Beginner's Japanese II Flex Class

ようこそみなさん！
     Welcome everyone to Beginners Japanese 2!  In this flex course, we will continue to learn the basics of speaking, reading, and writing as we dive into writing systems, vocabulary, and grammar!  This course is designed to teach students all the grammar material that would be covered up through the Japanese Language Proficiency Test's rudimentary level, the JLPT-N5.  

     Students will learn new grammar concepts through twice weekly, video lessons posted in the classroom.  Students will be asked to interact with the videos (practice writing and repeating Japanese words and phrases).  Subsequently, students will also have homework responses where they can practice writing or upload a spoken recording!  Students will be able to interact with both the teacher and other students in the section this way!  

     As students interact with the course content, such as by posting their Japanese written or spoken responses to various prompts, the teacher will respond with short video recordings encouraging the students and showing them other tips to improve their Japanese grammar, writing, and pronunciation.  At several key points in the class, the students in the course will have a project where they must collaborate to create a short and very simple Japanese story.  This will require creativity in communication as students will have to use the vocabulary and grammar they have at each level.  The teacher will help guide the process, as well as give tips to make the Japanese flow better and sound more natural.  

     Additionally, students will be enrolled in my flashcard course where they will review both words and grammar concepts we are learning in class.  This is an important time commitment for the course; I ask that students study between 15-20 minutes a day, 5-6 days a week through the flashcard course.  I will be able to monitor their progress through the flashcard app.  

The curriculum below focuses on verb grammar, but we will be learning nouns, particles, and other bits of grammar throughout the class :)

Week 1: We will cover continuous form, stative form, and new adverbs.
Week 2: We will cover potential form verbs, as well as begin talking about various forms of duty.
Week 3: We will cover other forms to talk about duty, and we will learn an ascensive conditional form. 
Week 4: We will cover how to give and ask for permission as well as discuss other negative verb forms and some of their specific uses.
Week 5: We will discuss spatial/temporal phrases as well as learn how to put transitive verbs into stative form (combination aspect).
Week 6: We will cover various uses of the Japanese postposition から, as well as begin an introduction to adjective grammar.
Week 7: We will cover various adjective grammar, as well as grammar related to the copula です.
Week 8: We will continue to cover various adjective forms and forms of the copula, including 〜て form for both.
Week 9: We will cover how to turn adjectives into adverbs and nouns.
Week 10: We will cover the various complexities of using numbers in a Japanese sentence.
Week 11: We will learn how to create comparisons (i.e. more than, less than, better, etc.)
Week 12: We will cover several remaining particles and conjunctions.  Additionally we will review katakana and learn how to turn verbs into adjectives!