Level 6 - By the end of this course, you will have mastered the basics of the Japanese language, both grammar and vocabulary; you will have learnt enough either to go off to a country where Japanese is spoken and pick it up there, or possibly to embark upon more formal study.
Unit 1 - The accident - You will be able to use
Japanese to describe an accident and also offer help; you will also
revise a lot of the material covered at the previous level.
Unit 2 - Using a gadget - You will be able to talk about simple operations in Japanese, asking and describing how things work.
Unit 3 - Student days - You will be able to talk about your education and describe what you used to do when you were younger.
Unit 4 - Murder at sea! - You will be able to talk about travel by sea, and about a series of events in the past.
Unit
5 - If I won the lottery… - You will be able to use your Japanese to
speculate on what you would do if something else were to happen.
Unit
6 - Parents and children - You will be able to discuss family
relationships, and you will know how to give advice and make
recommendations in Japanese.
Unit 7 - The world of art - You
will be able to describe pictures or photos in Japanese, and also talk
about things happening in the distant past.
Unit 8 - Lives of
the famous - You will be able to understand and give descriptions of
people’s lives in Japanese, and also talk about the lives of famous
stars.
Unit 9 - Reading material - You will be able to talk
about books and newspaper articles which you’ve read, and begin to
understand passages of written Japanese; you will also be better
equipped to make intelligent guesses about meanings.
Unit 10
- Your country and mine - You will be able to make comparisons between
countries, and you will also have looked at some of the harder points
of Japanese grammar not covered in these courses, so that you can
recognise them in the future.
(Please note that the information here may change slightly, since we
make ongoing revisions to our course material in the light of client
feedback, and may also adjust it to suit the needs of particular
classes.)