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Japanese for Beginners

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17 sessions

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This series ended on April 28, 2022. All 1:1 and group chats related to this series are disabled 7 days after the last session.

About

Welcome to the series! I have decided to change up the way we will be doing this to make it easier for me to organize and for students to understand what we are doing each week. Here's the new format: 1. Each week, I will post assignments both to our classroom in Duolingo, as well as to the group chat in our schoolhouse.world page. Please try to complete these before the assigned due dates. 2. On Wednesdays, we will go through some Duolingo lessons as a group. Afterwards, we will practice what we learned in those lessons via conversation. 3. On Saturdays, we will continue to practice what we learned in those lessons via conversation. Please sign up for a Duolingo account, and join our classroom here: www.duolingo.com/classroom/kvgaju I will see you on Wednesday!

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Angelina D 🇺🇸

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Freshman at the University of Utah interested in tech, natural sciences, and creative writing. If you have any questions related to high school CS, Japanese, or physics, shoot me a message!

Schedule

✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY

Right now, we are basically starting over with a new, better organized format, so you can join even if you haven't come to any previous sessions!

SESSION 1

13

Mar

SESSION 1

Orientation

Orientation

Sun 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTCMar 13, 10:00 PM - 11:00 PM UTC

Please fill out this survey before attending, if you haven't already: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10XYEZPElE8cZAigp8CcpQ8DciLY9DTQsrTNB0L68bi4/edit It will help me to gauge how to structure the course! I am planning on teaching some basic expressions (hello, goodbye, my name is x, etc.). If, however, everyone is already familiar with those, we can move on to some more basic expressions like (noun is adjective, and noun is noun), and learn some basic vocabulary.
SESSION 2

16

Mar

SESSION 2

Office Hours

Office Hours

Wed 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM UTCMar 16, 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM UTC

This is a Q/A session. If you have any questions about Japanese, or want study tips, or just want to try to practice talking with me in Japanese, come on in!
SESSION 3

17

Mar

SESSION 3

Enrichment

Enrichment

Thu 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM UTCMar 17, 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM UTC

I am going to explain the basic structure of the Japanese language, and teach you some Hiragana (one of the Japanese alphabets.)
SESSION 4

18

Mar

SESSION 4

Enrichment

Enrichment

Fri 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 18, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

We will continue to learn and practice Hiragana.
SESSION 5

19

Mar

SESSION 5

Enrichment

Enrichment

Sat 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 19, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

We will continue to learn and practice Hiragana. Depending on where people are with this, we might be able to move on to basic grammar.
SESSION 6

20

Mar

SESSION 6

Enrichment

Enrichment

Sun 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 20, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

The final Hiragana lesson/practice session (of course, if people are still struggling, we might do more of them). We will do a bunch of reading practice exercises. Also, we will use a hiragana stroke order diagram to practice trying to transcribe a bunch of English words into Hiragana.
SESSION 7

21

Mar

SESSION 7

Other Topics

Other Topics

Mon 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 21, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

Depending on where people are with Hiragana, we will either review Hiragana or study some basic grammar and vocabulary.
SESSION 8

22

Mar

SESSION 8

Review

Review

Tue 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 22, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

Today, we will review some topics I covered in one of the past sessions: how to say "noun is noun", "noun is adjective", "noun is not noun", and "noun is not adjective", and how to turn all of those expressions into questions, i.e. "Is the noun adjective?" After I teach each of the rules, we will put it into practice by making sentences.
SESSION 9

24

Mar

SESSION 9

Other Topics

Other Topics

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 24, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

Today, we will go over how to put "noun is noun" and "noun is adjective" type sentences into the past tense, and practice doing it a lot.
SESSION 10

26

Mar

SESSION 10

Other Topics

Other Topics

Sat 1:00 AM - 1:40 AM UTCMar 26, 1:00 AM - 1:40 AM UTC

Today, I will introduce the formal way to make sentences with verbs. For instance, "the cat sits", or "I sleep." I will also show you how to bring those verbs into the past tense.
SESSION 11

31

Mar

SESSION 11

Other Topics

Other Topics

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCMar 31, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

We will review topics from past sessions, and continue to learn verb conjugations.
SESSION 12

7

Apr

SESSION 12

Other Topics

Other Topics

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCApr 7, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

We will review topics from past sessions, and continue to learn verb conjugations.
SESSION 13

14

Apr

SESSION 13

Orientation

Orientation

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCApr 14, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

This is the first lesson that uses the new format. Here's what we'll be doing: 1. Everyone will make an account on Duolingo. (For privacy reasons, please do not use your full name on Duolingo.) If you have trouble with this, please let me know and I will help you. 2. (optional) Join my classroom here on Duolingo so that you can see weekly asisgnments: www.duolingo.com/classroom/kvgaju 3. We will go through lessons on Duolingo together. Because I have been told by many students that they still don't feel comfortable enough with hiragana to read it without romanization, we will start with Hiragana 1. :) Please see my post in the group chat for the roadmap/course schedule!
SESSION 14

18

Apr

SESSION 14

Other Topics

Other Topics

Mon 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCApr 18, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

This week, we are focusing on mastering hiragana. In order to do that, we will do reading practice together, and play a kahoot game.
SESSION 15

21

Apr

SESSION 15

Other Topics

Other Topics

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCApr 21, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

Q/A session. Bring questions! We will also practice simple conversation in Japanese.
SESSION 16

25

Apr

SESSION 16

Other Topics

Other Topics

Mon 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM UTCApr 25, 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM UTC

Today, we will be going over some basic grammatical particles in Japanese. Here are the lecture slides that will accompany today's lesson: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vh_RBeL26uCnRwE2QrKKugnkUHcKw1dBu4r-CsUORWQ/edit#slide=id.g12224147db6_1_64
SESSION 17

28

Apr

SESSION 17

Other Topics

Other Topics

Thu 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTCApr 28, 1:00 AM - 2:00 AM UTC

Q/A session. Bring questions! We will also practice simple conversation in Japanese.

Public Discussion

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Mar 13 - Apr 28

7 weeks

40 - 60 mins

/ session

SCHEDULE

Thursdays

1:00AM