JPN 211 - Second Year Japanese I

1. Identify different styles of speech at different levels of politeness.
2. Recognize vocabulary related to weather, discussing future goals, gift giving traditions, banking and postal service systems.
3. Identify appropriate modals for expressing opinions, intentions, plans, obligations, reasons, and prohibition.
4. Distinguish between intransitive and transitive verbs.
5. Recognize kanji characters introduced in the course, different parts of kanji characters, and their meanings.
6. Reproduce kanji characters introduced in the course.
7. Interpret cultural and historical perspectives for how social attitudes and value judgments manifest in vocabulary, expressions, and customs.