Japanese for Travelers

Embark on Your Japanese Adventure: A Beginner's Guide

Ready to explore Japan? This course provides a comprehensive introduction to the Japanese language and culture, equipping you with the essential skills for a smooth and enjoyable trip.

• Assess Your Current Knowledge: Begin with a quick quiz to gauge your existing familiarity with Japan and Japanese.
• Essential Phrases: Learn fundamental Japanese phrases to get you started.
• Getting There: Navigate the travel process with information on airline travel, customs, and immigration procedures. We'll introduce the basics of Japanese sentence structure – it's easier than you think! Pronunciation is made simple with a clear Romanization system.
• Settling In: Master practical language skills for daily life, including managing money, using transportation, and booking accommodations. Learn to count, describe locations, and express the existence of things.
• Explore Japan: Discover the language needed for sightseeing, navigating cities, enjoying delicious food and drink, dining at restaurants, shopping, and sending packages. We'll cover prepositions of direction, the continuous form (used as an imperative), direct objects, possessives, two types of adjectives, and expressing desires.
• Emergency Preparedness: Learn key phrases and vocabulary for staying healthy, finding medical assistance (doctors and hospitals), and handling potential emergencies. We'll cover how to change adjectives and verbs between present and past tenses, and transform adjectives into adverbs.
• Course Review & Final Test: Consolidate your learning with a brief review and a short, friendly 20-question final test.
• Travel Advice: Benefit from valuable tips and advice for travelers to Japan.

Don't let the language barrier deter you! This course gives you a solid foundation for a successful trip to Japan. Let's begin your journey!