This is the first quarter of a year-long course. Students must have had a full year of college-level Japanese and be familiar with the grammar and first 72 kanji characters covered in our beginning textbook. It is recommended that those who have taken the summer immersion program enroll in Beginning Japanese. Students will learn new sentence structures, verb forms and vocabulary so they can function in a variety of situations. Classroom activities include oral presentations, learning kanji and reading short stories. Japanese culture and life are discussed throughout the course.

This is the first quarter of a year-long course designed for students who have never studied Japanese before or those who have taken less than a full year of college-level Japanese. Students will learn how to function in Japanese in everyday situations by learning useful expressions and basic sentence structures. They will also learn hiragana letters. Daily practice with the CDs is required. Japanese culture and life will be discussed throughout the course.