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japanese for beginners

Are you looking to learn Japanese for beginners in London? If you’re a beginner, our Japanese classes for beginners are a great way to start your language learning journey. Our classes are held in Aldgate Central London, and are limited to small groups to ensure each student learn well with our native Japanese teacher and other fellow students.

In each of our Japanese beginner lessons, it’s always fun and social. You will learn essential Japanese greetings, useful words and cultural customs. You will also learn to read and write Hiragana and Katakana lesson by lesson. Even if you have learnt Hiragana and Katakana already, our Beginner 1 Course is still the right one for you, since your teacher will focus on helping you with natural pronunciations, Japanese grammar functions and most importantly conversational practise from the beginning.

If you’re looking for Japanese lessons for beginners near you, look no further! Book a Japanese Beginner 1 course to kick start now.

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Japanese Beginner 1 Course

Our Japanese Beginner 1 Course is designed for complete beginners to learn Japanese Hiragana as foundation. You will learn to read 46 Hiragana smoothly, practise natural pronunciation in each lesson.  Our topics in this course include greetings, introduction, numbers, shopping, travel plans and whereabouts.   Our key grammar points covered include: basic sentence structure, pronouns and ownership, -desu and -masu forms, and some basic verbs.  

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Beginner 2.

Lesson Topics

Lesson 1 – Greeting
Lesson 2 – Introductions
Lesson 3 – Numbers
Lesson 4 – Shopping 1
Lesson 5 – Shopping 2
Lesson 6 – Talk about your action plan
Lesson 7 – Talk about travel arrangements
Lesson 8 – Talk about destinations
Lesson 9 – Talk about whereabouts of things and people
Lesson 10 – Total review and consolidate

japanese beginner course textbook

Japanese beginner 2 Course

Our Japanese Beginner 2 Course is designed for students with Hiragana foundation and roughly 150 vocabularies already. In this course, students will continue to practise Hiragana reading and writing, we will introduce 46 Katakana too. In each lesson, students will practise natural pronunciation and conversations about daily activities, going to restaurants, visiting local Japanese places, gifting and offering help etc. Our key grammar points covered include: how to use adjectives for description, more verbs in -masen ka, -masho, -masho ka form, and how to make request and invitation to people

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Beginner 3.

Lesson Topics

Lesson 1 – Recap and warm up practise
Lesson 2 – Daily activity
Lesson 3 – Order food
Lesson 4 – Give compliments
Lesson 5 – Express gratitude
Lesson 6 – Conversation practise
Lesson 7 – Give or receive gifts
Lesson 8 – Make invitation
Lesson 9 – Offer or ask for help
Lesson 10 – Review and presentations

japanese beginner course textbook

Japanese Beginner 3 Course

The course of advanced beginners are designed for students with Hiragana and Katakana foundation and with 300+ words vocabularies.
In this course, students will continue to practise Hiragana and Katakana. In each lesson, students will practise natural pronunciation and conversations about personal schedules, preference, desire, permission and a confident two minutes self introduction.
Our key grammar points covered include: the important -Te form, -nai form and -tai form, asking for permission and ask someone to do something, the difference of progressive action and current status.

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Elementary 1.

Lesson Topics

Lesson 1 – Recap and warm up practise
Lesson 2 – Schedules in details
Lesson 3 – Transportation
Lesson 4 – Ask for permission
Lesson 5 – You shouldn’t!
Lesson 6 – Mid term conversation practise
Lesson 7 – What are you doing?
Lesson 8 – Confident self-introduction
Lesson 9 – I want to…
Lesson 10 – Review and presentations