Why choose us over an AI teacher?

Highlight your weak points with a teacher

Every learner has different weak points. For example, some people have difficulty with remembering new words. Other people struggle with the difference between their mother tongue and Japanese. Some people don’t like the conjugations of Japanese verbs. Some people aren’t confident in speaking.

Your teacher can help find your weak points. They can determine where you make frequent mistakes. (If nobody points out the cause of the error, the problem is never solved.)

They will prepare custom exercises for you, not just provide you with general information from a textbook. You’ll have topics of conversation tailored to you, so you can learn in a fun way most suited to you personally.

  • Japanese in person lessons

    In Person Lessons

    • Communicate better with the local people

    • Help with daily life skills like dining or shopping etc.

  • Japanese online lessons

    Online lessons

    • Find a time that suits your busy schedule

    • Zoom, Skype, Google Meet or Microsoft Teams etc.

  • Japanese visitor lessons

    Visitors Lessons

    • Immersion courses in person or online lessons before your trip

    • Brush up on skills to aid your travels

  • Japanese kids lessons

    Kids Lessons

    • Help with preparation before entering local schools

    • Assist their study at local schools

  • Learn Japanese in Tokyo

    Do you want to practice Japanese before your trip？Use our visitor lessons to make your trip more memorable!

    You will practice survival conversations for restaurants, shopping, taxis and more!

  • YouTube Japanese lessons

    Learn Japanese through our bilingual animated series

    Every epispde is about 10 minutes long. You may find useful information within, which you won’t find in textbooks.

  • Instagram Japanese lessons

    Check out quick Intermediate Japanese lessons!

  • Shadowing practice

    Shadowing is a great way to practice speaking. Listen to the short dialogues and try to repeat them until you gain confidence!

What are the features of PJL’s teachers?

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Our Approach

Efficiency

Although we try to keep our lessons predominantly in Japanese, our teachers can give explanations in English if needed, so your questions will never go unanswered. Our bilingual teachers can analyze Japanese by comparing it to English or other languages.

Relevance

We strongly believe that you should focus on learning the Japanese which will be most beneficial to you. We teach you how to express yourself in contexts most relevant to you. It’s no good to simply repeat some phrases from a text book. We will address your personal interests and needs in Japanese!

Practicality

We value your time and effort, so we want to teach you something practical. For example, every textbook introduces “nakereba naranai” as an expression meaning “have to” or “must”. But, we prefer “naito ikenai” because this phrase is more commonly used and easier to learn. With our experience we can quickly identify the best thing to teach.

What Learners Are Saying

My teachers are competent, experienced and friendly. They’re really comitted to teaching and shape my lessons according to my needs. Every time I’m in Tokyo, I get a chance of intense learning. The teachers visit me at my place.

— A frequent visitor from Europe

My intensive Japanese lessons are fantastic, extraordinary teachers who customized lessons to my needs and who explained grammar and cultural nuance in fun and energetic ways. I highly recommend for anyone doing business or traveling to Japan.

— An intensive learner in Asia

We very much enjoy taking lessons with our teacher twice a week. The lessons are very well structured, the teacher is adapting to our needs, has great explanation skills and is very patient. We highly recommend learning Japanese with this organization.

— Two learners taking small group classes in Tokyo

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