| 1 | Distinguishes tenses and aspect category in target language |
| 2 | Distinguish between present tense and perfective structures. |
| 3 | Distinguish the structures of the past tense and the imperfective aspect |
| 4 | Distinguish past tense and perfective structures |
| 5 | Knows and uses time expressions |
| 6 | Knows positive-negative-question sentence structures |
| 7 | Performs syntactic couplings using suffixes |
| 8 | Can read and write 280 kanji with basic kanjis and their variants |