Notes on learning
Japanese.
Short, practical articles on studying Japanese online and preparing for the JLPT, written for learners in Nepal by the SajiloBhasa instructors. Japanese is the language we teach today, and these notes will follow as more languages open.
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Learning Japanese · · 5 min read
Japanese to English translation online: what it is fine for, and what it will cost you
An online translator handles a menu. It does not handle an interview, a contract, or the politeness level you just got wrong.
Learning Japanese · · 5 min read
Japanese learning games online: what they fix and what they hide
Games are excellent at the part of Japanese that is memorisation. The trouble is they feel like progress in the part that is not.
Learning Japanese · · 6 min read
Searching "Japanese classes near me" in Nepal? Read this first
Proximity is the wrong filter. What decides whether you pass is the instructor, the group size and the timetable, and none of those depend on distance.
Learning Japanese · · 7 min read
The best online Japanese course is the one you finish: a 10-point checklist
Every course looks good on its own page. Ten questions, asked before you pay, will tell you which ones are actually built to get you through an exam.
Learning Japanese · · 3 min read
Learn hiragana and katakana before anything else
Why the two Japanese alphabets come first, and a simple way to have both within a few weeks.
How we teach · · 3 min read
Why we teach in small live classes
A small group, one instructor, the same time every week. What that changes compared with learning from videos alone.