eastside japanese  

 Level 1

Topics:

  • Meeting new people: introducing yourself, greetings, asking for your new friends’ information.
  • Shopping: asking what things are, and their prices.


Grammatical points:

  • Be-verb and its conjugation in present tense
  • Hiragana alphabet


Required textbook (all new students are required to obtain the following textbook)


Banno, E. (2011). Genki 1: An integrated course in elementary Japanese: Textbook (2. ed.). Tokyo: The Japan Times (ISBN: 9784789014403)

Available at: 

Kinokuniya book store (in store & online)
Amazon.com ​