Pre – Intermediate Description
This course is for those who have completed Elementary courses or reached N5 level. Pre-Intermediate brings together the fundamentals of Japanese. You will increase your vocabulary, and begin to really start speaking!
– There are 5 levels in Pre-Intermediate and it takes 10 weeks to complete each level. If you are not sure of your level, take a quick level check or get in touch.
Duration | 8 weeks ( 2 hours / session ) |
Class Size | 2-6 people |
Textbook | Minna no Nihongo shokyu 2 |
What you will learn
Pre – Intermediate 1 |
Various uses of んです (あめ ふっているんですか |
Potential verb (さしみが 食べられます) | |
Talking about someone doing two actions at the same time(テレビをみながら、ばんごはんを 食べます) | |
Describe two or more merits and reasons (あのレストランは おいしいし、やすいです) | |
Intransitive verb (ドアが しまります) | |
Describe resulting state (えが かざってあります) | |
Volitional form (えいがを みよう!) | |
Pre – Intermediate 2 |
Giving advice (くすりを 飲んだほうがいいです) |
Predicting the weather (あしたは はれるでしょう) | |
Imperative form/ Prohibitive form (とまれ/はいるな) | |
Tell someone to do it as the same way (わたしがいったとおりに、いってください) | |
Conditional form(はるになれば、さくらが さきます) | |
Giving the purpose of actions (日本語がはなせるように、べんきょうします) | |
Pre – Intermediate 3 |
Passive verb(わたしは せんせいに ほめられました) |
Saying what you think about the activity (えを 書くのは、たのしいです) | |
Saying the course of your feeling. (ニュースを 聞いて、びっくりしました) | |
Indirect question (なにを 食べるか かんがえています) | |
Pre – Intermediate 4 |
Saying what you receive from someone in higher status (しゃちょうに おみやげを いただきました) |
Giving the purpose of actions (日本に すむために、日本語を べんきょうします) | |
Saying how a thing/ person looks like. (あめが ふりそうです) | |
Saying something is easy/ hard to do. (この本は わかりにくいです) | |
Saying what to do incase something happens. (あめが ふったばあいは、ちゅうしです) | |
Pre – Intermediate 5 |
Stressing a certain point in time during the course of an action. (でんしゃに のったところです) |
Telling someone what you have heard. (あしたは あめが ふるそうです) | |
Saying what seems like. (コンサートが はじまるようです) | |
Causative verb(母は わたしに やさいを 食べさせました) | |
Respectful expressions (しゃちょうは おでかけに なりました) | |
Humble expressions (わたくしが にもつを おもちします) |