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カール先生
CARL SULARTE
Course
Overview
JAPANESE 101

POINTS FOR DISCUSSION

01 Writing Systems and Pronunciation

02 Basic Vocabulary

03 Grammar- Beginner

04 Speaking and Listening

 Course Flow

PRELIM MIDTERM PRE-FINALS FINALS

WRITING SYSTEMS BASIC BASIC VOCABULARY AND
VOCABULARY AND GRAMMAR BASIC VOCABULARY AND SPEAKING AND LISTENING
GRAMMAR
GRAMMAR

JAPANESE 101
 Course Outline

Module 1: Japanese Writing System

Module 2: Introduction to Japanese Grammar- Particles
Module 3: Words that point
Module 4: Verbs in present/future tenses
Module 5: Describing where things are and past tense of verbs
Module 6: Adjectives
Module 7: Informal
WHY STUDY
JAPANESE??
ANIME, MANGA etc?
GREET
INGS
あいさつ
挨拶
SELF INTRO
Ohayou good morning
gozaimasu

Konnichiwa good afternoon/hello

Konbanwa good evening

Hajimemashite
nice to meet you
Watashi no namae wa ___ desu.
my name is ______
Yoroshiku onegaishimasu
please be nice to me
 USEFUL WORDS IN CLASS
Kiritsu everybody stand to attention
Rei everybody bow and say the greeting
Chaku seki everybody be seated

Hajimemashou Let's begin!

sumimasen, mou ichido onegai shimasu

Could you repeat that, please?

hai, wakarimashita! wakarimasen!

understood! i don't understand
 WRITING SYSTEM
The Japanese writing system is comprised of three main written
scripts:

(1) Hiragana (for native Japanese words)

(2) Katakana (for foreign/loaned words)

(3)Kanji (for words orginally from Chinese)

 ひらがな
HIRAGANA & KATAKANA
In syllables Easy to learn
カタカナ
Represents a set of phonetic sounds Will also teach you the pronunciation of
almost all sounds in Japanese

KANJI 漢字
2,000 Characters A must for Japanese
You need to learn to reach adult fluency
comprehension level.
Newspaper is written 70% Kanji
HIRAGANA ひらがな
KATAKANA カタカナ
KANJI 漢字
ローマ字
others:
ROMAJI
romanization of the

振り仮名
Japanese written language

FURIGANA
a Japanese reading aid, consisting of smaller
kana, or syllabic characters, printed next to a
kanji or other character to indicate its
pronunciation.
SAMPLE WRITTEN TEXT

私はフィリピンから来ました
わたし き
SAMPLE WRITTEN TEXT

私はフィリピンから来ました
わたし き

watashi wa Firipin kara kimashita

I came from the Philippines*

HIRAGANA
KATAKANA
KANJI

ROMAJI
FURIGANA
PRONUNCIATION
SAMPLE
WORDS

INTONATION (HIGH OR LOW)

ANY
QUESTIONS?
CARL SULARTE

CARLJOHN.SULARTE@USTP.EDU.PH