Beginner Japanese Level 1 (Once a Week)
In this on-going class, students will strengthen abilities to create sentences, become confident in speaking Japanese, and build vocabulary and grammar toward intermediate level. ***Classes start with 4 students
Sachiko
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What's included
1 live meeting
40 mins in-class hours per weekHomework
1-2 hours per week. There will not be homework, but extra practice will be available for most lessons to students outside of class for writing or in digital format.Class Experience
***Each section of the class will require at least 4 students to open. When there aren't enough students to start a class, the starting date will be postponed to the following week. ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 𝟏𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐄 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ★━━━━━━━━━★━━━━━━━━━★ These sections are new, and they will start from Wk1 of 1st semester materials. These sections will be cancelled or postponed if the minimum enrollment of 4 is not met on the dates in parentheses. Consider this class for the alternate option if the class length or the schedule works better. https://outschool.com/classes/9f8db22c-9c1e-4628-ae19-d06b2cb83967/schedule ★━━━━━━━━━★━━━━━━━━━★ Wk1 Aug.14th-18th // Introduction to Japanese writing systems, self-introduction Wk2 Aug. 21th-25th // Different sounds in Japanese Wk3 Aug. 28th- Sep. 1st // Greetings Wk4 Sep. 11th-15th // What do you like? Wk 5 Sep. 18th-22nd // What grade are you in? Wk 6 Sep. 25th-29th // Where are you from? What language do you speak? Wk 7 Oct. 2nd-6th // Let's count in Japanese! Wk8 Oct. 9th-13th // Weather condition Wk9 Oct. 16th-20th // Weather temperature Wk10 Oct. 23rd-27th// Introduction to adjectives Wk11 Oct. 30th-Nov. 3rd// Conjugating adjectives Wk12 Nov. 6th-10th / // Combining adjectives ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// 𝟐𝐧𝐝 𝐒𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐒𝐂𝐇𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐋𝐄 ///////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// ★━━━━━━━━━★━━━━━━━━━★ The current sections will go on to have 2nd semester schedule once the 1st semester materials are covered. As some sections have started later than last August, each sections are on different schedule. I will postpone the class to the following week until we have at least 4 students. ★━━━━━━━━━★━━━━━━━━━★ Wk1 Jan. 8th-12th // New Year's Tradition, Greeting Phrases for the New Year Wk2 Jan. 15th-19th // Places to go in your neighborhood Wk3 Jan. 22nd-26th // How do you get to places? Wk4 Jan. 29th-Feb. 2nd // Invitation to do something Wk5 Feb. 5th-9th // Do you have this in your classroom? Wk6 Feb. 12th-16th // Counters, Using counters to give descriptions. Wk7 Feb. 19th - Feb.23rd // Where is Pochi? Preposition for Locations Wk8 Feb. 26th - Mar. 1st // Where is my headphone? Preposition for Locations ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: How is your class structured? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: We will meet in zoom for 40 minutes once a week. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: How will you teach? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: On zoom through Outschool platform. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: What's your teaching style? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Easy-going, but perhaps because of the subject I teach, most students are really respectful, which I truly appreciate. ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: How much will learners get to interact with you and each other (mention specifics like: lecture, games, slides, video clips, discussion)? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Learning a foreign language is all about interaction!! There will be interactive class activities for informal assessments. Pair activities/assignments are designed to develop each student's 21st century skills such as collaboration, communication, creativity, and critical thinking. If you are a home school student who is looking for a formal assignment grades, I will be happy to work with you (but I need to know what is expected). ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: Any required experience or knowledge learners need? ::::::::::::::::::::::::::: This is a beginner's class, but students will learn hiragana outside of class on their own with recommended materials.
Learning Goals
Students will strengthen their ability to create with language, converse on familiar topics that are commonly introduced in beginner levels, and build vocabulary and grammar toward novice-mid level.
Other Details
Parental Guidance
I have Quizlet and Gimkit vocabulary games students can use outside of class to study vocabulary from the class.
For Quizlet, students will need to have their own account to have access to my private folder of vocabulary.
We use Gimkit to play vocabulary games or help students with learning hiragana from time to time. Students will go to https://www.gimkit.com/join and type in a class code to join the game together with everyone in the class. No apps or anything else is required.
Supply List
If you use an iPad, please learn how to use split screen function, as students will work in writing or answering questions on interactive exercises while I hold the class with zoom.
External Resources
In addition to the Outschool classroom, this class uses:
Teacher expertise and credentials
Texas Teaching Certificate in Foreign Language
Bachelor's Degree in Art and Design from University of North Texas
Certified teacher for Japanese (EC-12), Mandarin(EC-12) and Art(EC-12). I grew up speaking Japanese, Mandarin and Taiwanese, so I have no problem mixing them up to meet your need. Many years of freelance tutoring experience for Japanese and Mandarin have helped me teaching all levels of Japanese including Pre-AP and AP classes at my former employment at a public high school.Reviews
Live Group Class
$20
weekly1x per week
40 min
Completed by 138 learners
Live video meetings
Ages: 9-14
4-8 learners per class
