Ultimately, it can be said that ”Learning a language” is to acquire the culture of the language.
For example, even if you got Japanese language skills as a certain level that can be used in daily life without any problems, but you will be in trouble with communications someday, because you doesn’t know or can’t use a phrase which favored by native speakers. If you don’t overcome this matter, you can not say that you got ”Natural Japanese” or ”Native-like Japanese” level.
In addition to teaching about the structure of the Japanese language, in our school, we also provide Japanese language education to understand Japanese-speakers’ cognition system and their culture.
From the early stage on Japanese language learning, we use our original teaching materials that incorporated and reflected concepts such as ”cognitive linguistics”, ”sociolinguistics”, and ”contrastive linguistics”. And the purpose of this course is to understand the characteristics of Japanese language, such as ”Japanese consideration” and ”native speakers’ sensibilities” by learning Japanese language, and acquire them as much as possible.
★Take a view of the situation in front of you and verbalize it.
★Expressing language with an awareness of the relationship between myself and the other person.
★The frequent use of end-particle and interjection words can urge the joint attention, and using proper onomatopoeias can share immersive emotion.
