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[greekvvedge]

Anyone know anywhere to learn Japanese in Seoul, preferably for an international student body?


thanks

[Scamps]

YBM in Jongro offers Japanese classes. There were several other institutes I posted that taught Japanese but it was awhile back...

[Mosley]

Make sure you tell all your Korean colleagues/friends how eager you are to study Japanese!

Is that Mishima Yukio in your avatar?

Maybe the Japanese Embassy could point you in the right direction?

[anjinsan]

I've been learning on my own with books and frequent trips to Japan.
There are a lot of great books at the big bookstores in Seoul for learning Japanese, especially those from Tuttle publishing.
This approach has proven effective in my case, learning the hiragana, katakana, and constantly working with the kanji, memorizing tons of vocab, doing a lot of grammar exercises, studying cultural bits related to language/communication, then actually going to Japan and using it all.
I truly value the fact that most Japanese folks you meet in Japan
will speak to you in Japanese (in my experience at least, as a tourist) without the hesitation and embarrassed grins you often get from Koreans---as if no human being could ever grasp the mysterious Korean language; whereas the Japanese may tend to view the situation with more clarity:
"You are in Japan. You need to speak Japanese dummy!"

I have found that my proficiency in the Korean language also
really helps me with learning Japanese--particularly in regard to grammar and Chinese characters.

I'd like to recommend one book that will really help with colloquial Japanese: "Japanese in Mangaland." This book uses manga as a way to teach Japanese grammar, making special note of the differences
in colloquial and formal language. It is a fun book too.

This is the wonderful thing about being based in Korea, since one has so many different Asian cultures to learn about and from.

Have fun!!!

[Yaya]

There are quite a few Koreans who are fluent in Japanese, but then again, there are many Japanese in Korea, too.

There is a club in Sinchon that gathers people interested in speaking Japanese, but you'll have to search for that on the Web.

Learning Japanese won't be too hard in Seoul.

[bish]

[misher]