1. Summer Japanese Course for Beginners
The JET Program Office is excited to announce our summer Japanese course for new JETs!
SIGN UP HERE
by June 23, 2016
* JETs are welcome to attend any or all sessions of the Summer Japanese Course!*
Date Topics
June 29
Interaction with Students
 Basic words and Classroom Japanese
 Self-Introduction
July 6
Interaction with Coworkers
 How to ask and answer questions
 Workplace Japanese
July 13
Interaction with Strangers
 Asking for directions and ordering food
 Emergency situation Japanese
July 20
Interactions with Friends
 Talking about US/Japan
 Making Plans
For the instructor, we invited Ms. Jana Hopkins (Gunma-ken ‘13-‘15). She holds a BA in Sociology
and Chinese Language with a Japanese language minor from UC Berkeley, and is currently studying
at UC San Diego School of Global Policy and Strategy focusing in Japanese business. In total she has
studied Japanese for the last 7 years, and is at JLPT N2 business proficiency level and Japanese Kanji
Proficiency Level 6. Jana, who started to learn Japanese as a freshman in college, knows the difficulty
and shyness one gets when learning a new language and hopes to encourage you all to start your
Japanese language journey. In this course, Jana wants to not only teach you useful survival Japanese,
but also to create a cross-cultural experience by immersing you into activities that you would use to
teach your students in JET.
 Dates: Wednesday, June 29, July 6, 13, 20 (total 4 sessions) 6:00pm – 7:30pm
 Place: The Embassy of Japan (2520 Massachusetts Ave, NW Washington DC 20008)
 Metro: DuPont Circle (Red Line) 15 min walk or 5 min bus ride (N2, N4, N6)
 Course fee: FREE!