Here is the course outline for Japanese.
JLPT N5
This JLPT N5 Syllabus contains an overview of what a student is expected to know at the A1 level.
After completing the JLPT N5 level course, you should be able to accomplish the following:
-> Greet people
-> Talk about yourself
-> Talk about where you live
-> Talk about your family members
-> Talk about your likes and dislikes
-> Engage in a simple buy-and-sell situation
-> Ask about the day, the time and the date
-> Accept and refuse
-> Read simple notices, posters and catalogues
-> Fill in a simple form
-> Write a simple postcard
JLPT N5 Vocabulary Topics
Based on the JLPT N5 Syllabus, here’s a list of JLPT N5 Vocabulary Topics that you are expected to know.
Topics & Vocabulary:
Grammar:
Cultural Content:
Skills Gained:
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JLPT N4
This JLPT N4 Syllabus contains an overview of what a student is expected to know at the JLPT N4 level. Knowledge of three writing systems in Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) is required to take this level.
After completing the JLPT N4 level course, you should be able to accomplish the following:
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Talking about self & others, incl. family – key personal information
- Japanese festivals
- Travel
- Holidays
- Health/illness
- Meetings
- Leisure Time
- Money & shopping
- Studying language
- Socializing
- Transport
- Meeting Friends
- Complimenting someone
- Parties & Socialising
- Leisure time
- Travelling
- Buying Souvenirs
- Shopping
- Lost items
Grammar:
- Revisiting previous level’s grammar
- Attributive sentences
- Offers and suggestions -ましょうか。
- Connect a few actions in one sentence (-て …. -て)
- Continuous: past, present & future -ています
- Permission – Asking permission to do something -ても いいですか ?
- The -ない form (negative verbs)
- Polite forms – please do not -ないでください
- Present Progressive and Habitual Actions
- Preference and Desire -が 好きです (すきです)
- Express desires :verb –tai desu 行きたいです（いきたい）
- Knowledge of three writing systems in Japanese (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) is required to take this level
- Revisiting previous level’s grammar
- Duration expressions
- Compound sentences
- Relative clauses (not only…but…)
- Descriptive adverbials (-く+v, -に+v.)
- Conjunctions
- Modal Perfect
- Wish
- Common collocation
- Language to express opinions, eg. dis/agreement, un/certainty
- Comparatives [-のほうが- より, -が一番 (いちばん)]
- Adjective forms (-くて, – / -で,-)
- Express ability -ことができる
Cultural Content:
- Business outside Tokyo
- Museum in Japan
- Working office in Japan
- Socializing
- Sports in Japan
- Souvenir shopping
- Building rapport with colleagues
- Going to pub (いざかや) and カラオケ(Karaoke)
- Talking about big cities in Japan
- Japanese traditional things
Skills Work:
- Extensive speaking/active practice
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation – keyWrite and Read sentences in Japanese without using Roman
- Alphabet
- Frequency of time expressions
- More extensive word-building
- More extensive word families (noun-verb-adjective-adverb)
- Phrasal verbs
- Invitation
- Wider range of functions – inc. social language, giving advice, making enquiries
- Extensive speaking/active practice
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Read short Japanese texts (800 word vocabulary)
- Write basic Kanji (60 characters)
JLPT N3
JLPT N3
This level of mastery in Japanese exposes the students to more possibilities and topics including: Entertainment, mass media, work, education, school life and routine, the environment, tourism & travel, news, social & political issues, books, generation changes, cities, people, relationships, the arts, technology, health & fitness, social life, night life, national traditions/customs & culture, consumerism, globalisation. The following are the subjects to be covered:
Grammar:
- Revisiting previous level’s grammar
- Duration expressions
- Compound sentences
- Usage of plain forms of verbs (する, しない, した, しなかつた)
- Express personal experiences using “have done ” -しことがある
- Express actions -たり-たり
- Understand the aspect of using dictionary form and た-form – (before doing something and doing something…dictionary form + まえ, た-form +あと)
- Suggestions/Recommendations –ほうがいいです
- Usage of plain form of adjectives and of nouns (おいしい、おいしくない、あめだ、あめではない、べんりだ、べんりではない)
- Modifying noun
- Common idioms
- Common linking words.
