Japanese Classes at our Language Door location in Los Angeles. Serving students in West Los Angeles, Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Malibu, Redondo Beach, Culver City and Manhattan Beach California.
Learn a language today, open the door to tomorrow!
Language Door Los Angeles offers small interactive Japanese classes! Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning Japanese fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
Please check the schedules:
For the beginning
classses, we use "Japanese For Busy People I ", for the intermediate
classes, "Japanese For Busy People II " by AJALT
(Association for Japanese-Language Teaching ) For
the advanced classes, we provide handouts at no charge.
Beginning A (
Book I, Lesson 1 - 6 )
Topics -- Introductions, Exchanging business cards, Asking about business
hours, and Shopping
Grammar and usage -- the affirmative, the negative and the
interrogative of copula, particles ( wa, o, e ), question words ( what, whose, how much, what time, when,
with whom ), ko-so-a-do words, time, counters (mai, hon, hitotsu), etc.
Beginning B (
Book I, Lesson 7 - 12 )
Topics -- Visiting another company, Going to Nikko,
Looking for a parking lot, Making plans for the weekend, At a
tempura restaurant, and Receiving hospitality.
Grammar and usage -- time expressions (day, week, month),
particles ( ga, ni, de ), being (arimasu, imasu),
location nouns, counters (hitori), question words (where, how, who, how
many), kinship terms, adverbs of frequency, i-adjectives and na-adjectives
(present affirmative and negative forms ), motion verbs (
present, past affirmative and negative forms ), etc.
Beginning C (
Book I, Lesson 13 - 18 )
Topics -- Giving compliments, Expressing gratitude, Invitations,
Participating in a festival, Talking about plans, and Making a
request.
Grammar and usage -- giving and receiving, i-adjectives and na-adjectives
( past affirmative and negative forms ), telephone call,
invitations and suggestions ( -mashoo,
-mashoo ka, -masen ka ), Te-form of verbs, requests ( -te
kudasai
), etc.
Beginning D (
Book I, Lesson 19 - 25 )
Topics -- Going to an art museum, At an art museum, Being warned
or advised, Busy at the moment, Responding to an inquiry, Being
introduced to someone, and at a party.
Grammar and
usage --Nai-form,
periods ( minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years ) question
word ( how long ), ask permission (-temo iidesuka),
refuse permission (naide kudasai), present progressive, habitual actions and current states ( -"te
imasu), preference (-ga sukidesu),
desire (-tai desu), etc.
Intermediate A
(Book II, Lesson 1 - 5 )
Topics -- Rush hour, Lost and found, The health club, A business
trip, A new word processor
Grammar and usage -- comparisons, Te-form of adjectives as a
connective, ku/ni -form
of adjectives as adverbial use, dictionary form of verbs (
before, can + dictionary form ), Ta-form ( experience - ta
kotoga arimasu ), plain form of verbs, become + adjectives,
nouns ( -ku/ni narimasu ), after + ing ( -te kara ), connective
particle (-shi ) , etc.
Intermediate B
( Book II, Lesson 6 - 10 )
Topics -- A pale face, Mr.Johnson's arrival, The Obon
festival, Prep school, Letter from Kyushu
Grammar and usage -- had better (-hooga iidesu), modifying nouns, I think that -( -to omoimasu
), obiligations, orders, prohibitions, and permission (nakereba narimasen), etc.
Intermediate C
( Book II, Lesson 11 - 15 )
Topics -- Job interview, Hotel reservations, A gift of
chocolate, The referee' s rule, A forgotten umbrella.
Grammar and usage -- n desu-form (explanatory or confirmatory function), when, if, in the
case (toki and baai), expressing uncertainty (daroo to omoimasu), expressing reason (node), Te-form indicating reason or condition, no in noun clauses,Tara-form, Nara-form, etc.
Intermediate D (
Book II, Lesson 16 - 20 )
Topics -- The new showroom design, Brown's diary, Birthday
flowers, The public library, Cherry blossoms
Grammar and usage -- Ba-form, when and if (-to), plain style, volitional form, polite
expressions, show intent or purpose (tsumori), potential form of verbs.
Advanced Classes
If you would like to discuss material covered in these levels, contact us at our Los Angeles School.
Feedback from Our Students
"I like this course, we have fun. It's not boring like when I learned
Spanish. I like that we have lecture notes to take home. That is such a
good/helpful/useful thing!" Keri.
"I have taken multiple languages at various universities and none have matched the pace that Language Door San Diego has set for its students. I've learned things in the basic (Japanese) class here that I never learned in 4 years of learning Japanese (at other schools). – Alex, San Diego School
"Kazue is a good teacher. Approachable and helpful in and out of
class. The course moves quickly, but she does a good job moving us along
and keeping us up to speed," Lynn.
"The teacher is very nice and helpful. Answers questions with a good
explanation," Emily.
"The class is taught by a great teacher who is enthusiastic and fun,"
Abu.
"The Course is good. Because of its small class size, we can cover a
lot of material quickly," Lynn.
"Very good - interesting to practice vocabulary and hiragana..."
Frederic.
"Good, fun, engaging," Kurt.
"She [the teacher] is very helpful and explains everything well, and
answers all of our questions. She is also very nice," Keri.
Language Description
There are approximately 125 million Japanese speakers, and most of them
reside in Japan. A good number of Japanese speakers can also be
found in Ryukyu Island (Okinawa), Korea, Taiwan, Parts of the United
States, and Brazil. Although some linguists suggest that
Japanese has some connection with Korean, Chinese and Altaic languages,
the origin of this language still remains uncertain.
Further Information
For further information about Los Angeles Japanese classes, San Fernando
Valley Japanese classes, San Diego Japanese classes or Orange County Japanese classes, please follow
the links on the navigation bar on the right. Thank you!
Learning a Language can be Fun
We currently offer the opportunity to learn Spanish, French, Chinese, English, Japanese, Arabic, Farsi, Korean and many more languages in our weekly language class program at our West Los Angeles Language Door School or the San Fernando Valley Language Door School in Encino. Our comfortable, casual environment helps to make learning the language of your choice fun and convenient. We schedule our classes at times that work for busy adults. Enrich your life as you learn one language or learn many.
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