Japanese Plus Conversation

You won't get far in Japan without being able to speak the language, but using the special curriculum and techniques our teachers have developed, you'll be surprised how easy it is to learn to speak Japanese, and you'll be fluent before you know it! Our Japanese Plus Conversation course uses interesting and modern materials and activities to focus on improving your Japanese speaking ability in a way that gives you the flexibility to adapt to new situations, until

Small-group classes are given both inside and outside of the classroom - you will learn essential communication techniques in structured lessons with the teacher, then practice them in real-world situations, such as:

Calling a movie theater to ask for showtimes Ordering delivery sushi Calling a restaurant to make reservations Giving a questionnaire to people in the park Asking for directions at the train station Buying electronics

 

The Japanese Plus Conversation Course offers the same 20 core classes as the Standard Japanese Course, plus one extra class each day of conversational Japanese. These extra classes focus on some of the interesting aspects of conversational Japanese that it can be hard to cover in the standard classes, such as slang, dialects, specialized vocabulary, and more.

Textbook Used

Beginner level 1: Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Book 1

Beginner level 2 : Genki: An Integrated Course in Elementary Japanese Book 2

Pre-intermediate level: Shin Nihongo no Chuukyuu (from the same series as "Shin Nihongo no Kiso") and J-Bridge to Intermediate Japanese

Intermediate level: Nameraka Nihongo, Nihongo Nama Chuukei, and Office Japanese

Advanced level: materials decided according to each student

 

Standard Weekly Schedule

 

Standard Tuition: 39,900 yen per week

 

Beginner-Level Class Objectives

(Example 2-week course. All classes are adjusted to the specific needs and requests of each student, so this outline is only intended as a guide to common objectives. The specifics of your course may differ from those here.)

1. Greetings (including polite forms)
2. Self-introduction (including polite forms)
3. Noun-sentences (“Watashi ha ~~ desu. Kore ha ~~ desu.”), numbers
4. Simple adjectives
5. Verb sentences (transitive verbs): non-past/past, affirmative/negative, including particles
6. “te”-form (request form)
7. informal speech

Activities:
Telephone (asking phone numbers, asking shop opening times, calling a friend’s house, calling a company)
Asking directions
Making reservations
Shopping (department store, post office, clothes store, drugstore (symptoms, etc.))
Giving a questionnaire to Japanese people

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