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Japanese Language Night Course in the Bay Area:

Have you studied a two quarter course before in Japanese, and would
now like to continue learning the language?  Foothill College is
now accepting registration for the spring quarter.  Night classes
will be held on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 5:30pm to 7:50pm.
For holders of a bachelor's degree, the course will cost about $185
for the Apr 3 to June 20 term.  The course will be held at
Foothill College's Palo Alto Campus on Middlefield Road.

The course is entitled Beginning Japanese 3 (Japn-003.02).
To take this course, you must know how to read and write 
the Hiragana and Katakana "alphabets" but writing Kanji is not
yet required.  The grammar skills include knowledge of plain present
and past forms, both positive and negative (eg to write kaku, kaita, kakanai,
kakanakatta), and polite forms (kakimasu, kakimashita, kakimasen,
kakimasen deshita).  You should also know the -te form and its various
usages  for stringing multiple actions, asking politely for permission,
(kaite mo ii desu ka - may I write), state of being (kekkon shite imasu
-he is married), and present progressive (-am writing kaite imasu).
The other major verb form is the -tai form for expressing things you
want to do (kakitai - want to write).  Similarly you should know how
to modify adjectives for the present and past, positive and negative
forms (eg cheap - yasui, yasukatta, yasukunai, yasukunakatta).

The conversation skills so far have focused on introducing yourself,
asking the location of objects, buying things, ordering at a restaurant,
asking about unknown words, asking permission, and making a phone call.
Both the grammar and conversation skills from Japanes 1 and 2 are covered in
Situational Functional Japanese Volume 1 Notes and Volume 1 Drills.
Japanese 3 moves onto the second set of books: Situational Functional
Japanese Volume 2 Notes, and Volume 2 Drills.

For phone in registration call, Foothill College, 12345 El Monte Road,
Los Altos Hills, CA 94022-4599. Phone 1-408-996-6026 or if in
Palo Alto or San Mateo County, call 1-800-540-6026.
For any registration problems or questions, call
(415) 949-7325.  Telephone registration runs from March 13-17 and
late in person registration March 27-29 9am-7:30pm.
This course requires a minimum of 20 people to continue and may be
cancelled if insufficient demand exists based on telephone
registration.