Japanese (Stage 1)

Japanese course is offered by Palmerston North Intermediate Normal School. 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.

Japanese is the language that will take you to more places in life, your studies, and your career. Likewise, it will enrich your personal life as much as your travel. Experiences through immersion learning, so you will get maximum exposure to your target language.

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...

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.

Learning Japanese gives ?konga the chance to communicate in a different language, and to gain an appreciation of a fascinating culture. ?konga develops their speaking and listening skills, as well as reading and using the unique kanji writing system, which can be a rewarding and enjoyable.