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Series Details
About
Welcome to the series! I have decided to change up the way we will be doing this to make it easier for me to organize and for students to understand what we are doing each week. Here's the new format:
1. Each week, I will post assignments both to our classroom in Duolingo, as well as to the group chat in our schoolhouse.world page. Please try to complete these before the assigned due dates.
2. On Wednesdays, we will go through some Duolingo lessons as a group. Afterwards, we will practice what we learned in those lessons via conversation.
3. On Saturdays, we will continue to practice what we learned in those lessons via conversation.
Please sign up for a Duolingo account, and join our classroom here: www.duolingo.com/classroom/kvgaju
I will see you on Wednesday!
Tutor Qualifications
I have taken the STAMP language proficiency exam in Japanese and received credit for 4 years of high school classes (the max amount of credits my high school would offer me for the test.) Also, I am certified bilingual in English and Japanese by the state of Oregon.
✋ ATTENDANCE POLICY
Right now, we are basically starting over with a new, better organized format, so you can join even if you haven't come to any previous sessions!
Dates
March 13 - April 28
Learners
31 / 50
Total Sessions
17
About the Tutor
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Freshman at the University of Utah interested in tech, natural sciences, and creative writing. If you have any questions related to high school CS, Japanese, or physics, shoot me a message!
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Upcoming Sessions
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Past Sessions
17
13
Mar
O
Session 1
Orientation
Please fill out this survey before attending, if you haven't already: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/10XYEZPElE8cZAigp8CcpQ8DciLY9DTQsrTNB0L68bi4/edit
It will help me to gauge how to structure the course!
I am planning on teaching some basic expressions (hello, goodbye, my name is x, etc.). If, however, everyone is already familiar with those, we can move on to some more basic expressions like (noun is adjective, and noun is noun), and learn some basic vocabulary.
16
Mar
OH
Session 2
Office Hours
This is a Q/A session. If you have any questions about Japanese, or want study tips, or just want to try to practice talking with me in Japanese, come on in!
17
Mar
E
Session 3
Enrichment
I am going to explain the basic structure of the Japanese language, and teach you some Hiragana (one of the Japanese alphabets.)
18
Mar
E
Session 4
Enrichment
We will continue to learn and practice Hiragana.
19
Mar
E
Session 5
Enrichment
We will continue to learn and practice Hiragana. Depending on where people are with this, we might be able to move on to basic grammar.
20
Mar
E
Session 6
Enrichment
The final Hiragana lesson/practice session (of course, if people are still struggling, we might do more of them). We will do a bunch of reading practice exercises. Also, we will use a hiragana stroke order diagram to practice trying to transcribe a bunch of English words into Hiragana.
21
Mar
OT
Session 7
Other Topics
Depending on where people are with Hiragana, we will either review Hiragana or study some basic grammar and vocabulary.
22
Mar
R
Session 8
Review
Today, we will review some topics I covered in one of the past sessions: how to say "noun is noun", "noun is adjective", "noun is not noun", and "noun is not adjective", and how to turn all of those expressions into questions, i.e. "Is the noun adjective?"
After I teach each of the rules, we will put it into practice by making sentences.
24
Mar
OT
Session 9
Other Topics
Today, we will go over how to put "noun is noun" and "noun is adjective" type sentences into the past tense, and practice doing it a lot.
26
Mar
OT
Session 10
Other Topics
Today, I will introduce the formal way to make sentences with verbs. For instance, "the cat sits", or "I sleep." I will also show you how to bring those verbs into the past tense.
31
Mar
OT
Session 11
Other Topics
We will review topics from past sessions, and continue to learn verb conjugations.
7
Apr
OT
Session 12
Other Topics
We will review topics from past sessions, and continue to learn verb conjugations.
14
Apr
O
Session 13
Orientation
This is the first lesson that uses the new format. Here's what we'll be doing:
1. Everyone will make an account on Duolingo. (For privacy reasons, please do not use your full name on Duolingo.) If you have trouble with this, please let me know and I will help you.
2. (optional) Join my classroom here on Duolingo so that you can see weekly asisgnments: www.duolingo.com/classroom/kvgaju
3. We will go through lessons on Duolingo together. Because I have been told by many students that they still don't feel comfortable enough with hiragana to read it without romanization, we will start with Hiragana 1. :)
Please see my post in the group chat for the roadmap/course schedule!
18
Apr
OT
Session 14
Other Topics
This week, we are focusing on mastering hiragana. In order to do that, we will do reading practice together, and play a kahoot game.
21
Apr
OT
Session 15
Other Topics
Q/A session. Bring questions! We will also practice simple conversation in Japanese.
25
Apr
OT
Session 16
Other Topics
Today, we will be going over some basic grammatical particles in Japanese. Here are the lecture slides that will accompany today's lesson: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1vh_RBeL26uCnRwE2QrKKugnkUHcKw1dBu4r-CsUORWQ/edit#slide=id.g12224147db6_1_64
28
Apr
OT
Session 17
Other Topics
Q/A session. Bring questions! We will also practice simple conversation in Japanese.