Diploma in Japanese Language (Free Online Course)

This free online diploma course puts you on the path to fluency in Japanese and covers the basics of the language.

This diploma course covers the fundamentals of Japanese. The language is spoken by over 120 million people worldwide, not only in Japan but also in large migrant communities found in the United States, Brazil and across East Asia and the Pacific Rim. This course lays out some basic grammar and vocabulary to get you up and running with your new skills and suits anyone who wants to communicate in Japanese or study the culture of Nippon.

What You Will Learn In This Free Course

• Identify different Japanese time expressions
• Translate commonly used Japanese words to English
• Count to a hundred in Japanese and refer to multiples of a hundred and a thousand
• List and describe the three Japanese scripts
• Pronounce Japanese sounds
• Explain the meanings of different Japanese conversational phrases
• Describe Japanese grammatical concepts

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