Welcome to Japanese 1! In this class you will learn how to introduce yourself and greet people, how to talk about likes and dislikes and the things you do, will do, or did in the past. You will tell time, learn numbers into the tens of thousands, 99999  talk about the weather and where things are located.  You will learn how to order in a restaurant. 　 You will ask questions and describe things and people with adjectives. 

You will also learn how to read and write Japanese phonetic characters　あ　い　う　え　オ　カ　キ　　

(called hiragana and katakana) and 17 non-phonetic characters called kanji.　車　魚　月　週　茶　馬　

During the course of the year we may see a Japanese film, sing a Japanese song, make an origami figure, and sample some Japanese food.