I’m working in a Japanese office in Tokyo. While I get by with Japanese, I take a long time to write formal emails/messages and I don’t feel confident sending many of them, which eats up a lot of my time.
I mentioned this to my work and was told that if I could find a course that would help me with business Japanese, they might be able to pay for all of it for me.
They have a system set up now for learning English online that’s fully paid for (I think DMM) but nothing yet for Japanese. Especially since it’d be free for me, I’m wondering if anyone has any suggestions.
I’ve looked around a bit online but haven’t found anything that matches the English program that they currently have. It should be something fairly structured e.g. no private tutors.
I’ve done some of the TOYO Japanese Language Program one-off courses in the past but they’re during work hours.
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I personally used Coto Academy online courses for JLPT prep, and I remember seeing them having some business Japanese classes too
I don’t have any recommendations, but in addition to the classes, would one of your coworkers be open to a language exchange? We’ve had English and Japanese classes from before I joined, but my Japanese colleagues’ English got so much better when they started language exchanges. My English-speaking colleagues already had N1 so I didn’t really see any changes in their Japanese, but it seems like they enjoy it.
I went to Ohana Bloom in Ikebukuro few years back. They have intermediate and advanced Business courses. I took both in 6 months and my skills improved a lot.