Prerequisites: ICML 113, refresher course or placement test.
Elements of complex grammar and vocabulary related to a variety of everyday contexts allowing the students to discuss familiar topics, express opinions in a more elaborate way, ask for clarification, read a wider variety of texts, and write simple letters or narratives. ICLJ 212 Pre-intermediate Japanese II
Prerequisite: ICLJ 211
More complex grammar and vocabulary allowing the students to hold a short conversation, ask for, understand and offer information in a broader variety of familiar topics, read more elaborate texts, and write longer letters or narratives. ICLJ 213 Pre-intermediate Japanese III
Prerequisite: ICLJ 212
Consolidation of the acquisitions of ICLJ 211 and 212 and further mastering of complex grammar and vocabulary in order to allow the students to fully reach a standard pre-intermediate level of proficiency. ICLJ 311 Intermediate Japanese I
Prerequisite: ICLJ 213
Elements of advanced grammar and vocabulary related to specialized contexts allowing the students to participate in discussions on specific topics, express opinions and ask for clarification in such contexts, read a wider variety of long texts, and write extended letters or narratives. ICLJ 312 Intermediate Japanese II
Prerequisite: ICLJ 311
More advanced grammar and vocabulary related to a wider variety of specialized contexts allowing the students to begin, hold and close extended conversations and discussions related to specialized topics and situations, and read and write simple argumentative texts related to such contexts. ICLJ 313 Intermediate Japanese III
Prerequisite: ICLJ 312
Consolidation of the acquisitions of ICLJ 311 and 312 and further mastering of advanced grammar and specialized vocabulary in order to allow the students to fully reach a standard intermediate level of proficiency. ICLJ 320 Intermediate Japanese: Written Skills
Prerequisite: ICLJ 313
Analysis of texts of various kinds (press, advertisements, literature, reports, etc.) chosen according to the fields and topics of interest of the students and production of similar written documents, in order to prepare the students for the written skill part of a standard intermediate level proficiency test. ICLJ 330 Intermediate Japanese: Oral Skills
Prerequisite: ICLJ 320
Analysis of various audio documents (such as TV and radio broadcast, plays and films) chosen according to the fields and topics of interest of the students and the production of similar documents, in order to prepare the students for the oral skill part of a standard intermediate level proficiency test.