Japanese listening and reading for Beginner to Intermediate
Learn Japanese with this comprehensive course that focuses on improving listening and reading comprehension. From asking and answering questions to summarizing long texts, you’ll gain valuable language skills for everyday situations like eating out and traveling. With practice problems and JLPT N5 and N4 level content, this course is perfect for beginners and intermediate learners. Enhance your ability to guess and understand Japanese pronunciation by listening carefully and concentrating on the lessons. Whether you’re an international student, working professional, or homemaker, this course is designed to help you communicate effectively in Japanese.
What you’ll learn
- Learn “Q & A expressions”. In Part 1, you will learn how to ask questions and how to answer them in a short Q&A format
- Learn “to summarize” through long sentences. In Part 2, you will read long texts and learn how to summarize them under the theme of “Travel”.
- Learn to anticipate in advance to improve your listening comprehension.
- You will learn terms, how to use words, kanji, etc. that are used in situations such as “eating out” and “travelling.”
- You can create “ears” that allow you to hear Japanese.
- Through reading aloud practice, you can prevent “return reading” and understand in Japanese word order.
The ultimate goal of this course is to improve listening and reading comprehension. In Part 1, you will learn how to ask and answer questions in a short Q&A format. In Part 2, you will learn how to listen to long sentences and summarize them. Both Part 1 and Part 2 cover conversations in “eating” and “traveling” situations, so you can apply them to your daily life. There are also plenty of practice problems throughout.
In Part 1, you will learn how to ask questions and how to answer them in a short Q&A format with the theme of “eating”. For example, answer “Yes or No” to the question, answer “5W1H” to the question, or answers “A or B” after selecting, and so on.
In Part 2, you will read long texts and learn how to summarize them under the theme of “Travel”. For example, reading a long sentence, quickly finding the “subject and predicate” and “5W1H”, discussing the structure of the sentence, combining two sentences into one, and vice versa Practice things like dividing into two sentences.
Before listening to the words you often use in your daily life, show related photos, figures, and pictures so that you can imagine what you are going to hear. Even if you can’t understand it completely by listening to it once or twice, or if you come across words or kanji that you don’t know, if you have the ability to guess, you can understand the general content of the story. It takes a considerable amount of time to understand the same kanji and words as Japanese people. Perhaps it is impossible. Do not aim for that, and improve your Japanese ability on the premise that there are words and kanji that you do not understand. In other words, “the ability to guess” is important.
This course uses JLPT N5 and N4 level kanji and grammar. To improve listening and reading comprehension, it is especially important to understand how to use conjunctions and particles. You can also have a simple conversation with your friends in natural Japanese towards the end of this course.
This course aims to improve your listening comprehension, so I will talk it slowly and twice so that your ears can “get used to Japanese pronunciation”. Please concentrate on listening. If you listen to it once, you can hear about 50%, but if you listen to it twice, you can hear 70% to 80%. Guess the rest. The aim of this learning is to develop the ability to guess.
Who this course is for:
- Those who want to improve their Japanese ability from beginner to intermediate
- Those who want to learn Japanese on the themes of Japanese social circumstances, culture and customs, daily life, etc.
- Those who want to talk in Japanese, such as international students, working people, and housewives.
