Description:

Continues JAPN& 222 (prev JAPAN 202). Prerequisite: JAPN& 222 (prev JAPAN 202) or permission of instructor.

Outcomes:

After completing this class, students should be able to:

• Read 61 new kanji characters
• Talk modestly about one’s own actions
• Express one action preceded by the negative of another action
• Use embedded questions such as “I don’t know who/when, etc.” and “I don’t remember what/whether, etc.”
• Name a thing which one thinks is unfamiliar to the listener
• Talk about an action which is easy to do or difficult to do
• Ask and give directions to a place
• Express unpleasant experiences
• Talk about a state resulting from someone’s action
• Talk about an event which takes place in the middle of another event
• Describe the action of changing something to another state
• Express what one wants a friend to do and not to do
• Describe actions making someone do something (against their wishes)
• Describe actions letting someone do something (according to their wishes)
• Use a command (teacher to student, parent to child)
• Give conditional advice
• Talk about resemblances
• Discuss an action one was made to do or forced to do
• Talk about what one decides to do
• Talk about one’s decision to do something as a regular practice
• Ask how to do something
• Identify common Japanese emoticons used in e-mail