What are the best resources to learn Japanese?

Learning a new sport, music instrument is never easy. You need to find ways to learn and get familiarise with its pattern and basics. Likewise learning a new language is never easy, you need to fall in love with it. Yes, it will take time to get familiar with the language but you can think of it as a good investment. Lots of us are curious to learn new things, but only a few of us get up and manage to convert it to reality. Nowadays, there are plenty of resources available online to make your learning fun and meaningful and all this at just a click away!

With technological advancements and achievements, we can now search for all our inquires on the internet. We can even get help for the difficult scripts of Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Russian etc online or offline. Learners struggle to find genuine resources that can give their learning the right direction. We can now find great resources for learning Japanese online and offline. I would suggest you to get yourself familiarised with their culture, tradition, way of living, etc before jumping directly to writing a script, as everything is closely woven in a strong ethnic thread. Youtube could help you acclimatise yourself and you can also can anime or watch movies of your favourite genre. Once you connect with the culture it would be a bridge built!

Online sources

We are have opened up to the idea of learning virtually, online ditching the traditional method of face to face classroom learning, due to the pandemic. We have also realised the benefits of online education – saves time, money and can be done from your own comfort zone. Numerous pieces of information are available on the internet for you to take advantage of. I list here today, some of the many online apps and institutes that offer Japanese classes and courses for learning.

1. Multibhashi

Bangalore based ed-tech company, Multibhashi is one of the finest language learning platforms that brings you authentic ways of learning Japanese. You can learn from the farthest corner of the country. You can either take one on one class with the instructor or you can take group classes, the choice is yours. The timing of the class can be set up according to your preference. Starting from the learning material to the study certificate after the class will be provided by Multibhashi. The learning is exclusively online. More details can be known from the company website.

2.Udemy

You can learn the Japanese language from here. The site offers you tons of courses according to your level, fees and users review. You can choose from the beginners level to the advance levels.

3.Wasabi

Here, there are two main ways to learn Japanese; one on one class with a Japanese linguist by borrowing the free study material from Wasabi. The main focus for one on one class is on speaking, listening and grammar. This option is for the beginner who needs more knowledge and guidelines for the language. The second available option is for the experienced learner or the advance learner. The materials include grammar practics sheets, audio or video recording for seminars, as well as the transcripts, which are also provided.

Offline resources

1. Universities offered classes.

Many universities in the country offer languages courses in both part-time and full-time courses. The duration of the comprises mostly of 3 yrs (full time) and 3yrs(1+1+1)yrs for part-time. Some of the notable university that offers this language programme are: Delhi University, Department of East Asian Studies, and its affiliate colleges, JNU’s School of Language and Literature, Manipur University etc.

2. Japan Foundation

It is founded by the Japanese government in 1972 to promote Japanese culture in other countries. Here, you can get excess to the books, manga, magazine and newspaper from there library by registering with your email onsite. They also conduct seminars, Japanese movies etc. They also provide the class for every level but the limited seat. In India, it is located in New Delhi. More information is available on their website.

3. Private institutes

There are many private institutes in every nook and corner of the country. But before joining them you need to find out the services provided by them, eg; who is teaching? Genuine certificate or not etc. If you are not careful your time and money will be wasted.

Not only using these online or offline resources, but you can also watch Japanese anime, movies or listening to a Japanese- English mixed podcast also. It will be beneficial for you. You can make yourself a career out of it. So let us dedicate ourselves to learning new things.