Tsubasa Language Services

Updated: 5th Sept 2024

 

Beginner Class (Foundation Studies)
This course is specifically aimed at helping you achieve the following:

Core topics:
-What is Japanese all about?
-Why learn Japanese?
-An Introduction to the writing systems: Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji
-Japanese greetings
-Telling the time
-Everyday expressions : eat, drink, sleep, etc.
-An Introduction to Japanese adjectives

Culture:
-An Introduction to the Psychology of Japanese people
-Watching Japanese dramas
-An Introduction to Japanese prefectures and what they are famous for
-An Introduction to understanding Japanese songs

Textbook:
Foundation Studies Textbook written by us and reviewed by native Japanese speakers

Duration of program: 8 lessons (2 months)
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Beginner Class
In our beginner class, we aim to help you to achieve the following:

Key points: 

• Ability to converse using simple sentences in Japanese
• If you were all by yourself in Japan for a month, you would be able to find your way around

• In this 2-hour class, 30 minutes is allocated for conversation: each student will be asked to converse and ask questions in Japanese (pair work).
• Master at least 150 – 200 Kanji
• Learn basic Business Japanese phrases
• Learn about professional and business ethics as well as how Japanese corporations are run
• Learn more about the Japanese way of life through real-life experiences 
• Introduce you to some Japanese friends who live in Japan and in Singapore
• Continue the understanding of Japanese culture
• Appreciate and understand how to translate Japanese songs and dramas
• Sing Japanese songs
• Be able to take the JLPT N5 exam at the end of the course

At the end of the course, your spoken Japanese will be assessed by a native Japanese speaker in a short oral examination.

Textbook:
Minna no Nihongo 1 (3rd edition) -First in SG to use the 3rd edition

Duration of program: 52 lessons (1 year)
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Intermediate Class
This course is specifically aimed at helping you achieve the following:

Key points: 

• Ability to converse using simple-complex sentences 
• You will be able to speak in Japanese with correct intonation and talk about what you do on a daily basis
• In this 2-hour class, 30 minutes is allocated for conversation: each student will be asked to converse and ask questions in Japanese (pair work)
• Master at least 350 – 500 Kanji
• Learn Business Japanese and ethics
• Understand more about Japanese history through real-life experiences
• Plan your own trip to Japan
• Deepen your understanding of Japanese culture
• Appreciate and understand how to translate Japanese songs and dramas
• Learn N3 advanced sentence structures
• Be able to take the JLPT N4 exam at the end of the course

At the end of the course, your spoken Japanese will be assessed by a native Japanese speaker in a short oral examination.

Textbook:
Minna no Nihongo 2 (3rd edition) -1st in SG to use the 3rd edition

Duration of program: 52 lessons (1 year)
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Pre-Advanced Class

This course is specifically aimed at helping you achieve the following:

• Key point: Ability to converse using complex sentences in Japanese fluently. In this 2-hour class, 30 minutes is allocated for conversation (pair work)

• Able to read the newspaper with the help of a dictionary
• Able to comprehend coherent conversations in everyday situations, spoken at a natural speed
• Master at least 1000 Kanji
• Learn Japanese business manners
• Further deepen your understanding of Japanese culture
• Appreciate and understand how to translate Japanese songs and dramas independently
• Learn some Japanese dialects
• Review your pronunciation and accent
• Review of beginner and intermediate grammar
• Able to take the JLPT N2 or N3 exam at the end of the course

At the end of the course, your spoken Japanese will be assessed by a native Japanese speaker in a short oral examination.

Textbook: Tobira: Gateway to Advanced Japanese
Duration: 1.5 years
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Conversation Class

This course is specifically aimed at helping you achieve the following:

1. Accents

• Learn the 4 Tokyo accents
• Learn how to pronounce words in the correct accent2.Generate the CI

• Understand how your brain works when generating ideas
• Learn how to generate the CI to help you churn out what you want to say
• Understand how Japanese people learn Japanese

• Understand 国語
• Create sentences using the concept of BX4.Feeling injection/music conversation

• Learn how to inject feelings into your conversations
• Understand how Japanese people express their feelings through conversation
• Use music to help you improve your communication skills5. Create complex sentences

• Understand 活用 and 連体形
• Practise saying sentences with complex structures and many more!

At the end of the course, your spoken Japanese will be assessed by a native Japanese speaker in a short oral examination.

Duration of the course:

• Approx. 1 year