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Students are able to communicate effectively in Japanese in three modes: interpersonal, interpretive and presentational; and in a culturally appropriate manner in a variety of social and professional settings and circumstances at the Intermediate-High level of language proficiency, according to the ACTFL Guidelines.
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Students gain competency in the Japanese language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and discourse, and compare and analyze the structural differences between Japanese and English.
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Japanese 3
JAPN 300: Intro to Adv Communication
JAPN 303: Business Japanese
JAPN 304: Intro to Translation and Interpretation
MLO Narrative
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Throughout these classes I learned skills to understand and speak in professional and casual settings. I have learned how to interpret what I read and what I hear, to have an interpersonal and meaningful conversation in Japanese, and to give presentations or to present information. For example, in Business Japanese, the main focus of the class is the formality aspect of Japanese language, but much of what is learned of how to communicate in the business place is part of an interpersonal communication style unique to the language. It is also a presentation, as displayed in students' final project, a video about how to speak to others in the business place. In JAPN 304, I learned the most skills in interpretation, learning how to read Japanese with techniques like skimming and scanning, in order to most effectively understand information.
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While studying Japanese, I have learned about the phonetics and structure of Japanese. In turn, I have also studied this in English. English has a lot of variables in its speech pattern, every letter and set of letters being able to sound out in a different way depending upon the structure of a word or even its language of origin. Having originated from many languages (e.g. French, Latin, German), English has a very different structure that can be compared to a variety of Western languages. Japanese on the other hand cannot be invariably compared to other languages, other than Chinese, from which it took its writing system of Kanji.
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