Description
JAPANESE
BLS Adult Autumn Term Language Courses 2024: Accelerate your language learning
Beginner Level 1 Course (CEFR A1.1): [Tutor Shiho] online course
Tuesday, 7.30-9pm, 8 x 90 min. lessons [on 03, 10, 17, 24 September & 01, 08, 15, 22 October 2024] £125 Course Programme
Beginner Level 2 Course (CEFR A1.1): [Tutor Shiho] online course
Wednesday, 6.20-7.50pm, 8 x 90 min. lessons [on 04, 11, 18, 25 September & 02, 09, 16, 23 October 2024] £125 Course Programme
Japanese
Learning Japanese has never been more interesting and amusing than it is today.
Japanese constitutes the unique language family ‘Japonic’, and it is the ninth most spoken of all the existing languages, with over 121 million of its speakers centred in Japan as of 2009. By this year, too, the number of Japanese learners outside the country had reached above 3.5 million–a figure indicating a sharp 75 per cent increase from around 2 million in 1998 and anticipating a continuous trend for many years to come.
Japanese pop culture now receives international acclaim. Japanese manga, anime, music, cinema, cuisine, and fashion, among others, are greatly enjoyed around the world, and ‘Cool Japan’ is widely circulated to describe the country’s reinventing global cultural influence (the term is officially adopted by the Government as a promotional slogan for Japanese cultural industry). A knowledge of Japanese will allow a fuller enjoyment of the various attractions that ‘Cool Japan’ offers. Needless to say, a good command of Japanese is essential to enter the Japanese job market as well as desirable for tourists to enrich their experience in Japan.
written by Lawrence Masakazu Yoneta
Jed Warman (verified owner) –
Thanks again for putting all the effort in and helping me learn Japanese vocabulary it’s definitely worthwhile!
Debbie (verified owner) –
The course was both interesting and fun, I would highly recommend it for getting the basics in place in a supportive group session. Thanks Shiho