Course with Gilles

Gilles — Japanese Phrases for Travel: Two Weeks

Japanese phrases for travel, drilled 1:1 against a clerk who answers off-script instead of memorised from a phrasebook. Five blocks covering a ryokan check-in, a counter izakaya and a missed Shinkansen, ending when you survive ten unrehearsed second turns in a row.

What you’ll master — Outcomes you can use

  1. I survive ten unrehearsed second turns in a row

Your tutor

A travel Japanese tutor who has fixed more missed connections at Kyoto Station than he can count and teaches only what a traveller says out loud.

Brisk · Encouraging · Allergic to phrasebook filler

The plan — What’s inside

  1. Checking In And Taking Off Your Shoes
  2. Ordering At The Counter
  3. Buying A Ticket And Missing It
  4. Asking For The Thing I Cannot Name
  5. Being Asked Something Back

5 parts

Questions about this course

What Japanese do I actually need for two weeks of trains and izakayas?

Japanese phrases for travel, drilled 1:1 against a clerk who answers off-script instead of memorised from a phrasebook. Five blocks covering a ryokan check-in, a counter izakaya and a missed Shinkansen, ending when you survive ten unrehearsed second turns in a row.

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