Online Japanese course 1 (1), fall 2025

Dates and times: Sep. 29th, 2025 - Jan 14th, 2026 Wednesdays 18:00–19:00 (Finland time). No classes on weeks 42 (Oct. 13th-19th), 52 (Dec. 22nd-28th) and 1 (Dec. 29th, 2025-Jan 4th, 2026) due to holidays. 

Lecturer: Japanese Government Certified Japanese language instructor and former professor of US universities Konishi Sensei, a Japanese native, living in Japan, has many years of experiences both in traditional teaching in very competitive and well known US universities and also in online teaching as university programs from Japan.

Required equipment: A computer with a camera, headset with a microphone and internet connection. This course will be provided using an online conference program Zoom, but students will not be required to create an own account.  Instructions will be sent some days before the course starts.

Content and objectives: An intensive online Japanese language course taught in Japanese and English live from Japan. The course includes a lot of photos, videos and articles of real time materials about Japan and its culture.

The goal of study: After finishing this intensive course, students will be able to obtain very basic language skills such as Self Introduction, Greetings and Shopping etc,. Students will be able to recognize 46 Hiragana letters, 46 Katakana letters and some Kanji.

Prerequisite: None

Textbook: An Integrated course In Elementary Japanese “Genki I” (Chapter 1~) published by the Japan Times, 3rd edition, ISBN978-4-7890-1730-5 (via online bookstores e.g. Amazon). Electronic version of textbooks are available but please do not buy paperback.

Duration and fee: 17h, 80€

Student feedback from previous courses:

”I really liked the course and Konishi Sensei's teaching! My main goal is to speak Japanese more freely, and this is a very good way to practice!"

"The continuous feedback from the teacher was really good, the expectations were reasonable. The study material was good. The course was very enjoyable."

”I have been very satisfied with the courses. Konishi Sensei has taken great care of us students and the cultural bits are a good addition and make learning enjoyable. The courses do run at a fast pace, so students need to be ready to put in effort. However, Konishi Sensei has been very accommodating even with my sometimes foolish questions.

As an end result, my travels in Japan have been far more enjoyable as I am able to chat with locals and have some insight on customs and interesting things to see.“