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Japanese Language
6 sections available · 34 chapters available
Free Japanese Language study notes for Senior High School students. Each chapter below covers a key topic with worked examples and practice prompts you can take into the thinka app.
Contemporary Japanese
Vocabulary and kanji for real-world use
Handling information: claims, grounds, inference
Reading logical texts
Reading practical texts and charts
Writing logical texts
Speaking and listening
Language Culture
Introduction to classical grammar (bungo)
Reading classical Japanese: tales, diaries, essays
Introduction to kanbun: kundoku rules
Reading kanbun: histories, thought, Chinese poetry
Reading modern literary texts
Waka, haiku and traditional rhetorical techniques
Change of words and styles over time
Logical Japanese
Reading for gist and points of argument
Critical reading: examining grounds and warrants
Relating multiple texts and materials
Academic vocabulary and forms of argument
Writing an argumentative essay
Literary Japanese
Reading fiction: narrator, setting, description
Reading poetry: rhythm and rhetoric
Essays and criticism; background of a work
Style and rhetorical technique
Creative writing and rewriting
Japanese Expression
Speeches, interviews and presentations
Discussion and debate
Writing practical documents: proposals and reports
Letters, e-mail and honorific expression
Adapting expression to purpose and audience; revision
Classics Inquiry
Classical grammar
Classical vocabulary and shifted meanings
Reading classical Japanese by genre
Kanbun sentence patterns
Reading kanbun by genre
Background of the classics and change in language culture
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