Do you love sushi and ramen? Are you always looking forward to that next upcoming anime episode or J-pop song release? Do you at times (to quote the RHCP) "dream of samurai"? 

 

According to the Foreign Service Institute (FSI), Japanese ranks as a Category V language among world languages in the highest level of difficulty (based on average time of acquisition) alongside Chinese, Korean, and Arabic. Learners of these languages often require approximately 2200 hours (or 88 weeks) of use and study to reach conversational fluency. (Source: https://2009-2017.state.gov/m/fsi/sls/orgoverview/languages/index.htm) 

 

And yet, I truly believe that you too can speak and understand Japanese. The question is, how? 

 

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Immersion Japanese Club (IJC) Courses

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 + Level 1: An Introductory Overview (0 to 10 hours)

 + Level 2: Basic Level (about 10 to 100 hours)

 + Level 3: Intermediate Level (about 100 to 600 hours)

 + Level 4: Advanced Level (about 600 to 1200 hours)

 + Level 5: Professional Level (about 1200+ hours) Pending

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Someone once told me that learning a language is like riding a bike. No number or quality of textbooks on the physics of bicycling will help you learn how to ride: you just have to get on, fall off, and get on again until one day you don't fall anymore. Mistakes are not only expected, they're essential to learning. And the sense of achievement when you finally start "getting it" far outweighs any test score or class grade you could ever receive. Welcome to the world of language learning!

 

These courses are for immersion-based learning, meaning here that there is *no* spoken English used in the lesson (outside of defining new vocabulary).

 

Immersion is *not* for the weak-hearted. If you're into the idea of learning Japanese fast and naturally, and are willing to do without the comfortable, non-challenging settings of more traditional types of language education, then you're in the right place. 

 

“Language is best taught when it is being used to transmit messages, not when it is explicitly taught for conscious learning.”

― Stephen D. Krashen, professor emeritus in linguistics at the University of Southern California and founder of the Natural Approach methodology