JAPN401: STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE LANGUAGE
Course Description: This course aims to develop basic understanding of structural features of Japanese language. Students will be introduced to basic phonological, morphological, syntactic, and discourse analysis of Japanese. Taught in Japanese.
Meets MLO 1: Japanese Language and Communication
Reflective Narrative:
This course implemented advanced Japanese grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary while also teaching about the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, or JLPT, which meets MLO 1 because of its Japanese Language and Communication. We had a workbook for this course wherein we would learn new grammar, vocabulary and kanji. We also used a Japanese textbook that was a JLPT preparatory book that taught us more advanced grammar. The work we completed in this class helped my pronunciation immensely. The quizzes we had in that class also helped my ability to spell and recognize kanji (see Evidence 1). The one thing in particular that helped was learning the phonetic alphabet and comparing Japanese and English alphabets (see Evidence 2). It was this class that taught me how to correctly pronounce Japanese. Taking this class the semester before I went abroad was an incredible help for people being able to understand me when I asked them a question (ex. asking someone for directions). The areas I wish to develop further are memorizing the alphabet and re-learning the differences between the Japanese and English phonetic alphabet. Speaking it is easy, but being able to write down the differences is something I want to be able to do. This is the first course of its kind that I have taken, so I took forward to taking more classes that primarily focus on pronunciation and grammar.
This course implemented advanced Japanese grammar, pronunciation and vocabulary while also teaching about the Japanese Language Proficiency Test, or JLPT, which meets MLO 1 because of its Japanese Language and Communication. We had a workbook for this course wherein we would learn new grammar, vocabulary and kanji. We also used a Japanese textbook that was a JLPT preparatory book that taught us more advanced grammar. The work we completed in this class helped my pronunciation immensely. The quizzes we had in that class also helped my ability to spell and recognize kanji (see Evidence 1). The one thing in particular that helped was learning the phonetic alphabet and comparing Japanese and English alphabets (see Evidence 2). It was this class that taught me how to correctly pronounce Japanese. Taking this class the semester before I went abroad was an incredible help for people being able to understand me when I asked them a question (ex. asking someone for directions). The areas I wish to develop further are memorizing the alphabet and re-learning the differences between the Japanese and English phonetic alphabet. Speaking it is easy, but being able to write down the differences is something I want to be able to do. This is the first course of its kind that I have taken, so I took forward to taking more classes that primarily focus on pronunciation and grammar.
Evidence 1: On the right is an example of the quizzes we had for this course. It is a great example of my progress through the course and how I fulfilled MLO 1.
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Evidence 2: On the right is an example of the Japanese and English phonetic alphabet.
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