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Professional Japanese: The Workplace (L5)

CEFR B1–B2 · The Japanese office runs on hourensou, nemawashi and a great deal of apologising — plus a business email register with fixed formulas you can learn wholesale.

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2 modules 9 lessons 10 enrolled ~16h of material
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

The shape of it

How this course works

Short lessons

9 lessons across 2 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.