Japanese classes meet once per week for a 2-hour lesson*. At each level, the program length is 8 weeks. We offer levels 1 to 6 and beyond.
HIGHLIGHTS: Experienced and qualified teachers, structured teaching, communicative approach, and measurable results.
TEXTBOOK: Genki, An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese, third edition (The Japan Times Publishing). The textbook is not included in the price.
While we use the prescribed textbook throughout the course, the lesson plans exhibit teacher’s experience and the adaptability skills in view of the classroom's changing needs. We believe that using a textbook yields the best results for beginner and intermediate students. Therefore, it’s advisable to buy the prescribed textbook(s). They also provide explanatory information that may be useful for a questioning adult student and for homework.
SOME OF THE TOPICS COVERED AT EACH LEVEL
For further details/course descriptions, contact: japanese@merrimacklanguage.com
Japanese Level 1:
- Useful Daily Expressions
- Identifying people and things
- Introduce name, nationality, and job
- Learn greeting in Japanese business setting
- Number (basic)
- Ask and state who the owner of an object is
- Pronouns and noun modifiers
- Ask when a service/event will begin or when a facility will open
Japanese Level 2:
- How to interact when shopping
- Ask and answer the price of objects
- Adjectives to describe objects
- Various counters for different objects
- Japanese currencies
- Number (decimal point and large numbers)
Japanese level 3:
- Describe daily routine
- Motion verbs
- Describe frequency of event and action
- Confirming schedule
- Past tense, Present tense, Future tense
- Asking how to get to the destination
- Existence of people and things
Hosokawa, A. (Instructor)
Hosokawa, A. has a Bachelor’s degree in Foreign Studies in Education and International Relations from Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan. She has attended an Exchange Program in International Relations at UMass Amherst before she began her career in accounting. Ms Hosokawa has also worked as a free-lance translator and interpreter between Japanese and English languages. She has taught Japanese for several years.
Merrimack Language School offers English and foreign language programs in a classroom setting where you can benefit from focused, real-time interaction with a teacher and students. A hybrid remote option for select classes is also available.
Study as private (one-to-one ) or semi-private (1 to 2 students) or in a group (usually 3 to 5 students) in our school or offsite (businesses and corporations only). Start as a beginner, intermediate or an advanced student.
Programs are offered throughout the year in six 8-week sessions. Private lessons can start at any time. (Learn more about foreign language programs.)
Classes are held in downtown Lowell in the evenings -- one evening a week.
With a communicative, integrated approach, teaching at all levels is progressive, structured with measurable results.
UPCOMING SESSION
SCHEDULE
[In-person classes with a hybrid option to join remotely when attendance in person is not possible.]
Level 1 - Mondays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Level 2 - Wednesdays, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Level 4 - Thursdays, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
[Other levels TBD]
PRICE: $350
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