Japanese - Introductory 1

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

Although nearly all Japanese now learn English at school, many are reluctant to speak it to foreigners, so if you go to Japan, you cannot rely on finding someone to explain things for you in English! Knowing enough Japanese to get around is a great benefit.

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.

We offer GROW programmes, immersion opportunities, as well as the Japanese National Language Adviser who can work with your school to help strengthen the teaching of Japanese. We also have close relationships with the New Zealand Association of Japanese Language.

Japanese course is offered by UCOL. Our courses are taught by highly qualified and experienced teacher who are extremely dedicated to ensuring you leave with all the necessary skills to broaden your horizons and never be lost for words again.