session 1 what is japanese?
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Beginner's course aims Introduction of 3 fundamental Japanese charactersTRANSCRIPT
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Beginners’ Course Aims
- Speaking basic conversation
- Reading/Writing basic Japanese letters
(e.g. Hiragana and hopefully Katakana)
- Introducing a part of Japanese cultures
- Making friends who have the same interests
- Getting your partner of language exchange
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Sharing your experiences/interests(For general students)-Name-Nationality-What do you study?
-Why do you want to learn Japanese?-Have you learnt Japanese before? How long?-What made you have an interests in Japan?
-What do you hope to gain from this class?
(For JP students)-Name-Where are from in Japan? -What do you study?
-What does make you feel happy to have been born Japanese?
-Introduce what is like your hometown
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What is Japanese?
Japanese language uses 3 characters, besides the Arabic Numerals and the Roman alphabet.
Hiragana(ひらがな)
Katakana(カタカナ)
Kanji(漢字)
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ノルウェイの森(1987)村上春樹
“「私のヘアスタイル、好き?」「すごく良いよ」
「どれくらい良い?」と緑が訊いた。
「世界中の森の木が全部倒れるくらい素晴らしいよ」
と僕は言った。”
“「どれくらい私のこと好き?」と緑が訊いた。
「世界中のジャングルの虎がみんな溶けてバターになって
しまうくらい好きだ」と僕は言った。”
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Norwegian Wood (1987)Haruki Murakami
“Like my hairstyle?’ she asked.‘It’s great.’
‘How great?’
‘Great enough to knock down all the forests of the world.’ I said.”
“How much do you love me?’ Midori asked.
‘Enough to melt all the tigers in the world to butter,’ I said.”
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Kanji漢字
- Most complicated character in Japanese
- Chinese origin words
- Exists over 40,000 kanji
- About 2,000 are commonly used in Japan
- Each one has a meaning
- Can have many meanings frequently
- Content words, such as nouns, adjectives and verbs
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Hiraganaひらがな
- The basic Japanese phonetic characters
- There are 46 hiragana symbols
- Represents every sound
- Do not have meaning
- Creating grammatical structure, such as particles, conjunctions, prefixes, suffixes, and many adverbs
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Katakanaカタカナ
- Represents the same set of phonetic sounds as Hiragana
- Phonetic characters for foreign words
- Onomatopoeia (seen in manga)
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