Japanese - First Year I

Faculty: Benjamin DeTora

This first quarter of a year-long sequence is designed for complete beginners. Students will learn how to function in Japanese in everyday situations by learning useful expressions and basic sentence structures. Both hiragana and katakana letters as well as elementary kanji characters will be introduced. Japanese culture and society will be discussed throughout the course. This is a good preparatory course for students interested in participating in Evergreen's exchange program with University of Miyazaki or University of Hyogo in Japan. 

Anticipated Credit Equivalencies:

4 - First Year Japanese I