Learn Japanese in Berlin
The quality of an Japanese course is dependent on the competency and skill of the teacher. That is why only native speaking Japanese teachers with year long experience in teaching adults are employed by Prolog.
The smaller the group, the more effective the class. For this reason, Japanese courses at Prolog have between three and six participants. And for those who think that even this is too many people we offer Japanese for pairs and individuals.
Our Japanese classes are designed to practice and improve the four basic skills: listening, writing, reading and speaking. Group discussions, role-playing exercises and conversation in the class all lead to an improvement of self-expression, vocabulary building and mastery of grammar in Japanese.
At the bottom of this page you will find information concerning the starting dates of upcoming Japanese courses. Whether you're looking for STANDARD or STANDARD LIGHT courses, you will find many offers for evening courses in small groups. You decide on the course dates and the level - just send us your booking and you're on your way!
Learn Japanese year round at Prolog
Our evening courses can be booked in blocks of 12, 24 or 48 weeks. You are sure to make quick progress as our Japanese courses are quite small with a maximum of only 3 to 6 students.
For our corporate clients we offer specially designed Business Japanese Classes which take the specific needs of your company, sector and work into consideration. Just tell us when, where and how you would like your Japanese course.
At the end of your Japanese course you will receive a certificate from ESL PROLOG Berlin which is widely recognized and attests to your Japanese language ability.
There are many good reasons to discover the various and fascinating languages and cultures of Japanese speaking countries. We have a wide array of different courses to match your interests and abilities. No matter what your goals are, we will work individually with you to find the right course for you.
Interesting facts about Japanese
With around 130 million speakers Japanese currently takes ninth place in the ranking of the world's most widely spoken languages. Apart from being spoken in Japan itself there are about 200,000 speakers in the continental United States, 220,000 in Hawaii and around 380,000 speakers in South America (primarily in Brazil).
Three large immigration waves spanning from the end of the nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century are responsible for this strong constituency of Japanese speakers throughout the Americas. It is also estimated that 4.9 percent of all websites on the World Wide Web are in Japanese - fourth place after English, German and French.
Both the origin and classification of Japanese are intensely disputed among researchers even to this day. The only thing that has been “proven“ is that Japanese and Ryūkyūan (the language spoken on the Ryūkyū Islands) are closely related and together form the Japonic language family. Many researchers, however, consider Ryūkyūan to be simply a dialect of Japanese.
The first reason for this state of affairs is that the oldest remaining text in Japanese, the Kojiki, dates from the eighth century AD. Any statements made about the Japanese language prior to this text are therefore based entirely on unreliable linguistic reconstructions or deductions from archaeological or genetic studies.
The second problem confronting researchers also has roots in the unclear origins of the language. Japanese shares many typological and syntactical similarities with Korean and other Manchu-Tungusic languages. However, the phonetics and pure Japanese vocabulary (in comparison to words and pronunciation borrowed from Chinese) show little, and according to some researchers no, resemblance to these Altaic languages.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
Current Japanese Courses
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