This class is the next level up from a year of Advanced Japanese.

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Minimum required skills: 
* ability to read and write in hiragana 
* familiarity with katakana 
* basic kanji 
* knowledge of 'u' form and 'masu' form in unfinished and finished tense, conditionals, potentials and transitive-intransitive verbs
* numbers to 100,000,000 
* basic understanding of the use of counters 
* knowledge of how to make and answer basic information seeking and yes/no questions 
* understanding of how describing words work 
* vocabulary including colors, foods, family members, every day usage verbs 
* vocabulary for 'too much', 'all the way', 'try' 
* ability to express every.../no..../some.../any... 
* ability to express decision making, acting on someone or something else, and being acted upon
* ability to use shiru and wakaru appropriately 
* knowledge of the ~nagara form and potential form 
*knowledge of body parts and expressing injury or sickness

This level will focus on generating self-motivated speech in Japanese and reading and writing. We will use storytelling techniques, discussions, and reading Japanese stories to increase fluency. Some advanced grammar will be embedded as will some new vocabulary and new kanji.

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Taught by Meredith Kaunitz