Learn Japanese, one live hour at a time.

Japanese pronunciation is friendly for English speakers: it has five clear vowels and few difficult sounds. Writing is the big challenge: Japanese mixes three scripts, two sound alphabets (hiragana and katakana, about 46 characters each) and kanji, characters borrowed from Chinese. Politeness is built into the grammar, so today we use the polite です/ます forms you would use with people you have just met.

Every class is for complete beginners, taught in English, at most 12 people, and comes with its phrase sheet. Pick the one that sounds most like you.

Japanese · Anime

Anime Japanese

Understand the Japanese you hear in anime, and know which of it you can safely say to real people.

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Japanese · Travel

Tokyo Trip Japanese

Handle the konbini, the trains and a ramen shop in Tokyo with simple, polite Japanese.

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Japanese · Flirting

Flirting in Japanese

Start a friendly conversation, give a compliment, ask someone out and say or hear no gracefully, in polite Japanese.

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Japanese · Start here

Japanese for Beginners

Greet people, introduce yourself and order at a café in Japanese.

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Phrase Club Pass

Every class, in every language: anime Japanese on Monday, flirting in French on Friday. One monthly payment, cancel any time. Choose it when you book your first class.

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