Students study the four language abilities in a well-balanced way through a practical curriculum, aiming for enrollment at a university, graduate school or vocational college.
In Japanese Language Course, students gather from all over the world, and they are studying Japanese comprehensively according to their level of Japanese. Our originally developed textbooks and practical teaching method, develop abilities of “reading”, “listening”, “writing”, and “speaking”, have good reputation. And more, we prepare you homeroom system that enables you to receive guidance for study and course after graduation from homeroom teachers, so that you can concentrate in your Japanese studying. “Want to test ability of Japanese in Japan”, “Want to make Japanese friends”, “Want to experience ordinary life in Japan”, though purposes of students are different like this, they all have high enthusiasm of studying Japanese, and they stimulate each other and study Japanese.

Special Features of the Program

Course Characteristics 01
Team – Teaching, mainly by full-time teachers utilizing the direct method.
Course Characteristics 02
B.I.L.'s teaching method is characterized by our original textbooks used extensively by Japanese teachers worldwide and by the approach utilizing audio-visual devices. Our unique curriculum and study materials are based on its superb experience in education.
Course Characteristics 03
Instructions of skills necessary for after entering college.
Course Characteristics 04
Homeroom system. Students receive close guidance for study and course after graduation.

Weekly Schedule

  月 MON 火 TUE 水 WED 木 THU 金 FRI
1st period
9:10~10:00		 会話
Japanese communication		 会話
Japanese communication		 テスト
Test		 文法
Grammar		 文法
Grammar
2nd period
10:10~11:00		 文法
Grammar		 読解
Reading		 文法
Grammar		 会話
Japanese communication
3rd period
11:10~12:00		 読解
Reading		 文法
Grammar		 会話
Japanese communication
4th period
13:00~13:50		 作文
Writing		 CALL
CALL		 作文
Writing		 作文
Writing		 聴解
Listening
5th period
14:00~14:50		 漢字
Kanji		 聴解
Listening		 漢字
Kanji		 聴解
Listening		 ホームルーム
Home room

Curriculum

B.I.L. offers an efficient curriculum that develops reading, listening, writing and speaking skills according to each individual's Japanese language ability.
  Beginners Intermediate Advanced
 
  • Bunka Elementary Japanese I(Revised Edition)
  • Bunka Elementary Japanese II(Revised Edition)
Teaches basic Japanese sentence structures and how to use them in everyday life.
  • Bunka Intermediate Japanese I
  • Bunka Intermediate Japanese II
Increases students’ vocabulary and understanding of grammar, and teaches them how to express themselves and apply their knowledge.
  • Advanced textbook
  • Self-made teaching materials(videos, newspapers, novels, etc.)
Teaches students how to express themselves more naturally in Japanese through understanding of Japan’s culture, history, and current situation, while at the same time increasing their practical Japanese language ability by using it in real situations such as interview surveys and so forth.
Reading
  • Students become able to read characters, words, and short sentences.
  • Students learn how to read and understand texts containing vocabulary, expressions, and sentence structures that they have learned.
  • Students are familiarized with a variety of different texts—including newspaper articles, essays, brochures, reports, and letters—and learn how to correctly understand their contents.
  • Students learn how to analyze words and phrases that they have not yet learned, and read sentences containing them.
  • Students become able to read and understand newspaper articles and other materials relating to Japanese issues and current affairs.
  • Students become able to read and appreciate literary works.
Listening
  • Students become able to listen to and understand conversations and coherent texts based on everyday situations.
  • Students become able to listen to and understand conversations and coherent texts based on a broader range of topics, rather than only everyday situations.
  • Students learn how to understand and summarize news and current events.
  • Students become able to understand TV programs.
Speaking
  • Students learn how to correctly pronounce syllables, words, and short sentences.
  • Students become able to converse in daily situations using phrases they have learned.
  • Students learn how to use different manners of speech depending on the person and situation.
  • Students become able to report information, state their own opinions, and hold a coherent conversation.
  • Students learn how to speak with natural intonation, pronunciation, and speed.
  • Students become able to adequately converse on a wide range of topics, such as a chat and discussion.
  • Students learn how to give presentations that are interesting and easy to understand.
Writing
  • Students become able to create short sentences using sentence structures that they have learned.
  • Students become able to write about themselves based around themes such as a diary, self-introduction, future goals, their family, and so forth.
  • Students become able to write coherent sentence, using vocabulary and intermediate sentence structures that have learned.
  • Students learn to write opinions, essays, and reports.
  • Students become able to accurately summarize long texts.
  • Students learn how to accumulate information regarding set themes by themselves, analyze it, and structure short essays and reports using it.
Kanji

Kanji Countries

  • Students learn the differences between kanji in their own language and in Japanese.
  • Students become able to read and write around 800 basic kanji.
Non-Kanji Countries
  • Students are familiarized with kanji, and their origin and structure.
  • Students become able to read basic kanji, and to write 500 particularly essential kanji.
  • Students develop sufficient kanji ability of N 2 level. Students learn how to read and write, and correctly understand and use kanji.
  • Students develop sufficient kanji ability that they are not hindered in everyday life or in academic research in Japan.

Message

B.I.L. is the environment where you can study Japanese at ease.
Students gathered from around the world have fun studying Japanese and respect each others' culture. Each class has a homeroom teacher whom students can consult with at any time regard studies or post-educational goals, enabling them to feel at ease studying Japanese.