Course Overview

This Katakana course is created to let learners enjoy the experience of learning to read and write this alphabet.

As a reading and writing course, the learners will also be exposed to some vocabulary words so they will see how and when Katakana characters are used.

This is a prerequisite for the “Everyday Conversation 2” and “Basic Kanji” course.

Learning Hiragana is a prerequisite to this course.

Introduction

The Japanese alphabet is composed of 3 forms of writing:

• Hiragana
• Katakana
• Kanji

This course will be teaching learners how to read and write the Katakana alphabet.

Objectives

• To make the Katakana characters recognizable by the learners
• To teach learners how to read a certain character as is, and in combination with other characters
• To practice the learner’s reading skills
• To practice the learner’s writing skills

Justification

Learning language should always be fun so the learners will be able to grasp the written characters more.

Content

This course will teach the form, way of reading, way of writing of all the characters of the Hiragana alphabet.

Methodology

This course will teach the form, way of reading, way of writing of all the characters of the Katakana alphabet.

Materials Needed

Materials will all be uploaded in the “Documents” section of the course