Japanese on Stage: Voice & Story (L6)

By the end

What you'll build

• Use Japanese proverbs and four-character compounds naturally
• Explain 建前/本音, 我慢, 甘え and 間 as Japanese speakers use them
• Recognise and produce Japanese humour — wordplay, manzai rhythm and timing
• Build an argument for a room that values harmony alongside logic
• Hold a room: pacing, the meaningful pause, presence and recovery
• Deliver a three-minute signature talk in Japanese

Curriculum

What's inside

2 modules · 12 lessons

1. 01

   Idiom, Concept and Colour

   5 lessons
   • The Expressions Nobody Teaches Youmetaphor idiom
   • The Concepts Japanese Uses to Explain Itself
   • Reading the Registerfill blank
   • Japanese Humour
   • Listening: Humour in Conversationlistening lab
2. 02

   Argument and the Signature Talk

   7 lessons
   • How a Japanese Room Wants to Be Persuaded
   • Argument Structurefill blank
   • Holding a Japanese Roompresence lab
   • Building the Signature Talkspeech template
   • Deliver Your Signature Talkspeech practice
   • + 2 more lessons

The shape of it

How this course works