Testimonials / 學生的聲音

Hi, my name is Quentin and I am from New Caledonia. I have been in Japan for almost 2 years now, and I will be graduating from Nihongo Center in September. This school really helped me improve my Japanese and the teachers are great. When I started, I just knew “kanas” and a few “Kanji” but I took the N2 test last week and hopefully I will pass. What is great about Nihongo Center are definitely the students from around the world that you can meet and enjoy the Kyoto life with!

Quentin, French
Hello, my name is Dinesh. Because I love Japan, I entered Nihongo Center in October 2017. When I arrived at Nihongo Center, I was the only Sri Lanka new student and, because I couldn’t speak English very well, I was worried about making new friends and simply living in Japan. But I decided to change my seat in class every week, and now I am very happy because I have friend from all over the world. I also really like the teaching method of all the teachers. They are teaching with passion. We are not only doing test regularly, but we are also practicing conversation a lot, and we really feel it in our progress. l. It’s been 8 months I am studying Japanese and I am very happy we started the N3 level.

Dinesh, Sri Lanka

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Online Course

Nihongo Center is starting an online course for beginners from October 2020.

Right now we would like to know if what we are thinking of is appealing and we would like to have your comment about it.

It will be greatly appreciated if you could take the little survey below. Be sure to ready every part since the detail of the whole program is also written just after the survey.

For any question, you can contact us on the inquiry page or directly at support@nihongo-center.com

Thank you very much!

Nihongo Center
Admission office

Online Course Survey

Would you be interested in taking Online lessons?*
- Yes
- No
Would you be interested in the following content?
An online course for 10 weeks*
Class held from Monday to Friday*
Class during 3.5 hours a day from 13.15 pm to 16.45 pm (Japanese time)
Class designed for complete beginners to reach the N5 of the JLPT*
Comment (Please write anything you want about the Online course even about your preferences)*
Email address*

Please write your contact address so we can answer all your questions and contact you for further details.

GDM (Great Direct Method)

GDM is an original teaching method created by Nihongo Center. It is focused on survival Japanese for the 5 first weeks.

GDM content can be found below:

Topic particle "wa" and "mo"
"Kore", "Sore", "Are"
Question words "Nan", "Dare", "Dore", "Doko"
Possessive particle "no"
"Kono", "Sono", "Ano" and question word "Dono"
Location particle "ni"
Subject particle "ga"
Verbal conjugation: Present, Past, Affirmative, Negative forms
Expression of the spatial position
Enumeration particle "to" and "ya"
Direct object particle "o"
Direction of motion particle "e"
Action particle "de"
Time particle "ni"
"Give and Receive", "Ageru" and "Morau"
"A-i" and "A-na" adjectives
Like and Dislike: "suki", "kirai"
Asking for a service "V-te kudasai"
Suggestion form "V-mashô"
Successive action "V-te, V-masu"
Expression of continuity "V-te imasu"
"Go and do something" form: "V-ni ikimasu"
Changing a verb to a noun or action "Vdict + koto"
Expression of past experience "V-ta + koto"
Expression of desire "V-tai", "hoshii"
Expression of self opinion "to omou"

DLP (Dialogue practice)

DLP is directly done after the GDM lesson. It is mainly a roleplay class where students have to reuse what they learned during the GDM lesson for a better understanding and practice.