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Japanese I

Kanji character for Red.

Kanji from study materials. (Illustration by Carrene Winter Tracy. Used with permission.)

Instructor(s)

MIT Course Number

21F.501 / 21F.551 / 21F.571

As Taught In

Fall 2009

Level

Undergraduate / Graduate

Course Features

Course Description

This course covers Japanese: The Spoken Language Lessons 1 through 6, providing opportunities to acquire basic skills for conversation, reading and writing. The program emphasizes active command of Japanese, not passive knowledge. The goal is not simply to study the grammar and vocabulary, but to improve the ability to use Japanese accurately and appropriately with fluency. Students will learn 56 Kanji characters in this course, as well as introducing Hiragana and Katakana.

Archived Versions

Nagaya, Yoshimi, Masami Ikeda-Lamm, and Ikue Shingu. 21F.501 Japanese I, Fall 2009. (MIT OpenCourseWare: Massachusetts Institute of Technology), https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/foreign-languages-and-literatures/21f-501-japanese-i-fall-2009 (Accessed). License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA


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