-minute classes

Enrichment: $220

For credit $250

Wednesdays 1:30-2:55pm

This class is the next level up from Intermediate Part 6.

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.

Intermediate

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

Price for 12 classes: $220 (Elective)

$250 (Credit)

Thursdays, 4:00-5:30

recommended age range: teens

Students will learn additional basic kanji, how to use describing words, new vocabulary for things and verbs and how to talk about family relationships.

Enrichment vs 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.

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