General Japanese Courses

For complete beginners.

Course content:

• Greetings and basic conversation
• Nationalities and countries
• Numbers, times, days of the week, months of the year
• Daily routines, leisure and hobbies 
• Going places and using public transport / taxis
• Describing a place and location 
• Going out
• Shopping 

By the end of the course, you will have a basic ability to communicate in Japanese to ask and answer simple questions and to meet most of your basic daily needs.

For false beginners who already have a basic foundation in Japanese.

Course content:

• Meeting people
• Speaking about yourself and your family
• Jobs and occupations
• Telephoning and making appointments 
• Going places, asking for and giving directions 
• Transport
• Leisure activities and sports
• Likes, dislikes, and preferences
• Describing feelings and personal attributes
• Food and drink - eating out 
• Invitations 
• Giving and receiving 
• Requests and refusals and polite social talk.

By the end of the course, you will be able to communicate effectively in Japanese in a broad range of everyday social and work related situations and to socialise with friends, colleagues or clients.

For people with 1 year previous study of Japanese - able to hold a (simple) conversation on various aspects of their daily life.

Course content:

• Health and fitness - seeing the doctor
• Education and work 
• Describing location and surroundings 
• Holidays, travel and staying at a hotel
• Courteous expressions and their appropriate use 
• Interacting in social and work environments 
• Giving opinions, agreeing and disagreeing 
• Expressing comparison and similarity
• Relating past events
• Discussing future plans 
• Expressing feelings / wishes
• Expressing preferences and giving reasons
• Entertainment and special occasions 
• Japanese etiquette.

By the end of the course, you will have extended your vocabulary, increased our listening comprehension skills, strongly developed your self-confidence and fluency, and be able to communicate confidently in Japanese, using the appropriate level of language, for most social and work related aspects of your daily life.

For people with 2 years previous study of Japanese - who already have a solid grasp of Japanese and are confident in using it in everyday contexts and who wish to develop more advanced conversational skills.

Course content:

• In the workplace
• Travelling for business and pleasure 
• Sightseeing 
• Initiating professional contacts 
• Contracts and rental 
• Business meetings 
• Discussing plans 
• Expressing satisfaction and dissatisfaction, and giving reasons
• Making suggestions 
• Discussing health / work issues 
• Music and entertainment 
• Political, economic, and social trends
• Japanese culture, traditions, myths, do’s and don’ts and taboos 
• Socialising

By the end of the course, you will be able to deal with more complex everyday issues, and to conduct conversations with a high degree of fluency and confidence in a wider range of social and business contexts.

Have you ever found yourself somewhere in Japan and wished that you could speak at least enough Japanese to communicate with the locals, or to socialise with potential business partners, colleagues or clients? If so, this is the course for YOU!

The ultimate objective of our crash course is for you to be able to obtain any information that you need, and to communicate what you want as quickly and effectively as possible.

Course content:

• Meeting people and greetings
• Countries and nationalities 
• Numbers, times, days of the week, months of the year, and dates 
• Interests and hobbies 
• Likes and dislikes 
• Describing feelings 
• Jobs and occupations 
• Telephoning and making appointments 
• Going places, directions, and transportation 
• Eating out 
• Shopping 
• Sightseeing and staying at a hotel
• Socialising

By the end of the course, you will be able to socialise with friends, colleagues or clients, and to meet most of your basic daily needs in areas such as: meeting people and exchanging information; making appointments; giving directions to taxi-drivers; sightseeing; ordering meals in restaurants, and communicating at your hotel and in shops.

For people who want to improve their fluency and increase their self-confidence in Japanese.

You can choose either to join the programme to complement your general Japanese course, or as a stand- alone course. Different levels are available to match any level of ability from Elementary 1 through to Upper-Intermediate level.

At the basic levels, classes include a mix of activities ranging from listening comprehension exercises, role-plays and topic work through to group discussions, all designed to improve your oral Japanese communication skills and confidence.

At the higher levels, classes focus more on group interaction through debates and discussions on chosen topics and contemporary issues, with the aim of encouraging everyone to be more vocal, while learning to express his/her views fluently and coherently.