We did not start a language school.
We started with what was in the way.
SajiloBhasa is an online language learning platform for learners in Nepal, made by Yamison. Japanese comes first: live, structured courses with real conversation practice and direct instructor feedback, with more languages to follow. The classes are the method, not the purpose.
Live classes
Taught in real time over Zoom or Google Meet, not pre-recorded video.
Small cohorts
You learn alongside a group that started the same course on the same date.
WhatsApp study group
Direct access to your instructor and classmates between lessons.
JLPT-aligned syllabus
Structured around the N5–N1 framework, level by level.
Why this platform exists
Learning a language in Nepal has, for a long time, meant being in a particular building at a particular hour. The institutes are good at what they do, but almost all of them teach offline, and almost all of them are in Kathmandu or another large city. That one fact quietly decides who gets to learn. A student in a village is not priced out by the course fee. They are priced out by the room rent, the bus, the months away from family and work that sitting in that room would cost.
For the people already in the valley or in a town, the obstacle is not distance but the clock. Offline batches run at whatever hour the classroom is free, and a person with a job, a shift, a college timetable or a family to run is expected to bend their whole day around it. Plenty of them simply give up on the language, not because it was too hard, but because the timetable was.
So we built the class to move instead of the student. Every course here is a real, live class: an instructor, a small group, a fixed syllabus and a scheduled hour, taught over Zoom or Google Meet. Not a video library you watch alone and abandon in week three. A student in a village joins the same class, with the same teacher, as a student in Kathmandu, and both of them are seen, corrected and answered in real time.
Because the class is online, it can run more than once a day. We schedule morning, daytime and evening shifts, which means the language fits into the life you already have rather than replacing it. You can work, study your regular course, and still be in class at an hour you chose. That is the whole design, and everything else on this site follows from it.
What we are actually solving
Four things stand between a person in Nepal and a language they need. None of them is the alphabet. We built the platform around these four, and we would rather be judged on them than on a brochure.
The class is in Kathmandu, and you are not.
Almost every language institute in the country teaches in a room, and almost every one of those rooms is in Kathmandu or one of the larger cities. If you live in a village, the fee was never the expensive part. Moving was. Our classes are live and online, so the room comes to you over a connection you already have.
The timetable belongs to the institute, not to you.
Offline classes run when the building is free, which is often an hour that only works if your day has nothing else in it. Ours run in morning, daytime and evening shifts, so you can hold a job, sit your college classes, or run a household, and still be in class with an instructor at an hour that suits you.
You are asked to pay for months before you have met the teacher.
You sit in on a live class first, free, and see how the instructor teaches and how the group works before any money changes hands. If it is not the right class for you, you have lost nothing but an hour.
You are sold a dream instead of a route.
Where a language leads - a student visa, a skilled worker route, a university place - is decided by exams and by immigration rules, not by the school you paid. So we state the route plainly, name the exam and the level each path actually requires, and leave the promising to people who are willing to be wrong.
A platform, not a single course
SajiloBhasa is built to carry more than one language. Japanese is where we started and where our teaching is deepest, running the full JLPT ladder from N5 to N1, and other languages are being prepared behind it. That matters for a practical reason rather than a marketing one: plans change. A learner who starts out aiming at Japan and later finds their route runs somewhere else should not have to write off what they paid and start again with a different institute.
So changing your mind is something we handle rather than penalise. Moving to a different cohort, a different level, or a different language is a conversation with us, settled under the terms in our refund and transfer policy rather than by whoever is on the phone that day. We would rather keep a learner who switched than hold one who stopped showing up.
You can see everything currently running, and everything being prepared, on the languages page. A language that is not open yet is labelled that way. We do not advertise a cohort that does not exist.
The route, stated plainly
For a lot of our students the language is not the goal. Japan is. A student visa, a skilled worker route, a university place, a job that finally pays what their work is worth. That is a serious thing to be carrying, and it is the part of this industry where people get hurt.
Here is our position, and it does not change. We are a language platform. We teach the language and prepare you for the exam that the route requires. We do not issue visas, we are not agents, and nobody here can promise you an outcome that an embassy decides. Anyone who promises you that is selling you something they cannot deliver.
What we can do is make the route legible. Which exam each path actually asks for, which level counts as evidence, when the paper is sat in Nepal and how far ahead you have to register, and what has to be true before an application is worth making at all. We set that out in full on the Japanese classes in Nepal page and in our guide to choosing a class, with the authorities named so you can check us rather than trust us.
A clear route with no guarantee is worth more than a guarantee with no route. Once you can see the whole path, the decision is yours to make, and you can make it with your eyes open.
Sit in before you pay
A course is months of your life and a real amount of money, and most people are asked to commit to both on the strength of a poster. We would rather you came and saw. Every learner can join a live class free before enrolling, for long enough to get a proper feel for it: how the instructor explains a point, what happens when you get something wrong, how much you are actually asked to speak, whether the pace is right for you.
Bring your level and your reason, and we will point you at the class that fits rather than the one that costs most. If you are not sure of your level, that is normal and we will work it out with you in the trial.
Building a modern foundation for Japanese fluency
SajiloBhasa was founded to bridge the gap between self-study tools and true conversational confidence. What started as small, live group tutoring sessions for students preparing for the JLPT has grown into an online language learning platform, starting with Japanese.
Unlike passive video platforms, we built our programs around active, live instruction. We pair structured exam preparation with direct speaking feedback, helping learners smoothly navigate academic admissions, corporate careers, and relocation to Japan.
We are not trying to become one more language institute with a longer list of branches. The classes we run are good, and we intend to keep making them better, but a good class was never the hard part of this problem. Reaching the person who cannot come to the room, at an hour they can actually attend, at a price that does not require them to move house, with an honest account of where it leads: that is the hard part, and that is the work.
We would rather be measured as a problem solver than as a school. If something about learning a language in Nepal is still in your way, and we have not solved it yet, we would genuinely like to hear about it - tell us. A person reads every message.