JAP10 Japanese for Business 1

• Topics

  Course content:

  This course is an introduction to Japanese oral and written communication. Written language means two phonetic alphabets and approximately 70 kanii (Chinese characters). In addition, the course provides factual knowledge about Japanese culture and society.

• Learning outcome

  Upon successful completion of the course, the student has acquired the following:

  Knowledge

  • basic factual knowledge about the Japanese language system
  • basic factual knowledge about Japan

  Skills

  • basic practical skills in Japanese
  • able to read simple texts in Japanese
  • able to produce simple oral and written sentences

  general competence:

  • a basic competence in how to work and communicate with East Asians

• Required prerequisites

  No prerequisite knowledge required

• Compulsory Activity

  Workbook, 6 hand-ins approx. every second week from mid-September

• Assessment

  1,5-hour individual home exam

• Grading Scale

  Pass / Fail