Japanese Classroom

Japanese Classroom

• I want to study Japanese.

  The Funabashi City International Association offers classes where you can learn Japanese. There are a variety of courses available, both face-to-face and online, so please read the application website carefully and choose the course that best suits you. All classes are subject to a fee.
  https://fira-system.info
  
  ★Japanese language classes (high school students and above)
  We divide the basics of Japanese into eight levels and teach you how to converse in everyday situations. We offer two courses: face-to-face and online.
  ●Face-to-face course: Study at community centers or association salons.
  ●Online course: Study via Zoom.
  
  ★Short-term Japanese language crash course (adults)
  Over a three-month period, twice a week, you will study 18 conversational situations related to everyday life, as well as 50 hiragana, katakana, and kanji characters.
  We will use the FIRA original textbook, "Three months of beginner's Japanese for living in Funabashi."
  
  
• Please tell me the site where you can study Japanese at home.

  Here are some free websites where you can enjoy studying conversation, grammar, hiragana, katakana, kanji, and other Japanese language skills on your own.
  Please use them to help you with your Japanese language studies. *Users will be responsible for communication charges.
  
  ★Connect and Enhance Your Life in Japanese (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japanese Language Education Division)
  https://tsunagarujp.bunka.go.jp/howto
  
  ★Marugoto+ (The Japan Foundation)
  https://marugotoweb.jp/ja/
  
  ★Marugoto e-Learning (The Japan Foundation)
  https://www.marugoto.org/e-learning/
  
  ★Irodori: Japanese for Everyday Life (The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Urawa)
  https://www.irodori.jpf.go.jp/starter/pdf.html
  
  ★NIHONGO e na(The Japan Foundation Japanese-Language Institute, Kansai)
  https://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/
  
  ★NHK Easy Japanese (NHK)
  https://www.nhk.or.jp/lesson/en/
  
  ★Preschool children
  Tanoshiku Manabi-tai (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
  https://tanoshikumanabitai.mext.go.jp/
  
  ★Online lessons
  Chiba Prefecture International Center website
  https://www.mcic.or.jp/support_for_foreigners/japanese_class/japanese_onlineclass/
  
  
  
  
• I am looking for a place where children who have just arrived in Japan can study Japanese.

  There are two classrooms for elementary school students and junior high school students.
  
  ★ Funabashi Municipal School Japanese Classroom "World Room" (Funabashi City Board of Education Guidance Division)
  In the classroom, Children will study basic Japanese for beginners and will learn Japanese language necessary for studying their subjects in Japanese together with their instructors and school teachers.
  *Since the 2020 academic year, due to the impact of COVID-19, classes have been conducted online.
  Location: Participate from your school using a tablet computer.
  Time: Elementary school students in grades 4-6 = every Wednesday from 14:00 to 14:45, junior high school students = every Friday from 13:30 to 14:20
  Age: 4th to 6th grade elementary school students and junior high school students attending Funabashi Municipal Schools and need to learn Japanese language
  Cost: Free
  Application:contact your elementary/junior high school, fill out and submit the World Room online class application form
  For more information, please contact your school.
  
  ★ Chikyuu-ko, Children’s Japanese Class (Funabashi International Relations Association)
  After arriving in Japan, students will study school textbooks until they can able to read them with furigana. There is a fee for the classes.
  ●Face-to-face course:Classes to be held in i-Office Tsudanuma (6th floor, Showa 3rd Building, 1-3-11 Tsudanuma, Narashino City).
  ●Online course: Study with Zoom.
  Time: Every Saturday 9:45-11:45
  Age: 1st grade to 3rd grade
  Please apply from https://fira-system.info/ .
  
  *Children of elementary school age must be drop-off and pick-up by a parent or guardian.
  
  Also, We will introduce the sites where you can study Japanese online.
  ★Tanoshiku Manabitai (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology)
  https://tanoshikumanabitai.mext.go.jp/