JAPANESE CLASSES FOR ALL LEVELS
The Yoshida Institute of Japanese Language offers a wide variety of classes for students seeking to learn Japanese. Whether you're a complete beginner or an advanced student, we can help you! Come learn Japanese in the exciting city of Tokyo!
Full-time, daily intensive classes
For students seeking to study Japanese intensively in order to enter a Japanese
university, college, vocational school or just to study rigorously, we offer full-time, daily intensive classes.
Classes are held five days a week in the morning or in the afternoon. Each class runs for a little over three hours and during that time students work on improving speaking, reading, writing and listening skills.
Beginning students focus on basic grammar and speaking skills while students in advanced courses learn to understand TV and radio programs and read Japanese literature. Three-months terms start at the beginning of January, April, July and October.
Our next term begins April 06, 2010.
2010 July, college student visa registration until March 20.
Integration of the statuses of residence
In order to ensure the stable stay of foreign students, these two statuses will be integrated into
"College student". Students with the status of "Pre-college student" do not have to change their
status to "College student" after the enforcement of the law as long as there are no changes in their educational activities.
Effective date: The actual date of enforcement is July 1, 2010.
Changing Your Visa
For those already working in Japan on working holiday visa or some other type of working visa, it is possible to change your visa to a college student visa without leaving the country. Please contact us for more information.
Student Life Photo Galleries
The photos in this Student Life Gallery Page depicts the life of Yoshida Institute students. Click here, to discover the gallery of images from each event. We went to Nikko on Monday, November 02, 2009.
LEARNING JAPANESE
At first, learning Japanese may seem like a daunting task, for the grammar is completely different from
European languages and the writing system ornate - two alphabets mixed with a ideographic character system adapted from Chinese. But if you just relax and start with the basics, you'll find that learning
the language is not as difficult as it sounds.
Beginners can start by learning how to read and write the KANA on our
hiragana and katakana pages.
We at Yoshida have developed a special kanji study guide to help you with your test preparations.
The study guide is broken up into levels corresponding to the JLPT levels (
level-N5,
level-N4,
level-N3,
level-N2,
level-N1).
For example, if you are preparing for the level N5 test, then you'll need to know all the kanji listed in our level N4 study guide;
for the level N4 test, you'll need to know all the kanji in level N5 plus level N4, and so on.
Please give it a try and let us know what you think.
The right KANJI is "かなら-ず, ひつ".
必 means "certainly, surely, without fail, by all means, always, invariably,
necessarily, inevitably" in English.
(ex.)Be sure to wash your hands before meals.
(tr.)食事の前に必ず手を洗いなさい。
(shokujino maeni kanarazu teo arainasai.)
(ex.)They never meet without quarreling.
(tr.)彼らは会えば必ずけんかをする。
(karerawa aeba kanarazu kenkao suru.)
A pair of KANJI--必要(necessity,need), 必死(desperate, frantic)
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