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Japanese
Save Japanese as a language-learning interest while level-specific, reviewed instruction is developed.
Current availability
The subject-specific curriculum is authored but not yet published for completion. Learners may inspect its scope and learning design now. Start, grading, and completion remain unavailable until every listed gate passes.
- qualified review approval is required
- reviewer identity, qualification, evidence, and approval date are required
- japanese-a1-dialogues: required audio asset is not ready
- japanese-a1-pronunciation: required audio asset is not ready
What this course establishes
- Exchange basic greetings appropriate to a simple situation
- Give and understand a short supported self-introduction
- Ask for repetition, slower speech, or a Japanese expression when understanding breaks down
Entry knowledge
- No prior Japanese required
- Ability to read or use an accessible alternative for short text
Scope boundaries
- Introductory A1-oriented interaction only; not fluency, interpretation, translation, JLPT or JFT-Basic certification, literacy mastery, or professional-language qualification
Fastest competency route
No fluency or fastest-hour claim; acceleration depends on demonstrated listening, speaking, reading, writing, and interaction competence rather than memorized romanization.
- Pass script-recognition, listening, pronunciation, and interaction diagnostics after approved audio exists
- Complete greeting, introduction, and communication-repair performances
- Correct meaning, register, script, and interaction errors in a final portfolio
Full self-paced route
- Greetings, writing systems, and sound-awareness lesson with qualified-speaker audio
- Identity and self-introduction lesson
- Communication-repair lesson
- Interaction portfolio, feedback, revision, and final assessment
Lesson and assessment map
あいさつ・文字・音 — greetings, writing, and sound awareness
Exchange basic greetings, distinguish the roles of the three writing systems, and preserve meaningful sound length in supported phrases.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
はじめまして — a supported self-introduction
Give and understand a short introduction containing a name and place of origin while interpreting formulaic expressions by function.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
すみません、よくわかりません — repairing understanding
State non-understanding, ask for repetition or slower speech, and ask how to say an expression in Japanese.
4 questions: recall, application, judgment, and error correction.
Required applied assignment
A1 Japanese introductory interaction portfolio
Create three short Japanese interactions—greeting, self-introduction, and communication repair—with script, accessible reading support, functional English meanings, situational notes, and revision. Listening and pronunciation scoring remain unavailable until qualified-speaker audio is approved.
- Situation-matched greeting exchange
- Self-introduction with opening, name, origin, and closing
- Repair exchange using non-understanding, a matched request, and confirmation
- Japanese script with accessible reading support and English functional meaning
- Pronunciation rehearsal notes tied to approved audio once available
- Revision memo correcting a script, meaning, register, or interaction problem
Passing standard: 80 of 100 points, with substantive revision required.
Continue after this course
- Systematic hiragana and katakana reading
- A1 listening expansion
- Core particles and polite verb forms
- Everyday transactions
- Regional and social language variation