Japanese Beginners
Beginners Level 1 – Complete Beginners
Book –Japanese For Busy People -1
Beginners Level 2 - Beginners Continuation
Book –Japanese For Busy People -1
Outcomes:
 Introducing oneself- name, job,
Nationality etc.
 Numbers, telling time, date, day of
the week, and year.
 Going shopping – asking prices, sizes,
colours etc.
 Taking tax, bus, and train
Outcomes:
 Describing one’s daily routines
 Describing one’s and other’s family
 Describing location
 Making plans
 Asking and giving directions
 Making suggestions to do something
 Inviting someone to do something
Language Focus:
 Read and write all Hiragana including
modified ones
 Introduction to Japanese particles 1
– ‘wa’, ‘ka’, ‘no’, ‘mo’, ‘o’ and their
usages
 Japanese pronouns and noun
modifiers
 Various interrogatives
Language Focus:
 Read and write all Katakana including
modified ones
 Various adjectives and their usages
 Introduction to motion verbs and
their conjugation
 Existence of people and things
(There is/are~)
 Particles 2- especially focusing on
particles for locations, methods, and
directions
Beginners Level 3
Book –Japanese For Busy People -1
Outcomes:
 Describing people and things
 Talking about one’s feelings
 Expressing gratitude
 Accepting and refuging offers
 Receiving and giving complements
Language Focus:
 Consolidate the uses of Hiragana and
Katakana
 Introduction to adjectives and their
usages
 Particles 3 – more usages
 Forming ‘-te’ form verbs and their
usages:
1) ‘Please do~’ sentences, and
2) describe one action followed by
another