JAPN 401: STRUCTURE OF JAPANESE LANG
Course Description:
This course aims to develop basic understanding of structural features of Japanese language. Students will be introduced to basic phonological, morphological, syntactic, and discourse analysis of Japanese. Taught in Japanese. (Credit/No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped me to fulfill my MLO 1 language and communication requirement. We learned about Japanese the structure of the Japanese language by going over a good amount of Japanese grammar points. A good amount of it seemed like review from past classes, but this course was much more in Japanese and taught us how to explain why certain grammar points are used in Japanese rather than using English. We also learned about the pronunciation and intonation of the language. This helps greatly in learning how to properly speak the language.
The entire course really fulfilled the MLO, but what work we did have were a few review question sheets, and a couple of tests. We also had to record ourselves doing shadowing to assess our pronunciation and see if we were putting the pitch-accents in the correct location. We also did a self-introduction practice again, but we were to apply the pronunciation practice we had done so that the introduction can be better remembered and stick well in those we are presenting to.
The biggest thing that I gained was really an overall understanding (however shallow it may still be) of why the Japanese language is how it is and why we use certain grammar points when we do. This was something that I had never really known and just spoke not knowing why I was using what I was. It also provided a desire to further my understanding of my own language.
I would love to learn more grammar and more about the Japanese language so that I can obtain an even greater command of the language. I would love to get good enough to where I can pass N1 or the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
I’ll have to do a lot of personal study and practice in order to further explore this learning experience. I have to really try at it since this part isn’t like culture where you just take in information, this has to actually be practiced.
This course aims to develop basic understanding of structural features of Japanese language. Students will be introduced to basic phonological, morphological, syntactic, and discourse analysis of Japanese. Taught in Japanese. (Credit/No Credit Available) (Prereq: JAPN 202 or JAPN 300)
Reflective Narrative:
This course helped me to fulfill my MLO 1 language and communication requirement. We learned about Japanese the structure of the Japanese language by going over a good amount of Japanese grammar points. A good amount of it seemed like review from past classes, but this course was much more in Japanese and taught us how to explain why certain grammar points are used in Japanese rather than using English. We also learned about the pronunciation and intonation of the language. This helps greatly in learning how to properly speak the language.
The entire course really fulfilled the MLO, but what work we did have were a few review question sheets, and a couple of tests. We also had to record ourselves doing shadowing to assess our pronunciation and see if we were putting the pitch-accents in the correct location. We also did a self-introduction practice again, but we were to apply the pronunciation practice we had done so that the introduction can be better remembered and stick well in those we are presenting to.
The biggest thing that I gained was really an overall understanding (however shallow it may still be) of why the Japanese language is how it is and why we use certain grammar points when we do. This was something that I had never really known and just spoke not knowing why I was using what I was. It also provided a desire to further my understanding of my own language.
I would love to learn more grammar and more about the Japanese language so that I can obtain an even greater command of the language. I would love to get good enough to where I can pass N1 or the highest level of the Japanese Language Proficiency Test.
I’ll have to do a lot of personal study and practice in order to further explore this learning experience. I have to really try at it since this part isn’t like culture where you just take in information, this has to actually be practiced.