Availability
Years 9-10

Qualification
RoSA

Learning Japanese provides the opportunity for students to engage with the linguistic and cultural diversity of Japan and the Japanese people. The study of Japanese provides access to the language and culture of one of the global community’s most technologically advanced societies and economies. Students will engage with elements of modern Japan, including popular culture such as anime, manga and fashion, as well as with the rich tradition of this part of Asia.

The ability to communicate in Japanese provides incentives for travel and for more meaningful interactions with speakers of Japanese, encouraging sociocultural understanding between Australia and Japan. Students will learn how to communicate both in spoken and written Japanese. Students will learn how to read and write the scripts of hiragana, katakana and kanji.