Conversational Japanese Through Role Play
JAPN 228
Fall 2025
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Using a situational approach, students will learn through spoken practice various Japanese expressions for functions such as requests, invitations, apologies, comfort, encouragement, offers, advice, permission, humility, and how to describe or explain situations, explain procedures, ask for corrections, make excuses, and share topics, etc., in different situations. Additionally, in these situations, students will practice switching smoothly to the most appropriate speech styles (casual/polite/honorific) based on the relationship or psychological distance between the speaker and the listener so that their Japanese sounds "natural" to people they are engaging with out in the "real world." Students will be given situations in class, and they will think of appropriate conversations for those situations, studying through role-playing. Students must adjust the level of politeness based on the given relationship. The role playing and discussions will also derive from students watching scenes from popular Japanese media (movies, drama, internet, etc.) and then talking about them. |
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| Credit: .5 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
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| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Credit/Unsatisfactory |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: JAPN104 |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (College of East Asian Studies Minor)(College of East Asian Studies) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: 90% or above |
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Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
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Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This is a course for students who have studied basic/fundamental Japanese grammar (introductory Japanese) but are interested in improving their speaking skills in Japanese. This includes students who are concurrently taking a regular four-skills-focused class but want to practice speaking more, those who have studied Japanese on their own but are not currently enrolled in regular courses, those who have studied the language but have become rusty and want to refresh it, those who took the placement test but couldn¿t find the most suitable class, or those who simply want to become better speakers and listeners. It is also for those who wish to review and reinforce the conversational skills they studied in a previous class.
Prerequisite is JAPN 104 or equivalent knowledge and above. |
| Instructor(s): Hatano-Cohen,Miyuki Times: .....F. 10:50AM-12:10PM; Location: FISK403; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 12 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 2 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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