NHEG’s eight-week Japanese course offers the opportunity to take a live course for one hour, twice a week and is open for middle school to adult students who want to learn to speak and write Japanese. The live courses in three levels will include a bi-weekly vocabulary list and grammar for forming sentences such as questions, expressing interests and so much more. This is a great beginning course for anyone who wants to learn Japanese but doesn’t know where to start.

The courses include the following:

Beginning Japanese Level 1 – for students with little or no prior knowledge of Japanese. In Level 1, students will learn Japanese pronunciation, basic greetings, sentence structure and vocabulary to be able to make statements about themselves and their environment at home and school. The goal of the course is to be able to give a self-introduction speech around one minute in length during the final lesson, which is a presentation.

Beginning Japanese Level 2 – for students who have completed Level 1 or a previous Japanese class with NHEG, or who have studied elsewhere and are able to greet others and can give a short self-introduction (describing one’s age, occupation, year in school, nationality, etc.) in Japanese. In Level 2, students will learn how to talk about changes to themselves and their environment and their likes and dislikes using structures like past tense and prepositions. The goal of the course is to be able to give a speech one to two minutes in length about a childhood memory or past experience during the final lesson, which is a presentation.

Beginning Japanese Level 3 – for students who have completed Level 2 or multiple Japanese classes previously with NHEG, or who have studied elsewhere and are able to ask and answer questions about themselves and their daily schedule. In Level 3, students will learn to compare and describe objects, their hobbies and abilities using adjectives. To encourage more natural conversation, topics outside of “textbook Japanese,” like body language and colloquialisms, will also be introduced. The goal of the course is to be able to give a one to two minute persuasive speech about why the student thinks an activity, item or travel destination is a good or bad idea, during the final lesson, which is a presentation.

The Japanese Writing Course is for students from all levels who do not yet read or write Japanese. This is a pre-recorded course introducing students to the Japanese writing system with its three scripts: hiragana, katakana and kanji, using step-by-step videos and printable worksheets to practice writing hiragana and katakana. Reading is encouraged as memorization is achieved at the student’s own pace. This course is great for a self-motivated beginning student who wants to learn to write the two phonetic scripts before moving on to kanji.

Taken together, the live course and pre-recorded writing course will provide beginning students of Japanese with a well-rounded knowledge base of the language – a great foundation for further Japanese study.

Pre-Recorded Courses

Learning Japanese – Beginner Level 1

Learning Japanese – Beginner Level 2

Learning Japanese – Beginner Level 3

Japanese Writing Course 

• Japanese Class Level 1
• Japanese Class Level 2
• Japanese Class Level 3

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