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
- 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
- Checking In And Taking Off Your Shoes
- Ordering At The Counter
- Buying A Ticket And Missing It
- Asking For The Thing I Cannot Name
- 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.