- Eligibility
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- Those who are learning Japanese for the first time or who have studied a little in the past but do not remember much.
- Focus and Achievement Goals
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- Focus is on conversation, but you will also learn how to read and write in Hiragana and Katakana.
- The study of Hiragana and Katakana
- Useful daily expressions
- Greetings, self-introduction, telling time, counting, shopping, using the telephone, coming, going, giving, receiving, inviting, offering, requesting, asking for permission, expressing a wish, progressive verb forms etc.
- Vocabularies of more than 800 words, including 86 adjectives and 50 verbs
- Textbook
- "Japanese for Busy People Vol.1" (by Kodansha International)
MLC original "Survival Japanese"
(1,000 yen → FREE)
- Program of study
- Number of lessons required
90 minutes x 20-32 lessons (varies depending on the learner's situation, frequency of lessons, and length of each lesson)
| Class | Lesson | Grammar Points |
|---|---|---|
| １, 2 | - | Use MLC Original Textbook “Survival Japanese Course”. Useful daily expressions, Basic structures, Self-introduction, Shopping, Ordering and payment at a restaurant, Expressions for train and tax |
| 3 | 1 | "This is ...", "Is this ...?" |
| 4 | 2 | "This is not ...", "... of ..." Telephone numbers,
"What", "1, 2, 3, 4 ... 9" |
| 5 | 3 | "from ... to ...", "... o’clock", "... minutes", "When", "10 ..... 100" |
| 6 | 4 | "this/that", "Please give me ...", "1,000yen", "10,000yen" |
| 7 | 5 | "this .../that ...", counters, "Which", "Where" |
| 8, 9 | 6 | "come/go", "with ...", "alone", "yesterday/today/tomorrow", "last week/this week/next week" |
| 10, 11 | 7 | "by means of ...", "at [time]", month, day of the month, day of the week |
| 12 | 8 | Verbs, object marker "O", "can not ... anything", "one person/two persons ..." |
| 13 | 9 | Indirect object marker "NI", "every ...", Frequency, Family name |
| 14 | 10 | Adjectives (present tense), extent, "What kind of" |
| 15 | 11 | Adjectives (past tense), "but", "How long/How many/How much" |
| 16 | 12 | "There is/are ...", "no one", "on/under/inside/in front of/ext to/nearby", "and so on" |
| 17 | 13 | "There is/are [quantity] ...", "... is/are on/in ...", "many" |
| 18 | 14 | "give/receive", "lend/borrow", "have", "Because ..." |
| 19 | 15 | "be good at ...", "I like [noun]/...ing.”, Verb dictionary form |
| 20 | 16 | "There is [an event/accident] at ...", "Will you ...?", "Let’s ...", "..., so... " |
| 21 | 17 | "want to ...", "don't want to ...", "before [noun]/...ing" |
| 22 | 18 | Verb te-form, "..., and then ...", "after ..." |
| 23 | 19 | "Please (do) ...", "by means of ...", "turn ..." |
| 24 | 20 | "get on ... from ...", "get off ... at ...", "How", "take [time]", time period |
| 25 | 21 | "May I ...?", " ... WA ... GA [adj.]" |
| 26 | 22 | Verb nai-form, "Please do not ..." |
| 27 | 23 | "be ...ing", "Have you already ...?" |
| 28 | 24 | "live in ...", "work for ...", "understand ...", "know/don't know" |