This course is for people who are completely new to learning Japanese. This course can help you build a solid foundation for further learning!

What you’ll learn

• Understand the basic features of the Japanese language

• How to read/write Hiragana & Katakana

• How to pronounce long&short vowels, voiced sounds, double consonants, and contracted sounds

• Understand the Japanese pronunciation (pitch accent and rhythm)

• Must-know facts about the Japanese language and culture

This course is for people who can read Hiragana and Katakana but don’t know how to make sentences. Students will be able to build basic sentences and express themselves in Japanese.

What you’ll learn

• Introduce yourself

• Greetings

• Number, day, time, month, date, price, Japanese counting system

• Particles (は、か、も、と、の、を、に、で、ね、よ)

• Talk about the locations of things

• Express with adjectives (present & past tense)

• Express with verbs (present & past tense)

• Ask questions using interrogatives (What/Where/Who/When/How)

• Express suggestions (Let’s/Shall we~?)

• Express give/receive

• Talk about what you want/don’t want to do

• Talk about what you like/dislike, and what you are good/bad at

• Ask for and explain reasons (Why~?/Because~)

• Talk about your preferences ( Which is more~?/What is the most~?/What kind of ~?)

This course is for people who understand our beginner course's grammar, and want to learn more expressions!

What you’ll learn

• What you can/can’t do (〜ことができます)

• Talk bout your family

• Ask people to do something politely (〜てください)

• Ask for permission (〜てもいいですか？)

• Prohibition (〜てはいけません)

• Continuous tense using te-form

• Ask people not to do something (〜ないでください)

• Express obligation (〜なければいけません)

• Tell people that they don’t have to do (〜なくてもいいです)

• Talk about the existence of things and people (ある/いる)

• From/to

• Talk about fees/distance/time

• Subject marker が

• Verbs Nomilarizer

• Casual forms of verbs and adjectives

• By/until

• Before/After

• Talk about your experience

• List multiple actions (〜たり、〜たりします)

• Express your opinion (〜と思います)

• Reported speech ( 〜と言っていました)

• Conditional forms of verbs and adjectives

• Relative clause

• More counters!

This course is for people who understand our Pre-intermediate course's grammar, and want to learn more expressions!

• Asking reasons and explaining additional contexts (どうして〜んですか？/〜んです)

• Indefinite expressions (なにか/なんでも/なにも)

• Potential form of verbs

• Comparison sentences

• Intransitive verbs and Transitive verbs

• Talk about your plans

• Expression for giving advice (〜たほうがいいです)

• Excessive action or state (〜すぎます)

• Expression of something easy/difficult

• Change of state (make/become)

• Talk about something uncertain (〜かどうか)

• Imperative form of verbs

• Passive form of verbs

• Expression for giving reason (〜ので)

• Talk about a topic (〜について)

• Expression of I’ve heard/it looks like/apparently/it should

• Causative form of verbs

• Causative passive form of bervs

• Super-polite honorific form of verbs

• More counters!

This course is for people who already know basic grammar and want to focus on improving their speaking skills. We’ll discuss your goals and purpose during the first lesson. Based on that, we’ll decide how to proceed with the lessons and create a customized lesson plan for you.

Here are some examples of what we can talk about during lessons!

• Talk about your country

• Talk about your daily life

• Talk about your family

• Talk about what you do

• Talk about what you like

• Talk about the cultural differences between our countries

• Learn some useful phrases when you visit Japan

• Learn some tips for your Japan trip

　…and more!