RFI: Japanese language evening classes in London

I also know someone who's doing a crash course as he is going to be working in Tokyo for the foreign office. I imagine that this is being done privately, but will find out info about books etc if you like.

i'm pretty certain all our (ie the c!ty l!t, where i work) beginners japanese (and frankly every other language) are full up, I can check in the morning. you can look up courses on hot courses or try calling learn direct on 0800 100900. i think i've been working in FE for too long...

How much could I get teaching Japanese privately if I lived in London? (Trained teacher/certificates/interested in something different)

I don't think there's that much of a market in teaching it, sadly.

my favourite course book was the yale japanese language course book. even studying it on my own was easy.

the best thing EVAH is having a private teacher. yes, it's expensive but you'll progress much faster. what we (my mum and i) did (in the beginning): paying a belgian student who was still studying japanese. it was great for him cause he could revise and earn money. :-)

i miss my professor japanese. one of the best i ever had but he died of cancer. :-((((((((((((((

(marcello, if you're reading this, i'm going to send you that robyn cd and reply to your email! my parents just came back from japan for a couple of days so i was away from the computah!)

It is easy to learn beginners Japanese, because they dumb it down for you. But once you try to get into the real deal, you realize that you've been misinformed. Other languages, you get some minimum level ofcompetence and you have a fighting chance to keep improving.

I never really had to learn the dumbed down version of Japanese though. Thank god. I immediately started learning with that student and later on took a course at university. No "watashi wa anata o aimasu."

No no! You're wrong! Belgians are boring! The language is okay. ;-)

I don't know if you could make a living as a private Japanese teacher but if you had a teaching qualification you might get hourly-paid work teaching evening classes. In any big city you'd find a BIT of demand for private tuition I reckon.

Yes, that was hard. I didn't have much problems until I had to study the different levels of politeness. ECK! I think I had an easier time because I had read about culture and how Japanese people think. (Even a book on how they raise children.)

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of course i might have just sucked at it, but my japanese profs said i was above average. by way of comparsion, my mother in the same amount of time became so fluent in dutch the locals didn't believe her when she said she wasn't a native.

Nope. I think we started after about three or four months. As my visual memory is ab-so-lu-te-ly crap, I had a very hard time writing the kanjis. Recognizing the kanjis is of course easier.