Advanced Japanese I
MIT OpenCourseWare offers this advanced Japanese language course covering lessons 22 through 27 of Japanese: The Spoken Language by Eleanor H. Jordan with Mari Noda. The focus is on building oral proficiency through expanded vocabulary and grammar, with class time devoted to speaking tasks such as making requests, extending invitations, apologizing, offering suggestions, and handling problems or disagreements. Students practice expressing opinions while attending to grammatical accuracy and social appropriateness in their speech. Daily tape-work outside class is described as essential to reinforce listening and pronunciation. Materials include the course syllabus and lesson structure as published by MIT. No tuition or certificate fee applies since this is an open courseware offering, though no completion certificate is issued.