Cultural content:
- How to greet when you meet someone again after being apart
- Original Japanese notation rules for writing
- Common signs at a department store
- Popular places in Japan
- Traditional Japanese-style hotel (ryokan)
- Mt. Fuji
- Revisiting previous level’s grammar
- Present/Past
- Duration expressions
- Compound sentences
- Relative clauses (not only…but…)
- Descriptive adverbials (-く+v, -に+v)
- Conjunctions
- Modal perfect
- Describing a change in state-てきました
- Making hypothetical statements/stating the result of an action of event -たら
- Indicating that an action or event has been completed –てしまいます
- Conditional form -ば
- Speaking of natural or habitual results
- Expressing necessity -なければ なりません
- Drinking manner
- Strict manner of taking out the garbage
- Mixing of speech styles -です/ ます plain styles
Skills Work:
- Extensive speaking/active practice
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Read and write essays in Japanese
- Read and write some basic kanji (120 characters)
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Translation from Japanese into English and vice versa
- Writing essays about (250 characters) in Japanese
- Discussion to express your opinions
- Read and write some basic Kanji (160 characters)
- Read Japanese texts (1500 word vocabulary)
JLPT N2
Here’s a list of JLPT N2 Topics that you are expected to know.
Topics & Vocabulary:
- Asking about something you do not understand
- Pointing out something you noticed
- Presenting knowledge you have acquired
- Explaining preparation and procedures
- Making suppositions
- Stating your impression based on how things appear
- Talking about change in everyday life
- Soliciting and stating opinions
- Explaining procedures
- Talking about how facilities are used
- Telling news
- Explaining about Careers
- Asking for Reason or for an Explanation of How a Situation Came to Be
- Talking about Weather and Its Effects
- Talking about Global Warming
- Talking about Enviromental Problems
- Asking Someone to Do Something for You
- Expressing Gratitude for a Service
- Making Excuses
- Talking about Education
- Asking for Permission to Do Something
- Talking about What You Wish Your Spouse / Partner Would Do
- Greeting People; Introducing People
- Expressing Gratitude
- Apologizing
- Leaving Messages
- Giving and Quoting Commands
- Talking about Events
- Engaging in Conversation with Friends
Grammar:
- Expressing suppositions and wondering aloud （-でしょう, だろう, でしょうか, だろうか）
- Expressing impressions (-よう, みたい)
- Describing actions done or to be done in preparation -てお
- Expressing certainty -はず
- Expressing causes of or reasons for situations -ため
- Describing Change: Changed coming into effect/continuous changes -ようになる
- Nominalising sentences -こと.
- Indicating means or attendant circumstances (-て/-で, -ないで/-ずに)
- Describing deliberate effects -てある
- Expressing completion/incompletion of past, present, or future actions (-ている, -て いた)
- Stating decisions (ことに なる, ことにする)
- Describing the actions of giving and receiving services (-てもらう, -てくれる, -てあげる)
- Expressing intention (-う/ようとする)
- Using causative and causative-passive structures (-せる/させる)
- Using causative and causative-passive structures (-せる/させる)
- Honorifics: Basic Patterns and Honorific Verbs
- Leaving and Relaying Messages (- ように言う)
- Using Plain Imperatives: Do and Don’t (-行け)
- Explaining Reasons
- Understanding Written Styles
- Understanding Spoken Styles
Cultural Content:
- Pet ownership in Japan
- Humans and Nature
- Crime and Education
- Life in Japan
- Humans and Nature
- Reason behind customs
- Histories
- Environmental issues
- Crime and Education
- Family and School life in Japan
- Reason behind customs
- Business
- Customs and special occasions
Skills Work:
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Writing essays in Japanese
- Discussion to express your opinions
- Read and write some basic Kanji (200characters)
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Translation from Japanese into English and vice versa
- Writing essays in Japanese
- Discussion to express your opinions
- Read and write some basic Kanji (240 characters)
- Read Japanese texts
- Formal speech and writing of basic patterns
- Extensive listening
- Pronunciation
- Translation from Japanese into English and vice versa
- Writing essays in Japanese
- Discussion to express your opinions
- Read and write some basic Kanji (280 characters)
- Read Japanese texts
- Formal speech and writing of basic patterns
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