Japanese Evening Classes..

Princey

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Does anybody know anywhere in the Midlands, preferably Shropshire, Worcestershire or the West Midlands that offer evening or weekend Japanese Courses? I can't find a single one that isn't too late to enrol on or is full. Ideally I'd want to do a class rather than pay £40p/h for private tuition.

I've tried Birmingham Uni, Worcester Uni, Wolverhampton Uni and a fair few local colleges.
 
I suspect you will find that it is to late to enrol now given it is mid-October, around here at least things seem to have been running for a week or two. You might need to wait until January.
 
I would like the know the same, but in Essex/Hertfordshire. Searching online is really difficult, because you just get a lot of spammy websites trying to sell online courses.
 
Princey said:
Are there usually new courses for the Spring/Summer then?
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Depends, but the language schools around here seem to work on their courses being in 12 week units so start new ones in January. Uni departments might be different though.

edit: tbh, having looked at the same myself in my area, finding good information on what is available and how to apply leaves much to be desired.
 
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They only appear to go to level 1 though. I don't want to do level 1 at one place and then find level 2 somewhere else. I'd much rather do them all in a single location.
 
Don't forget your anime real-doll cushion.

It's hard to take people who want to take Japanese lessons seriously now, they have such a stigma.
 
[self-esteem] Well thats not me, I don't give a rats about anime or that crap, I'm just fascinated by their culture and I want to give myself a real challange a prove to myself that I can achieve something pretty awesome if want. [/self-esteem]

Plus it'll steer me away from video games and other crap I do. There is a Japanese Society in Birmingham which hold events and culture days so it'd be really cool to go to there.
 
Princey said:
Does anybody know anywhere in the Midlands, preferably Shropshire, Worcestershire or the West Midlands that offer evening or weekend Japanese Courses? I can't find a single one that isn't too late to enrol on or is full. Ideally I'd want to do a class rather than pay £40p/h for private tuition.

I've tried Birmingham Uni, Worcester Uni, Wolverhampton Uni and a fair few local colleges.
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Have you tried the Wolverhampton Adult College?

http://www.aes.wolverhampton.gov.uk/

I'm doing the Absolute Beginners Japanese course atm. Website says the current course is full but in the class I'm on we've had two new people join two weeks in a row. Worth a shot if you haven't tried.

The Post Beginners says it has 9 places.

There was also this place in Birmingham which i came across a while ago if you haven't checked it out.

http://www.birmingham.gov.uk/brasshouse

Good luck, it's a fun and challenging language to learn.
 
KNiVES said:
Don't forget your anime real-doll cushion.

It's hard to take people who want to take Japanese lessons seriously now, they have such a stigma.
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I don't really know what you're talking about, but personally, I don't really like anime. Is there a stigma over learning Japanese?

I am studying it because I lived there and would like to do so again, but it's difficult to get a good job without a high level of Japanese.
 
i lived there for 2 years and didn't bother to learn anything :eek:

if you want to learn japanese i suggest you make an advert on here (http://www.my-sensei.com/sensei/) advertising your services as an english teacher and i'm sure someone would be willing to do a cultural exchange

it's worth a try
 
Princey said:
[self-esteem] Well thats not me, I don't give a rats about anime or that crap, I'm just fascinated by their culture and I want to give myself a real challange a prove to myself that I can achieve something pretty awesome if want. [/self-esteem]

Plus it'll steer me away from video games and other crap I do. There is a Japanese Society in Birmingham which hold events and culture days so it'd be really cool to go to there.
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There are many more useful languages to learn if this is your goal.
 
[TW]Fox;20314520 said:
There are many more useful languages to learn if this is your goal.
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I was thinking exactly this.

Hell, there are much more useful things you could learn over a relatively useless to you language.

http://www.titansfamilymartialarts.co.uk/index.html

Seems like a nice friendly full contact gym at first glance.

Go learn Ju Jitsu or Boxing or something, being confident in yourself physically does wonders in your self-esteem.
 
hurfdurf said:
I was thinking exactly this.

Hell, there are much more useful things you could learn over a relatively useless to you language.

http://www.titansfamilymartialarts.co.uk/index.html

Seems like a nice friendly full contact gym at first glance.

Go learn Ju Jitsu or Boxing or something, being confident in yourself physically does wonders in your self-esteem.
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OP wants to chat up japanese birds though
 
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