LFU:online

Prerequisites: knowledge of Hiragana; the learner can introduce him-/herself and others and can provide personal information and interact in a simple way.

Goal: At this level the learner can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and basic sentences aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type: shopping, visiting somebody, understanding an invitation; can interact in a simple way provided the other person speaks clearly and slowly and is prepared to help.

Topics:

accommodation and a visit; hobbies and leisure time; in a city; shopping

Linguistic Goals:

to give information about one’s accommodation/ hobbies; to make an appointment; to indicate the way; to express a wish, to express preferences

Structural Goals:

Katakana and Hiragana writing systems and to learn additional Kanji-ideograms; “X ga arimasu”, “X ga imasu” – to describe that something/ someone exists; “X ga suki desu” – to express one’s preferences; adjectives and participles (te-forms) – to describe where someone lives; “tai desu”- to express one’s intention; “mashita” – to talk about past events

written and oral

midterm test (testing of listening comprehension, speaking and Katakana syllabary) and final test (testing of writing, listening and reading comprehension and speaking/dialogues)

Marugoto: Japanese Language and Culture, Starter A1- Coursebook for communicative language activities, Katsudo and Rikai, Lektion 7, 8, 11-18

Katsudo: ISBN 978-3-87548-707-7

Rikai: ISBN 978-3-87548-708-4