By the end
What you'll build
- Handle thirty everyday Japanese situations with the right words and register
- Use すみません and よろしくお願いします, which do enormous social work
- Navigate trains, IC cards, konbini and the surprising need for cash
- Read the conventions — bowing, shoes, silence, queueing and rubbish sorting
- Understand uchi and soto, and why politeness changes with the group
- Handle health, pharmacy and the practicalities of arriving
Curriculum
What's inside
3 modules · 16 lessons
- 01
First Contact and the Social Rules
5 lessons- The Two Phrases That Do Everything
- Greeting and Meetinglistening lab
- Word Power: The Survival Fifteenword power
- The Unspoken Rules
- Reading the Rulesfill blank
- 02
Shopping, Trains and Getting Help
5 lessons- Listening: At the Convenience Storelistening lab
- Trains, Money and Getting Around
- Listening: At the Stationlistening lab
- Practical Japanfill blank
- Speaking Lab: Your First Weekspeaking lab
- 03
Putting It Together
6 lessons- Word Power: Thirty More Survival Wordsword power
- Listening: A Full Daylistening lab
- Flashcards: Survival Japaneseflashcard sr
- Final Check: Survival Japanesequiz
- Picture It & Speak — AI Image Studioimage lab
- + 1 more lesson
The shape of it
How this course works
Short lessons
16 lessons across 3 modules, each small enough to finish in one sitting.
Practice as you go
Every lesson ends with a small space for what you noticed — the doing is the learning.
A certificate at the end
Finish the course and earn a certificate anyone can verify with a link.
Ready when you are.
Make an account and this course opens up — your progress is saved from the very first lesson.