Japanese Courses in Leicester
Our native-speaking, fully-qualified trainers will incorporate your needs into a personalised Japanese course that will address your individual learning goals. If you are studying for personal or business reasons, alone or with a group, Language Trainers will provide classes that will improve your communication and help you exceed your own expectations. Your trainer can teach classes at your home or workplace, and will arrange a time that is most convenient for you, whether it be morning, afternoon, or evening, during the week, or at the weekend.
The Language Trainers Needs Analysis form is the best way to get an in-depth breakdown of the best possible options for arranging your language course.
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One-to-one General/Business
Japanese Course in Leicester
It doesn't matter if you want to learn Japanese for business or pleasure - our customised language courses will help you get where you want to be.
A General course in Japanese will grant you 'Survival Japanese' - enough under your belt to furnish you with a working knowledge for the purpose of visiting the country, allowing you to introduce yourself and engage in conversation with native speakers. Business courses are great for those whose career will be moving overseas - you would learn the fundamental protocols for engaging in business in Japanese, and later would start to focus more on the integral skills of reading and writing.
The exact syllabus is not determined simply in terms of 'General' or 'Business' - the course is tailor-made to your needs. If, as a Business student, you need extra focus on telephone or email communication, or vocabulary from a specific field of business, you only need mention this to your tutor. In the same vein, the syllabus for General courses is not set in stone - all you need do is ask your teacher.
Typical Business course students include those in international import/export, those hoping to gain acquisitions in foreign countries, those within multinational corporations, and people who do business with foreign institutions and governments. General courses in Japanese suit those hoping to emigrate to foreign shores, people with a view to travel to countries where Japanese is the vernacular tongue, those with a keen interest in Japanese culture and language, and people with foreign spouses.
› Two-to-One and Small Group - Japanese Course in Leicester (closed group)
City information
The biggest city in the East Midlands; Leicester is one of England's really multi-cultural cities, with a particularly large (around 30%) proportion of the metropolitan area's population originating from the south Asian subcontinent. In a substantial city like Leicester, this amounts to almost 100,000 people. In fact, outside of London, only Slough has a greater ethnic diversity.
All this as well as the 2 universities makes Leicester a great place to pick up new languages, no matter what your current level may be. Whether you want to start learning Hindi or Urdu, or a less exotic tongue like French, German or Spanish, there are plenty of qualified native-speaking teachers around the city who can get you started in no time.
Language information
Japanese is a tough language for a westerner to pick up, but this is mainly due to the fact that it has several basic differences from most European languages. Once a learner of Japanese has got their head around these distinctions, the language is actually surprisingly logical in the way it works.
Spoken by around 130 million people around the world, Japanese employs 3 different 'alphabets' simultaneously. A single sentence could contain characters from all three writing systems, which can be very confusing for learners as one writing system, Kanji, is entirely non-syllabic - that is to say, you either know the character, its meaning, and how to read it; or you don't. With over 2,000 Kanji characters in daily use (most of which have several readings depending on how they are used), reading and writing Japanese fluently can be something you could study your whole life and never master.
However, even with such difficulties as this and the honorific system (using different words and grammar depending on who you are speaking to), Japanese is an intensely interesting language to learn, and the basics can be picked up with little problem. There are many aspects of the culture in Japan that can only really be gleaned with a working knowledge of the Japanese language.
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