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Intensive 3 and the following Intensive 4 aims to attain the "B1" level based on the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR), where the learner is able to deal with standard situations encountered in work, schoool, or leisure. The learner will also be able to produce logically-constructed texts. We will therefore deal with relatively complex communicative situations and linguistic structures. By carrying out variosu concrete "Tasks" using Spanish, and through examination of our own foreign-language learning process, we will attach great importance to your development and growth as a learner who takes responsibility of his/her own learning, i.e. as a learner who not only learns Spanish, but also learns 'how to learn.'
En este curso, seguimos con el esfuerzo comenzado en el Intensivo 3 para adquirir el nivel B1 en el Marco Común Europeo de Referencia para las lenguas, introduciendo algunos temas del nivel B2. A través de este curso, lxs estudiantes adquirirán una sólida base lingüística y cultural sobre el español/castellano y el mundo hispanohablante.
Arabic is the official language of more than 20 countries and is the world language adopted as one of the six official languages of the United Nations. The Arabic alphabet looks complicated at first glance, but actually consists of only about 30 letters and is used in various languages other than Arabic. Why don't you learn Arabic at SFC for global exchange?
Intensive 1 is an intensive Arabic class four times a week for beginners. Starting with learning of Arabic alphabet, students will learn basic vocabulary, grammar and expressions in a well-balanced manner, using original teaching materials.
Intensive 2 is an intensive class four times a week for students who have finished Intensive 1. In this course, students will acquire expressions based on language functions and learn reading, writing and conversation skills in a well-balanced manner. After completing this course, students will be able to have communication on various occasions using simple Arabic sentences.
This course is designed for those who are in the lower intermediate level of Japanese or who have completed the Japanese Intensive Elementary 2.
Students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking while studying grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. They will also study to be able to use Japanese well by making presentations, writing essays, and reviewing grammar.
This course is designed for those in the lower intermediate level of Japanese or who have completed the Japanese Intensive 1.
Students will practice reading, writing, listening, and speaking while studying grammar, vocabulary, and kanji. They will also study to be able to use Japanese well by making presentations, writing essays, and reviewing grammar.
This course is designed for students at the upper intermediate level of Japanese. The objective of this course is to enable students to understand and produce basic information on their areas of expertise.
In this course, students will be able to brush up on all four Japanese skills (reading, listening, writing, and speaking) as below.
- Speaking and listening practices: interactive communication, speech, and presentation
- Reading practices: reading textbooks, learning grammatical items and sentence patterns
- Integrated practices: writing reports, speaking about their report, listening to other students, etc.
In addition, students will have a chance to carry out their learning plan autonomously with a lecturer's support.
This course is designed for students at the preliminary level of Japanese.
Students will be taught Japanese basic sentence patterns, basic grammar, and how to read/write Japanese letters. The objective of this course is to enable students to use simple Japanese to communicate with others in communities familiar to students.
This course is for students in the upper elementary level of Japanese. The purpose of this course is to enable students to explain themselves and have simple communication in Japanese. This course provides students with the knowledge of vocabularies, grammatical items, Kanji, and conversational expressions at a basic level speaking and writing about their own experience and thoughts.
Russian is one of the most important and interesting languages in the world. Learning the language will give you another window through which you will see a new world. The structure of Russian is different from those of English and Japanese. It is always difficult to learn a new foreign language, but it is exciting and challenging.
Diesen Kurs kann man besuchen, wenn man den Intensivkurs G3 abgeschlossen hat und das A2-Niveau des Europaeischen Referenzrahmens (GER) erreicht hat. Trainiert wird Lesen, Schreiben, Hoeren und Sprechen. Der Kurs bietet den Teilnehmern die Gelegenheit, weiterhin regelmaessig Deutsch zu lernen und den Stoff des Intensivkurs zu wiederholen und zu erweitern.
Skill-Kurs G 5: Der Kurs ist die Fortsetzung des G4-Kurses im letzten Semester. Hier koennen Sie Ihren Wortschatz erweitern und die Grammatik festigen, die sie schon aus der G2, G3 und G4 kennen. Somit ist dieser Kurs auch eine gute Vorbereitung auf die B1-Pruefung (Goethe Zertifikat B1) des Goethe-Instituts. Alle Studierenden koennen teilnehmen, die die G4-Klasse erfolgreich abschlossen haben oder auf Niveau B1.1 lernen. Wir empfehlen den Studierenden, auch an dem G5-Kurs (Freitag 4. Stunde) teilzunehmen (gleiches Lehrbuch).
Skill-Kurs G 5: Der Kurs ist die Fortsetzung des G4-Kurses im letzten Semester. Hier koennen Sie Ihren Wortschatz erweitern und die Grammatik festigen, die sie schon aus der G2, G3 und G4 kennen. Somit ist dieser Kurs auch eine gute Vorbereitung auf die B1-Pruefung (Goethe Zertifikat B1) des Goethe-Instituts. Wir empfehlen dringend, an beiden Kursen (Montag 3. Stunde und Freitag 4. Stunde) teilzunehmen. An beiden Tagen arbeiten wir mit dem gleichen Lehrbuch (Menschen B1.2, Module 5-8). Alle Studierenden koennen teilnehmen, die die G4-Klasse erfolgreich abschlossen haben oder auf Niveau B1.1 lernen.
