Japanese Online Courses

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Read Japanese with Manu-Sensei

Story One from Reading Japanese for Beginners

Do you love reading because it helps you memorize not only vocabulary and grammar but also overall sentence structure?

Read the first story of "Reading Japanese for Beginners" together with me. We'll go through all the words and grammar that you need in order to understand everything easily.
The story is about a highschool student and her everyday life.

Date: August 25th, 9 am JST (find out here for your timezone)
Duration: 1.5 hours
How: On Zoom - Link and PDF file will be provided before the lesson
Good to know: hiragana and katakana, first vocabulary (around 50 words)
Goal: understand easy Japanese sentences, learn everyday vocabulary, get to know Japanese everyday life

Price: 15 USD, 60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

Reading Japanese for Beginners 15 USD

Japanese Crash Course - 2 x 1.5 hours

Make your first steps - from zero to first characters, words and sentences

Learn the absolute basics of the Japanese language and write your first Japanese words.

We start with the differences between Japanese and English. You will learn how the writing system works and about common study problems and how to overcome them. Then we will start with the first characters and words. Finally, we will learn how to build basic Japanese sentences.

Date: September 1st, and September 2nd at 8 am JST (find out here for your timezone)
Duration: 2 x 1.5 hours
How: On Zoom - Link and PDF file will be provided before the lesson
Good to know: no previous knowledge needed
Goal: learn how the Japanese language functions and write your first Japanese characters, words and sentences.

Price: 30 USD, 60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

Short Courses

Japanese Crashcourse 30 USD

Japanese Online Courses - Live on Zoom

Next start: September 15th

Start here: Japanese A1.0

Hiragana, Katakana, Basic Grammar and Vocabulary

Learning a language without being able to read and write is like walking through the world as a toddler. At first, it might seem convenient, but soon you’ll realize that you don’t have access to the more interesting adult life.

Grow up with our starter course and even learn basic grammar and lots of important vocabulary on the go!

Contents: hiragana, katakana, basic grammar and around 300 words. You will be able to build sentences by yourself, and pronounce words and whole sentences correctly. In the last live session, we will read a short story together!

Each lesson, we will learn new new characters, together with new words. We will practise together and I will check your characters. I will show you where you have to pay special attention to avoid common mistakes. I will also help you with memorizing and correct pronunciation.

This course focuses on the aquisition of the writing system, but will serve as a means of helping you learning your first words and sentences.

Studying a language is not only words and grammar - it also includes getting to know the culture. I will mix cultural information and background stories to help you immerse yourself into the Japanese language.

This is a live course via zoom. The course duration is 16 times, for 1.5 hours each.

Day/time: every Monday, 8:30 am-10:00 pm EST (find out here for your timezone)

Duration: September 15-December 29 2025

Price: 380 USD (payment in installments available, each additional installment increases the price by 20 USD)

Refund policy: 60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

Book A1.0 Course for 380 USD

Next start: September 16th

Continue: Japanese A1.1

Master particles, extend your grammar and vocabulary

For anybody who can already read and write hiragana as well as katakana.

In terms of grammar and vocabulary, we will start from scratch. Each lesson, we will learn a set of vocabulary in order to understand a short dialogue. Together with the sentences of the dialogue, we will learn all necessary grammar and sentence structures these sentences are based on.

Then we will practice these dialogues, first by listening, then by repeating (I have a neat trick that also works for complete beginners) and then by slightly changing the sentences of the dialogue according to your own lifestyle/interests.

This way, you get a grasp on the Japanese language, including grammar and vocabulary without the usual hassle of having to force your brain to memorize vocab in a boring and inefficient way.

There's homework, but the way my homework is set up requires you to only find around 10 minutes a day of immersion time.

This is a live course via zoom. The course duration is 16 times, for 1.5 hours each.

Day/time: every Tuesday, 8 pm-9:30 pm EST (find out for your timezone)

Duration: September 16-December 30 2025

Price: 380 USD (payment in installments available, each additional installment increases the price by 20 USD)

Refund policy: 60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

Book A1.1 Course for 380 USD

Private Lesson Package with Manu

10 x 45 minutes (valid for 1 year upon purchase)
680 USD (payment in installments available, each additional installment increases the price by 20 USD)

60-day money-back guarantee, no questions asked

Lessons can be booked for the following times:
Sunday-Thursday, 7:30 pm - midnight EST (EDT)
Contact me for a free consultation at manu@japanesewithmanu.com

Purchase package for 680 USD

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