Japanese Language Courses

Modern Japanese is written in a mixture of three main systems: kanji, hiragana and katakana.All Japanese vowels are pure – that is, there are no diphthongs, only monophthongs. Japanese word order is classified as Subject – Object – Verb.Pronouns are correlated with gender of the spea...

The East Melbourne Language Centre has been successfully conducting tailor-made business classes for companies in Melbourne over a period of 30 years. Special technically and commercially oriented courses concentrate on teaching business people to communicate effectively and confidently with nati...

This major in Japanese, which is open to beginners and those with some knowledge of the language, consists of three years of interactive Japanese language study on the Perth campus, with a choice of including (upon successful application) one or more semesters at a Japanese partner institution.

Japanese is spoken by more than 120 million people. The written language uses three kinds of scripts – Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. The third of these has much in common with Chinese character script. Japan has a rich cultural tradition. It has the third-largest economy in the world.

The aim of the course is to help you to use Japanese effectively, in general, everyday situations such as shopping or at the train station