MISJ WELCOME PROGRAM Section 2
What you'll learn
- Basic Japanese pronunciation
- Basic reading and writing of Japanese hiragana and katakana characters
- Basic grammar for making sentences using VERB
- Basic conversation skills which reflect your intelligence, which will allow you to make friends and enjoy shopping.
- Practical conversations such as asking for help and giving instructions to drivers.
Requirements
- The willingness to learn Japanese language and culture
- English listening ability
- Ideally finish learning the SECTION 1 of the MISJ WELCOME PROGRAM or at least can read basic Hiragana and Katakana.
- This program is carefully designed so that you can learn everything systematically. So, when you study this program for the first time, be sure to watch the videos from the beginning, in order, without jumping around to random topics. When you review, you may watch them in any order.
- If you can smoothly read and write Hiragana and Katakana already, just skip those parts.
Description
Second part of the MISJ WELCOME PROGRAM: three lessons, from Lesson 5 to Lesson 7. You will learn pronunciation, writing and reading of basic characters, how to make VERB-based sentences, and how to ask and answer questions using these sentences. Conversational topics include: talking about daily life of yourself and your family, what yourself and your family will do in the future, what yourself and your family did in the past, and what yourself want to do. Practical conversational topics are: how to ask for help, how to ask someone to do something for you, and how to give instructions to drivers.
Who this course is for:
- This is the second of three sections of the MISJ WELCOME PROGRAM. MISJ stands for Mikiko Iwasaki’s Systematic Japanese.
- The WELCOME PROGRAM is suitable for beginners who want to make a good start of learning Japanese. But it also helps people who want to re-build a solid foundation of Japanese language study.
- Hundreds of our students, from countries across the world, recommend the MISJ WELCOME PROGRAM. Sign up today!
Course content
Lesson 5-114 lectures • 1hr
- IntroductionPreview02:37
- [ha] line HiragaなPreview09:06
- What you will learn in Section 2 & what is importantPreview01:17
- How to use VERB sentences in present tense: Five basic VERBS01:14
- Q & A(YES)03:11
- Q & A(NO) →Q & A(YES/NO)04:20
- Conversation & CB02:15
- How to add OBJECT information: What08:26
- How to handle OBJECT info. during conversations: Q & A (simple YES/NO)05:46
- Q & A (YES with OBJECT info.)01:16
- Q & A (NO with OBJECT info.)03:32
- Q(INT) & A (NO with OBJECT info.) & CB09:40
- Conversation05:18
- Summary02:28
Lesson 5-211 lectures • 49min
Lesson 5-39 lectures • 38min
Lesson 6-114 lectures • 1hr 4min
Lesson 6-223 lectures • 1hr 41min
Lesson 6-37 lectures • 32min
Lesson 7-120 lectures • 2hr 10min
Lesson 7-221 lectures • 1hr 16min
Lesson 7-36 lectures • 49min
Instructors
![Iwasaki Mikiko](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 599 Reviews
- 2,241 Students
- 3 Courses
Graduated from Tokyo Women’s Christian College, Mathematics B.A. Part-time lecturer at Nara Institute of Science & Technology since 2015.
Achievements (1992～2018)
Number of students who learned with MISJ: more than 500.
Students’ age: from 15 to 65 years old.
Students from more than 30 countries including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia; European countries such as the UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Finland; Asian countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, India ,Viet Nam, Philippines, China, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh and Indonesia; and Congo(DRC).
Developed Japanese language teaching materials: Review materials such as textbooks and cards for students’ use from introductory level to the intermediate level. Teaching materials and manuals for instructors. Three e-Learning programs. One TV program, “Meet & Speak” currently being broadcast by NHK WORLD. One textbook for a TV program broadcast by NHK EDUCATIONAL from 2014 to 2016.
- 4.7 Instructor Rating
- 601 Reviews
- 2,242 Students
- 7 Courses
Graduated from Tokyo Women’s Christian College, Mathematics BA. Specialist for teaching beginners and for developing teachers who can teach beginners.
Was a part-time lecturer at Nara Institute of Science & Technology from 2015 to 2018.
Developed Japanese language learning materials for students’ use from the introductory level to the intermediate level.
Developed teaching materials and manuals for instructors.
Mame three e-Learning programs, one TV program, “Meet & Speak” broadcasted by NHK WORLD. You can watch it via Youtube now.
Supervised making a textbook for the TV program broadcasted by NHK EDUCATIONAL from 2014 to 2016.
Achievements (1992～2020)
The number of students who learned with MISJ is more than 850.
Students’ age is from 15 to 65 years old
Students are from more than 30 countries including the USA, Canada, Mexico, Australia; European countries such as the UK, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland, and Finland; Asian countries such as Singapore, Hong Kong, India, Viet Nam, Philippines, China, Korea, Malaysia, Myanmar, Thailand, Bangladesh, and Indonesia, and Congo(DRC).