Award-Winning Japanese Courses & Classes in Portland, OR

If you have decided to learn the Japanese language, you can reach out to Varsity Tutors to help you enroll in a Portland Japanese course. Whether you are studying at the University of Portland or you're a high school student at David Douglas High School or Lincoln High School, this language course could be exactly the thing you need to gain a better understanding of Japanese.

One thing you need when studying any new language, including Japanese, is practice with your language communication skills, whether you are conversing with someone through writing or whether you're engaging in an out-loud conversation. A Portland Japanese course helps you with this as it provides many consistent opportunities to speak with other classmates as well as letting you learn from a professional Japanese teacher. Enrolling in a Portland Japanese class can help you in many ways, including giving you the ability to enjoy Japanese literature.

Japanese is the official language of Japan and is mostly used in the Japanese archipelago. Since the mid-20th century, Japan has been the only nation that has used this language as an official tongue. The language has more than 127 million speakers across the globe and it is considered to be one of the world's major languages.

Originally, Japanese was thought to be a language isolate and had no other languages that related to it. Now, though, some people believe that it is part of the Japonic language family. Many people have attempted to establish a relationship between other different language families and Japanese. One of the strongest theories is that Korean and Japanese are somehow related.

What sorts of materials does a Portland Japanese class cover?

One of the things you will learn when studying Japanese is the structure of nouns. In the Japanese language, nouns have no gender, grammatical number, or article aspect. As one example of a noun, the word "Kuruma" may refer to one car or several cars. If the number of cars is important, the sentence may indicate it by having a quantity attached, with a counter word, or it may add a suffix, though this is not as common.

Sentence structure is something else that you will learn. In Japanese, sentences are ordered as subject-object-verb. You must place the verb at the end of sentences as this is the strictest rule in word order. Native English speakers often struggle with this because many Indo-European languages differ in word order. In English, most sentences are going to be ordered as subject-verb-object. One example would be the English sentence "I write books" which in Japanese structure would read as "I books write".

Japanese has only two tenses for conjugating verbs. These are referred to as the past and the non-past. The reason it is called the non-past is that the language requires the same tense when referring to something happening in the present and something happening in the future.

Your Japanese instructor will be there for you when you are trying to learn all the complexities of nouns, sentence structure, and verbs. They can also help you learn proper pronunciation, essential vocabulary, and common phrases. You will also learn more about Japanese history and culture.

How can a Portland Japanese course teach me?

If you are looking for the convenience of a virtual classroom that will cut down on your need for long commutes as well as providing you the opportunity to study wherever you want, then a Portland Japanese class could be just the thing to help you build up your comprehension skills.

This class is fully interactive, meaning that you will be able to participate in the many activities and discussions engineered to provide you with a solid foundation of the Japanese language. You can participate with other students and your teacher since you are able to see them and hear them in this live learning environment. When you help another student or another student helps you, it can increase both of your levels of fluency.

Depending on how your skills have evolved and how comfortable you are hearing and speaking the language, some teachers may decide to teach portions of your class entirely in Japanese so that you can have a more immersive atmosphere.

If you need some private instruction, you can request time with your instructor, which will allow you to get some one-on-one direction for subjects that you're finding more difficult than others.

How do I begin enrollment?

Once you have decided that you want to start learning the Japanese language, you can reach out to Varsity Tutors to help get you enrolled in a Portland Japanese course. You will be provided with information regarding what courses are available and how you can join one, as well as details about what kind of materials the course will be covering. Whether you are a complete beginner to the Japanese language, or you already know parts of the language, you can soon start building your skills and increasing your Japanese proficiency.