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Summer in Japan is hot, loud, sticky, sweet, and full of chances to practice your Japanese outside the classroom. Between conbini snack runs, fireworks festivals, and shaved ice shops with menus longer than a train timetable, this season provides you with real conversations, real listening challenges, and real vocabulary that you’ll encounter in real life. Here are eight summer activities that double as language practice, plus the vocabulary and phrases to get you started. 1....
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Learn Japanese
Summer in Japan is hot, loud, sticky, sweet, and full of chances to practice your Japanese outside the classroom. Between conbini snack runs, fireworks festivals, and shaved ice shops with menus longer than a train...
Learn Japanese
While you’re preparing for your Japanese language school application or waiting for your student visa, you can continue to make progress in your Japanese studies before arriving in Japan. Anime, manga, video games, movies, TV,...
How to
Studying abroad is a big life event and you might feel a lot of pressure to choose the right Japanese language school. This decision involves many personal factors and what is right for someone else...
Japanese Culture
The Tanabata festival is one of the most joyous and colorful summer festivals in Japan and there are plenty of them that happen all over the country. The word Tanabata (七夕) means the seventh evening...
Life in Japan
Language schools in Japan, and especially in Tokyo, bring a diverse crowd of students together from around the world, all with the shared goal of learning Japanese. At Japanese language schools, classes are taught in...
How to
Student visa applicants are generally expected to have a basic level of Japanese ability. In the past, evidence of around 150 hours of study could be used as proof. As of the October 2026 intake,...
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