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Choosing the Japanese school you’ll study at can be a very difficult thing to do, as you often have almost no way to know if the language school’s website is accurate, or if the school even really exists at all! This is part of the reason that some students choose to book their study through a trusted agency instead. It’s also the reason why GenkiJACS places such a high importance on our accreditation by IALC, the premier international language school accrediting organization. Their accreditation means that you can trust that the school has been inspected by a professional inspector, and found to meet their high standards.
But I wanted to mention another factor that is often overlooked when comparing language schools, the length of classes. Most schools offer either 3 or 4 classes per day as their core package, and of course a school offering 4 classes should be a third more expensive than a school offering only 3 classes per day. But it’s important to check the length of each class as well. Most schools run 45-minute classes. At Genki Japanese, however, our classes are 50 minutes long each. Let’s do the math:
4 classes per day, 45 minutes each = 15 hours per week
4 classes per day, 50 minutes each = 16 hours 40 minutes per week
Difference: 1 hour 40 minutes, or 11% extra per week!
So even if two schools are priced the same, if one of them offers 50-minute classes, you get 11% more study time!
Does this mean that our teachers work harder than teachers at other schools? We like to think so, and it’s all for you! If you need any more information, check out Genki Japanese language school website, or email us!
