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