This course introduces students to the Japanese language, culture and customs. It begins with the learning of the Japanese Standard Writing System, which is a combination of Hiragana, Katakana, and Kanji. Basic greetings and sentence structures are taught in a progressive manner from recognition to guided and independent reproduction. Apart from grammar explanations, the tasks incorporated in the course include exercises in listening comprehension, reading comprehension and conversational practice through role-play activities. Approximately 40 sentence patterns and 300 words/phrases are covered under this introductory syllabus. A comprehensive range of teaching aids are used to engage students in interactive learning.
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Grade : A-
Comments:
TLDR, if your seniors have ever told you that Korean and Japanese class have a lot of smurfs, then it probably is. Since most of the people who took the module are either a fan of anime, Japanese culture, or somewhat related to that, they got more exposure, so if you’re starting from ground zero, prepare to work hard.Exercise-wise, there was not a lot of activities done in-class other than teaching you new materials (well at least for me), but homework can be overwhelming if you do not finish it during the prescribed time (there is deadline for the NTULearn homework btw as well as the written [physical] one). I would say the teaching is ok, but the competition in class is not. During my time in class (after quizzes and exams), it was easy for other people to score high and did pretty well. It was only during listening test and oral test near the end of the module that determines whether your score remained an A+ or B+.
June 6, 2022
