Professional Japanese: The Workplace (L5)

By the end

What you'll build

• Write Japanese business emails using the standard formulas
• Practise hourensou — the reporting habit Japanese workplaces expect
• Understand nemawashi and why the meeting is not where decisions happen
• Read indirect refusals and know when a yes is not a yes
• Handle the meeting, the exchange of cards and the nomikai
• Handle a Japanese job interview and its distinctive questions

Curriculum

What's inside

2 modules · 9 lessons

1. 01

   Written Japanese and the Reporting Habit

   3 lessons
   • The Business Email Is Mostly Formula
   • Writing Lab: A Business Emailwriting lab
   • Register and Reportingfill blank
2. 02

   Meetings, Decisions and Refusals

   6 lessons
   • Nemawashi — The Meeting Isn't Where It Happens
   • Listening: A Japanese Meetinglistening lab
   • Reading the Refusalfill blank
   • Speaking Lab: Report and Raise a Problemspeaking lab
   • The Japanese Job Interviewinterview lab
   • + 1 more lesson

The shape of it

How this course works