Recognise and reproduce features of the Japanese sound system, including pitch, accent, rhythm and intonation

Become familiar with how sounds are produced and represented in the three different scripts katakana, hiragana and kanji

Pronounce all the sounds in the kana chart, including voiced and unvoiced sounds てんてん and まる, combined and long vowel sounds and double consonants, for example, たって and
りょうり

(ACLJAU012)

Recognise the relationship between the character-based scripts of hiragana, katakana and kanji

Apply the basic principles of stroke order to read and write simple texts using all hiragana, and simple high frequency kanji, for example, 人 (じん・にん) 、 才 (さい) 、 月 (がつ) 、and numbers 1 to 10

Recognise all hiragana, including voiced, contracted and blended sounds, combined and long vowel sounds and double consonants, using the kana chart

Use furigana to support the reading of unfamiliar kanji

(ACLJAU013)

Generate language for a range of purposes in simple spoken and written texts, by recognising and using  context-related vocabulary and elements of the Japanese grammatical system, including:

• understanding the rule that Japanese sentences end with a predicate and that there are three types of predicates, noun plus copula, adjective plus copula, and verb, for example,
  • subject は noun  です。
  • subject は adjective  です。
  • subject が　います。
• recognising that pronouns are used far less frequently in Japanese than in English
• understanding and using a range of particles to perform different functions, for example,
  • が (subject, topic marker: ～が 好 (す) きです、
    ～がいます)
  • の (possession)
  • と (and, with)
  • も (also)
• understanding the role of sentence-ending particles, such as か and ね
• understanding that the word order of noun phrases is not important as long as they appear before the verb and are accompanied by correct particles
• understanding how to use い and な adjectives in the present tense in basic sentences, such as たのしいです。; ゆうめいです。
• understanding and responding to formulaic expressions that use て form, such as 見 (み) て　ください。; トイレに 行 (い) っても　いい　ですか
• creating cohesion and flow using conjunctions, for example, そして、 それから、 でも
• counting from 1 to 1000 一 (いち) ～ 千 (せん)
• using common counters and classifiers, such as ～ 人 (にん) 、 ～ 才 (さい) 、 ～ 月 (がつ) 、～ 時 (じ)
• understanding the use of こそあどseries in concrete contexts, for example, これ、 それ、 あれ、 どれ
• building vocabulary that relates to familiar environments, such as self, the family and personal world
• understanding the use of the prefixes お and ご before some words to indicate respect, for example, おなまえは？、ごかぞく
• identifying similarities and differences in Japanese and English grammatical rules relating to word order or the use of elements, such as pronouns

Build metalanguage to talk about vocabulary and grammar concepts

(ACLJAU014)

Identify and use text structures and language features of common spoken, written and multimodal texts, and compare with structures and features of similar texts in English

(ACLJAU015)

Examine linguistic features in texts to develop an understanding that languages vary according to elements, such as register

Understand that Japanese, like all languages, varies according to participants, roles and relationships, situations and cultures

(ACLJAU016)

Recognise that Japanese is a standardised language and that there are different dialects spoken in different regions of Japan and Japanese-speaking communities in Hawaii and Brazil

(ACLJAU017)

Explore the relationship between language and culture

(ACLJAU018)