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Offered:

In-person classes, live-streamed Zoom sessions, or video recordings

  • • Term 1 (Feb-Apr) and Term 3 (Jul-Sep) each year, pending sufficient enrolment.

  • • This course is offered as an in-person course at the EarthDiverse Centre in Hamilton, New Zealand, live-streamed via Zoom if you live elsewhere, and as video recordings of the live sessions if you cannot attend the regularly scheduled class.

Date & Time:

Begins Tuesday 11 Feb 2025

  • • Our 2025 Term 1 Advanced Japanese 501, Part 1 course meets on Tuesdays from 6:30-7:30pm beginning on Tuesday 11 Feb (New Zealand time) and continues for eight consecutive weekly sessions. The last class of the Term is held on Tuesday 1 Apr 2025.

  • • If you live outside of New Zealand and wish to Zoom in to our live class sessions, check the nearest local Time Zone equivalent below:

Time Zone equivalents:

for live-streaming Zoom Sessions from New Zealand. If your Time Zone doesn't suit our live-streamed class, you can also access our courses by watching the live-recorded sessions that are posted to the course webpage each week, usually within 1-2 days.

  • Honolulu, Hawai’i: begins Mon 10 Feb 2025, 7:30-8:30pm

  • US Pacific: begins Mon 10 Feb 2025, 9:30-10:30pm

  • US Eastern: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 12:30-1:30am

  • London, UK: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 5:30-6:30am

  • Paris, France: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 6:30-7:30am

  • New Delhi, India: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 11:00am-12:00pm

  • Bangkok, Thailand: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 12:30-1:30pm

  • Singapore & Shanghai: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 1:30-2:30pm

  • Tokyo, Japan: begins Tue 11 Feb 2025, 2:30-3:30pm

  • Sydney, Australia: begins 11 Feb 2025, 4:30-5:30pm

Description:

Advanced Japanese 501, Part 1

  • • This is Part 1 of a four-part conversational Japanese course taught over 4 successive school terms (take as few or as many as you’d like!) specifically designed for advanced Japanese learners who have finished both our introductory and intermediate courses. All of our language programmes focus on acquiring reading and conversational skills, and learning about local culture. Our courses are designed for busy people: we do not expect you to study outside of class, nor do we assign homework (unless you’d like some!). Come and spend 8 class hours per Term (eight 1-hour weekly classes) studying Japanese and learning about Japanese culture, and have some fun too!

  • • Japanese 501: Conversational Japanese, Part 1 is for students that have completed our Japanese 101- 404 courses, or equivalent, and that wish to continue increasing their vocabulary, understanding of Japanese grammar, and improve their conversational skills. This course meets for 1-hour each week.

  • • Subsequent Term courses continue with Advanced Japanese (i.e. our Japanese 501 course) and continue to include additional reading and comprehension practice, advanced grammar, vocabulary, conversation and comprehension, and will continue in the same time slot for the duration of the full course.

Course curriculum:

Week by week new material will be posted throughout the duration of the course. Video recordings of each weekly session will be posted here 1-2 days after each class.

    1. EarthDiverse Course Information

    2. EarthDiverse Zoom instructions

    1. Japanese writing practice sheet

About this course

  • Video and PDF content of class presentations or whiteboards notes are uploaded weekly after each live session
  • Begins on Tue 11 Feb 2025
  • NZ time: 6:30-7:30pm

Meet our Instructor:

Japanese Instructor Yurika Arai, M Phil English and M Professional Studies

Yurika comes from Japan and has been living in Hamilton for over 30 years. She taught Japanese at the University of Waikato for 15 years and currently works as an early childhood education teacher and a freelance translator.

Location:

This is a hybrid class with both in-person sessions in our classrooms and streamed live via Zoom.

EarthDiverse, 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton East, Hamilton or online via Zoom. All in-person classes are held at the EarthDiverse offices and classrooms located at 401 Anglesea Street, Hamilton Central, Hamilton (located just north of the Hamilton Central Bus Station) (entrance is located on the side of the building, see map below). Those looking for parking for our evening classes can park just in front of the building in any of the available car parks. Daytime parking can be found in our dedicated car parks, or free 2-hour on-street daytime parking can be found just in front of Anglesea Street.
Location

Distance Learning:

This course has distance-learning options for those unable to attend the live class sessions in Hamilton. Students have three options for attending our courses once they have registered:

  • Attend in-person classes in our Hamilton classrooms at the regularly scheduled day and time.

  • Attend our live on-line classroom sessions via Zoom at the regular scheduled day and time.

  • Watch the live-recorded class sessions at your leisure, at a time, day and place more suited to your schedule.

Distance-Learning options:

Live Zoom sessions and Video-Recordings

  • • In addition to our in-person classes in Hamilton, our courses offer distance learning options for those unable to attend classes in-person. Live-streamed Hamilton classes are available via free Zoom software for those living outside the Waikato. Live-streaming allows you to participate fully in your own learning, ask questions of the instructor and participate fully in the same way as if you were in the physical classroom.

  • • Those unable to attend the scheduled date and time of the actual class sessions, or those who need to miss a class or two due to previous engagements or unexpected illness, can watch any or all of the live-recorded video sessions on their computers, laptops, tablets or mobile devices and study at their own pace and in their own time.

  • • Detailed instructions on how to access our distance learning components will be sent after completing your registration. There are no additional fees for this service. However, distance learners will need access to a desktop or laptop computer with a good quality web-camera (tablet devices and mobile phones can also access our live-streamed classes), a built-in microphone (most modern laptops have built-in microphones) or a headset with a microphone. You will also need to download and install the free Zoom software on your computer or device. Those accessing the video recordings will be able to do so with a simple web browser on any device.

Pricing options:

• All prices in NZ dollars and includes GST. • Unwaged includes students, seniors, retirees and unemployed. • Prices remain the same regardless of your chosen method for accessing this course.

Notes:

Those who cannot make the class meeting day and time via live Zoom sessions may consider accessing this course through the weekly recorded video sessions. Class videos are usually posted within 1-2 days of each live class session and are available for your own personal learning on a day and time of your choosing.

  • • This course has no assignments, quizzes, tests or exams

  • • You will not need to purchase any reading materials.

  • • All classes encourage questions and group discussion.

  • • PDFs of class presentations and video recordings of each session will be posted 1-2 days after each session for the duration of the course. You are most welcome to come, sit back, relax, take part in and enjoy the discussions!

  • • Course fees include tea/coffee/snack at each session. Help yourself!

  • • There are no refunds for missed classes.

  • • Guests of registered participants are welcome to attend a single session without registering.

  • • If, however, this course is cancelled due to insufficient enrolments please note that your registration fee will either be refunded in full or you may select to receive a course credit. Your choice!

Materials:

All materials are included in the course fees. These are developed by our instructors and distributed as PDF files on the course webpage.

  • • Course materials are provided to all registered students as digital materials made available to you on the course webpage for download (accessible after registration). There is no need to purchase any additional textbooks for this course, although you may choose to do so to supplement your learning

  • • You will only require a pen or pencil, a notebook for taking your own class notes, and a loose-leaf binder.

  • • Any notes that our instructor writes on a digital whiteboard are posted to the class webpage on your dashboard as a PDF file so that you can print these out at home and add them to your own notebook.

Prerequisites:

A keen desire to continue your Japanese learning!

  • • Introductory Japanese 101-104 and Intermediate Japanese 201- 404 (or equivalent).

  • • Open to both adults and kids 10 years and older.