Study Abroad in Seto, Japan

Curriculum

The Institute for Japanese Studies at NGU offers five levels of Intensive Japanese Studies (IJS), as well as a broad range of Japanese studies classes in English covering such areas as Japanese history, religion, and environment. Elementary Japanese is designed for students who know at least 100 basic kanji, as well as hiragana and katakana. Pre-Intermediate Japanese is designed to offer further practice in ordinary conversation so that students will be able to communicate socially using polite expressions. Students will be able to write simple sentences (using 500 Kanji) by the end of the class. Intermediate Japanese prepares students to be able to carry on natural conversation with a large vocabulary and complex sentence structure. Pre-Advanced Japanese is designed to give for longer conversation. Students will read newspaper and magazine articles using 1500 kanji. All IJS students must take a placement test at the beginning of each term and will be placed in a Japanese language course according to their test scores.