Level 1

Level 1 includes:

■ 14.75 hours of on-demand videos
■ 20 downloadable learning materials (80 pages)
■ Discussion area
Each short tutorial video has a discussion area so that you can post whatever you need to clarify. Miki replies within 24 hours.
■ Personal pronunciation assessment
Send your voice file to Miki directly. You will receive her feedback within 48 hours.

Objectives - Level 1 (Lessons 1 -10)

What you will learn:

・Japanese social distance
・3 different ways of speaking and writing (polite/plain/honorific)
・The difference between polite form and plain form
・Japanese pronunciation and pitch accent
・Traditional soft pronunciation tips
・Japanese writing and reading system
・Self-taught Japanese characters and the writing order rules
・Basic greetings and phrases
・Common Japanese acknowledgement expressions
・Numbers from 1 to 100,000 (and use of o'clock, minute, hours, age)
・Noun/Adjective/Verb sentence structure
・2 types of adjective
・Use of Japanese particles
・Polite form of verb conjugation
・3 different Ko-So-A-Do-System (physical distance between the speaker and the listener)
・Expressions using 'who/when/how much'
・How to ask “Is this A or B?”
・Reading test - Japanese words which you know well ← This is in Lesson 10

[Bonus Lesson] after Lesson 5
・Setting up Japanese input for your devices
・Typing the Japanese language