UCL CENTRE FOR LANGUAGES &
INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION
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Japanese Level 4
Prerequisite for entry
Successful completion of level 3+
Term duration
10 x 2-hour classes.
Aims and Objectives
The aim of the course is to enable students to communicate in a wide range of daily
situations and understand Japanese in many practical issues. Students will be given more
sophisticated written texts after their abilities of reading and writing are further developed.
Cultural awareness and knowledge of Japanese life style will be further developed during the
course.
Functions
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Telling how you would like something to be done
Talking about a hypothetical situations
Giving requests at beauty salon or barber shop
Conveying information one has obtained from another source
How to cope with a situation
Course Content: Main topics/themes to be covered
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Saving money
Office supplies and tools
Hair style
Protecting the earth
Ideal partner
Emergency situations
Roots of Katakana words
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Onomatopoeia (
Discipline
How to make a formal telephone call
How to write a formal letter
擬音語・擬態語
Linguistic Structures/ Phonetics
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Irregular rules of the pronunciation of Spoken Japanese
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Grammar
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するために、
（し）そうだ
すぎる
やすい にくい
ばあい（場合）は、
のに、
ところだ
はずだ
そうだ
ようだ
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(conjecture)
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(conjecture)
The Causative form
Honorific Expressions ( Respectful / Humble/ Polite Expressions)
漢字（かんじ）
Learning Resources
Books
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Course book: Minna no Nihongo (shokyu 2) (Lesson 42 – Lesson 50) published by 3A
Corporation
Other material: Minna no Nihongo 2 Translation & Grammatical Notes (Lesson 42 –
Lesson 50) published by 3A Corporation
Kihon kanji 500 Vol. 2 published by Bonjinsha Co.,Ltd
Bilingual Dictionaries
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Online dictionary
Electric dictionary SHARP e-dictionary
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