Japanese

The study of Japanese at Waikato involves the acquisition of the Japanese language and the study of the history and culture of Japan. Japan's 2000-year-old civilization boasts such achievements as the world's first novel and other rich contributions to the fine arts.

With 128 million native speakers around the globe, it’s no surprise that Japanese is a useful language to know for business, travel, and pleasure. Japan is a trendsetter when it comes to pop culture and its influences can be found through the spread of Japanese music, and films around the world

Bay Learning Academy offered Japanese langauage course for all skill levels. Bay Learning offers a range of language classes from beginner to advanced, for both adults and young learners.

Learn the basics of the Japanese language so that you can communicate in a range of common situations. Use and understand greetings and phrases of introduction and develop the skills to give basic information about yourself and understand basic information given to you.

Our Introductory Japanese 101 course begins with a focus on learning hiragana and katakana scripts, writing and reading practice, and includes basic introductory grammar, vocabulary and conversation.Basic everyday vocabulary and expressions will be taught, always with a view to empowering learn...