Diesen Kurs kann man besuchen, wenn man den Intensivkurs G3 abgeschlossen hat und das A2-Niveau des Europaeischen Referenzrahmens (GER) erreicht hat. Trainiert wird Lesen, Schreiben, Hoeren und Sprechen. Der Kurs bietet den Teilnehmern die Gelegenheit, weiterhin regelmaessig Deutsch zu lernen und den Stoff des Intensivkurs zu wiederholen und zu erweitern.
This skill-course prepares you to participate in a German course at a university in German-speaking areas during the spring holidays. It will help you choose and apply for a university or course close to your field of study, as well as prepare for the fieldwork you will be carrying out during your stay. This skill-course is not necessarily linked to your stay in German-speaking areas in spring of 2023; you can also take it if you plan to travel at a later date. Please note that due to the circumstances of COVID-19, there could be various situations, for example, that German courses at universities in German-speaking countries are not available, that travel to German-speaking areas is generally not permitted, that Keio University does now allow students to take part in language courses abroad etc. Therefore, in parallel with the preparation for the German course abroad, this semester we will also offer content about German-speaking areas.
This course is designed to help students acquire through various activities an in-depth knowledge of citizenship within intercultural situations and specifically French-speaking cultures.
Intercultural competences are not a simple complement in language and culture learning, but also in learning itself. Through language activities, you acquire profound skill of critical thinking about differences and conflicts among views of life and death or among values, while exploiting your own experience on language learning and various alterities. This course helps students to understand in depth “citizenship” and “social majority”, and to develop self-reliance on language use in social life and face-to-face dialogue.
This course is designed to help students improve oral interpretation and translation skills while using news clips and various interviews.
Oral interpretation consists of arranging immediately and properly the given statements, and of expressing them in other language without delay. While accuracy is certainly important, it is necessary, in some cases, to sort out the information that needs to be interpreted and transmitted. In order to achieve this, it is indispensable, not only to have effective listening skills, but also to enrich your vocabulary in advance.
By contrast, translation requires researching important documents without haste, helping readers to understand better by adding explanatory notes where needed. All of this is necessary to achieve excellent translation qualities.
Thus, interpretation and translation are distinct operations. This course, however, plans somewhat ambitiously to develop both skills at the same time.
Note that translations made by students will be posted on Facebook.
This course is designed to help students improve their own reading comprehension skill. Reading materials, selected by teacher and students on the first day of class, will be photocopied and distributed.
Les questions de société sont vastes et peuvent être abordées à travers de nombreux médias. Dans ce cours, à travers l’étude de texte en français (des articles, des textes littéraires, des paroles de chanson, etc.), nous aborderons des questions de société variée.
Dans un premier temps, nous prendrons le temps de lire et comprendre les textes de façon plus ou moins détaillés en fonction des séances. Puis, nous mettrons en évidence les thèmes et problématiques relatives au texte. Pour enfin, finir par une discussion sur les thèmes et problématiques mis en évidence.
For a proper communication using four skills (listening, speaking, reading, and writing), we must have a good knowledge of French grammar. This course is designed to help students review basic elements of grammar learned through Intensive courses, and go on to a higher level of competency in French language. We will explain grammar items such as perfect indicative, imperfect indicative, pluperfect indicative, preterit indicative, future, conditional, and subjunctive.
This course is designed to help students improve their oral communication skill necessary for the TCF (Test de connaissance du français) or various interviews. In these types of communication, it is important to understand speakers correctly, and also to express your own opinion clearly and logically with appropriate vocabulary. Furthermore, it is desirable to be acquainted with current topics and cultural issues. In this course, the focus will be put on these aspects in order to develop students’ oral communication skill.
N.B. This course is open to all students who satisfy the requirement a) or b) if they do not plan to take the TCF.
This course is designed to help students improve their academic skills in French. Each session will be devoted to discussion training on a specific subject or, upon request, to academic writing exercises and oral presentation. More detailed information will be provided on the first day of class.
The demand for skilled labors that are able to comprehend Chinese language grows steadily with the remarkable economic development in China. In order to respond to the social needs, The Chinese language test (Chuken) and the new HSK test have also been gradually standardized over recent years.
In this course, students, who have no previous knowledge on the Chinese language test (Chuken) and the new HSK test, are expected to have a thorough understanding on different types of questions asked as well as the tendency of the tests through various kinds of exercise. Furthermore, the grammatical inaccuracies that commonly seen in students whose native language is Japanese will be addressed and the corresponding adequate grammars are to be explained in details in this course. In the meanwhile, we will also conduct some exercises using course materials and short videos intended to improve your Chinese listening skills. Through this kind of systematic learning, we aim to significantly improve your overall Chinese language skills over the semester.
In this lecture, we will watch Chinese video materials and present a summary of the contents and cultural differences, commonalities, linguistic expressions, etc. between Japan and China in Chinese. After that, the students are divided into groups and have discussions based on the content of the presentation.
The purpose of this course is to improve Chinese reading and speaking ability. Suitable for students interested in Chinese society. In class, you will read the original Chinese texts about various hot topics in current Chinese society, learn Chinese expressions, and practice how to express your views in Chinese.
The virtual space platform will be used in the class, and various Chinese dialogue exercises will be carried out on this platform.