Your first step to speak Japanese

This course is designed for complete beginners to learn Japanese Hiragana as foundation. You will learn to read 46 Hiragana smoothly, practise natural pronunciation and conversations in each lesson. Our topics in this course include greetings, introduction, numbers, shopping, travel plans and whereabouts.  Our key grammar points covered include: basica 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 /Introductions
Lesson 2 – Numbers
Lesson 3 – Possessions (-no desu.)
Lesson 4 – Time
Lesson 5 – Mid course review
Lesson 6 – Shopping (kono/ano/sono)
Lesson 7 – Basic adjectives
Lesson 8 – Basic verbs
Lesson 9 – Verb conjugations
Lesson 10 – Total review & presentations

Our Japanese Beginner 3 Course is designed for students with Hiragana and Katakana foundation and with 200+ words vocabularies. In this course, students will continue to practise Hiragana and Katakana, and learn 30 very interesting basic Kanji. In each lesson, students will practise natural pronunciation and conversations about gifting and offering, preference and desire, connecting a few sentences, and a confident two minutes self introduction. Our key grammar points covered include: more verbs in -masen ka, -masho, -masho ka form, and how to make request and invitation.

If you have learnt all of these, you can consider taking the next course – Beginner 4.

Lesson Topics

Lesson 1 – Recap and warm up practise
Lesson 2 – Asking for directions
Lesson 3 – Giving and receiving
Lesson 4 – Preferences
Lesson 5 – Mid course review
Lesson 6 – Dictionary verb form
Lesson 7 – Suggestions
Lesson 8 – I want to (conjugation)
Lesson 9 – Verb te- form (serial verbs)
Lesson 10 – Total review & presentation

The course of advanced beginners is designed for students with Hiragana and Katakana foundation and with 300+ words vocabularies. In this course, students will continue to practise Hiragana and Katakana and learn 30 very interesting basic Kanji. In each lesson, students will practise natural pronunciation and conversations about request, describe route, permission, forbid, present continuous tense.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 – Making a request
Lesson 3 – Direction & Transportation
Lesson 4 – Asking Permission
Lesson 5 – Mid course review
Lesson 6 – Forbidding actions
Lesson 7 – Explaining Actions
Lesson 8 – Present continue 1
Lesson 9 – Present continue 2
Lesson 10 – Total review & presentation

Our Japanese Upper Intermediate 1 Course is designed for learners to finished level 3 or are able to as below.

• Experienced Japanese learner for at least 1 year
• Can memorize 1000+ vocabularies, familiar with a few more hundreds
• Have good foundation of Level 3 grammar and expressions
• Can converse with a native Japanese speaker on various topics including complex subjects about career pursuit, environmental protection, simple social, political and economic news etc.
• Have a knowledge of 400 or less Kanji

In this course, students will continue to practise reading, writing and conversational skills in each lesson, our teacher will design each lesson to best cater to the class of students.