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
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.