I’ve talked about it for a while but I finally signed up for Nihonjin gakuen (Japanese school). I’ve taken Spanish and French in the past but never a difficult language like Japanese. I’ve been spending a lot of time in Tokyo off and on over the last year for work so taking a structured class will help. The school I chose is located on Octavia and Pine called “Soko Gakuen”. The location is great, the schedule is great, and the price is right. It’s a 12-week intensive class where I’ll officially learn how to read & write Hiragana characters.Course Description
The development of survival listening and speaking skills, and basic vocabulary. Upon completion of this basic information–name, phone number, occupation; negate a sentence; make purchases; ask and answer course, the student should be able to: use daily expressions (greetings & salutations); provide and ask the price for things; ask and tell time, count objects; describe what one does and will do (going & coming, travel by taxi, etc.); describe locations; ask for information (What…? Where…? Who?… etc.).

Classes are Wednesday nights from 6pm - 9pm so a full weeks worth of material is covered in three hours. I just finished my first lesson tonight and felt pretty comfortable. The sensei loaded us up with homework and it’s finally homework I’m excited and willing to do. Makes a big difference when you actually enjoy the class!

So here’s a link to the Japanese School but being an SEO-guy, I’ve of course analyze their site. A pagerank of 5/10 is not bad for a poorly chosen url hanging off the aol.com site. I almost just want to suggest a change to a new prominent domain like www.sokogakuen.com or something. Not only will it improve their brand but also make it easy for their students to remember. Ok….enough with the SEO stuff.
Sayonara for now!

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