Beginning Japanese - Textbook 1

Beginning Japanese will teach you how to:

• read and write all hiragana and katakana
• read and recognize 150 kanji
• use Japanese to describe basic details of your own life, including family, school, hobbies, likes and dislikes, and daily activities
• answer questions in Japanese about your daily life with low-level to mid-level fl uency
• use Japanese to ask a friend about his/her family and daily life, and invite them to join you in an activity such as shopping
• describe a person or a situation using a variety of adjectives in Japanese
• skim and scan written Japanese passages for important content and meaning
• respond to short written communications, such as e-mail messages, in Japanese
• make a short oral presentation in Japanese about a hobby or a recent event
• talk at a basic level about Japanese geography, history, and culture