Conversational Japanese for Beginners

Course details

• You will be able to introduce yourself and hold a formal conversation
• You will be able to speak naturally with Japanese friends
• Learn how to Count from 0 - 1000, plus telling the time in Japanese
• Develop natural and fluent Japanese speech… 

This course brings you the opportunity to learn polite, beginner level conversational Japanese with a strong emphasis on correct and natural sounding speech, but also will enable you to communicate with your friends in a casual manner. This course is perfect for beginner level Japanese speakers wanting to learn the essentials of conversational Japanese, but also more casual phrases to use with friends.

Richard Heiney takes great care in addressing the most subtle of differences between various words and particles, which is a hugely important aspect of the Japanese language, but is being ignored by most modern courses and textbooks. This course takes the form of text showing videos so that you can hear and see the words that are being taught enabling you to remember everything better.

Take this course and learn how to communicate with all types of people in Japanese, whether you want a very formal understanding of the language or a more casual version that you can use with friends. You will have a natural sounding accent, that will be clear and understood by whoever you are talking to.

• Intro
• Say hi to your fellow students!
• Share your new course with your friends!
• Welcome
• How to get the maximum out of this course
• ANKI Tutorial - How to use the flashcards

• Access to Essential Japanese ANKI Flashcards
• 1. Are you Japanese?
• 2. I can speak Japanese a little
• 3. Your Japanese is good, isn't it
• 4. Hi, my name is Bob Bobson. Nice to meet you!
• 5. Where are you from?

• 6. I will go shopping.
• 7. I want to buy souvenirs
• 8. Numbers 1 - 10
• 9. How much is this?
• 10. I want to buy a Japanese toy for a friend

• 11. Won't we eat lunch together?
• 12. I know a good restaurant
• 13. Numbers 11 - 99
• 14. I'll have tea
• 15. I want to drink beer together with a Japanese friend

• 16. Please go straight ahead
• 17. It's that way
• 18. Numbers 100 - 999
• 19. The bar is over there
• 20. Please turn right. The pharmacy will be on your left side

• 21. When did you come to Japan?
• 22. What time is it now?
• 23. I'll meet Mr. Tanaka at 7 o'clock
• 24. As for tonight, that store is closed
• 25. Why? Because...

• Casual Japanese Introduction

• Access to Casual Japanese ANKI Flashcards
• 1. Hey! How are you?
• 2. What are we going to do?
• 3. What are your hobbies?
• 4. Let's go to the party together
• 5. Where are you from?

• 6. What are you doing today?
• 7. Sorry, I'm a bit busy...
• 8. I have time before the part-time job
• 9. After work I have free time for sure
• 10. Let's meet at Shinjuku station

• 11. What's this called?
• 12. I want to eat meat
• 13. Numbers 1-10
• 14. What would be good I wonder?
• 15. How was the drinking party yesterday?

• 16. We're going on a date tomorrow
• 17. Do you have a boyfriend/girlfriend?
• 18. Numbers 11-99
• 19. How old are you?
• 20. We're dating

• 21. I'm feeling down
• 22. Come on, cheer up!
• 23. Days of the week
• 24. Awww I'm so jealous!
• 25. Aaah, feels good!

• Part 1
• Part 2
• Part 3
• Part 4
• Part 5
• Part 6
• Part 7
• Part 8
• Part 9
• Part 10