KANRIN JAPANESE SCHOOL

   Hello, everyone! Kanrin Japanese School was founded in 1987. Our school is one of the oldest Japanese language schools in the Yokohama area, and authorized by the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education.

Our school's office rooms and teacher's lounges are all glazed, what makes the students feel free to come in and talk with our teaching and office staff at any time. Students may use school computers for self-study or just to surf through the internet. There is a total of 18 classrooms available for self-study.

Students studying at our institute are from more than 18 countries. They are staying in Japan with all different kinds of visas like Pre-College-, Working Holiday-, Family- and Business visas. Once a year there is a big Speech Contest in which everybody is welcome to participate.

   Our students are aiming at all prestigious awards, such as Prizes received by the Minister of Justice, the Minister of Education and Science, the Minister of Foreign Affairs, the Governor of Kanagawa Prefecture and the Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education. Students who do not participate in the contest support their classmates who compete in contests. Such contests help students to deepen their mutual understanding as well as to improve their Japanese.

Lessons are held using a direct method. The students are taught a consistent Japanese in the four basic fields reading, writing, listening and speaking. The Teaching method in which classes are held, as well as their success is generally accepted.To learn to think and to speak in Japanese and an active and enjoyable class makes the lessons advance.

   6 months after begining of classes will almost all students be able not only write and read Japanese, but also to be able to hold daily conversations. Students will also be prepared for the every year held Japanese Language Proficency Test as well as helped and given advices concerning the change to a higher institution of education (university or college). As teaching material we use not only books, newspaper articles and extracts from novels, but also modern media as for example news on television. To help our students to understand Japan better, Japanese culture as well as Japanese customs etc. are also taught in classes. As a result we release year after year dozens of students, which passed the extremely difficult entrance exams, to universities and colleges.

 

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