Learning Catchball

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• 1 on 1 online Japanese lesson
• 1 on 1 language exchange lesson
• Learning materials for self-study
• Homework for basic speaking/grammar/vocabulary

I am Taro Koyanagi, in charge of the Learning Catchball. I was manager at Japanese language school in Tokyo and started up this service to help people to learn Japanese.

Language exchange lesson

Let's learn Japanese conversation from language exchange lesson!

• You can learn Japanese for free, in return you need to teach English for free.

• Our Japanese members are all native Japanese speakers and keen to learn and teach language. They like to have language exchange lessons regularly, so you can have a lot of opportunities to learn and speak Japanese.

• Please submit the application at the bottom of this page if you like to try 1 on 1 language exchange lesson.

You can select face to face and online language exchange.

• Face to face(in person) language exchange
  Regarding the face to face language exchange, we have language exchange members in Tokyo, Kanagawa, Saitama, Chiba area.

• Online language exchange

Application

StepⅠ:Introduction

• After we receive your application, we will introduce you our Japanese members as per your requests.

• After you check the member's profile, if you like to contact the member, we will exchange your email address with the member's email address.

Update Japanese member's list

• Sample profile of our Japanese member.

Step Ⅱ:Trial language exchange

• Please take a trial language exchange lesson with the members and decide to continue to do the language exchange with the members or not

• At the trial language exchange, you can talk with your language partner's candidate about how to do the language exchange lesson each other.

Step Ⅲ:Payment

Service fees

• Introduction fee is a result based fee:After the trial language exchange, we confirm with you and your language partner(Japanese member) if you will continue to do the language exchange or not. Only in case you and your language partner agree on continuing the language exchange, we will charge you the introduction fee. (You can select bank transfer or paypal. ※ If you make the payment through paypal, there's a 5% surcharge)

• If you decide not to continue the language exchange with the member, then we don't charge you the introduction fee. If you like to try the language exchange with other members, we will try to arrange other members for you.

Free Learning materials(optional)

• If you need learning materials, we recommend you our learning materials. If you like, please select 『Yes, I like』on the application form below. Then we will send you the sample page for learning materials. With learning materials, you can learn the following Japanese.

• basic Japanese speaking
  We have many basic Japanese speaking questions. After completing these speaking questions, you can expect to have basic Japanese speaking skills. Let's try the questions with your language partners.
• basic Japanese knowledge and grammar
  We have many free video lessons. You can learn JLPT N5 and N4 level basic Japanese from these free video lessons.

• Sample video lessons

• Vocabulary
  ①Basic vocabulary lists（verb100/adjective100/noun100) with picture and voice
  ②Online flash cards(vocabulary/sample sentences) related to daily life conversation topics.

• ①
  • play
  • pause
  • stop
  • mute
  • vol_max
  • prev
  • next

  このコンテンツを再生するには、Adobe Flashプレイヤーが必要です。

• ①
  • play
  • pause
  • stop
  • mute
  • vol_max
  • prev
  • next

  このコンテンツを再生するには、Adobe Flashプレイヤーが必要です。

Requests to your language partners

• Regarding the way of learning Japanese, If you have any requests to your language partners, please feel free to tell us on the application form.

• Speech correction(homework):This is very good way to improve your language skills.

• If you like to try this learning method, please select 『I have an interest』on the speech correction box in the application form.

• ※We recommend you should keep the voice data within 1 minute.

Online Japanese lesson for a fee

• If you like to focus on learning Japanese, we introduce you our Japanese members who teach you Japanese(you don't need to teach English). If you have an interest in 1 on 1 online Japanese lesson, please select 『I have an interest』on the box 『Japanese lesson(for a fee)』in the application form below.

Application form

• We will reply to you by email within 24 hours after we get your application to confirm your application. Our email(info@learning-catchball.com) is sometimes misclassified as spam. So please check the spam box when you don't get a reply from us.

• Your personal information is not open to the public.

• Please note that depending on your conditions/requests, it takes time to arrange language partners or we can not arrange language partners for you. If we judge you are less motivated to learn Japanese language, we can not provide you with our language exchange partner's introduction service.

• ※Important notice
  We do not check each member's ID.
  We do not take any responsibility for any troubles between you and your language partners.

• Red mark=Required

• ※Introduction fee 3000yen : Please select "I agree". You need pay the introduction fee after you decide to do language exchange with our Japanese members. If you select "I don't agree", then we can't introduce you.

Which exchange	face to face(in person) online
Which partner	female language partner male language partner both language partners
What do you learn?	language culture cooking business sports
Introduction fee	I agree I don't agree
Free learning materials	No thank you Yes I like
Japanese lesson(for a fee)	Yes I have an interest No I don't have an interest
Name
Sex	Male Female
Age	18years old～24years old 25years old～29years old 30years old～34years old 35years old～39years old 40years old～44years old 45years old～49years old 50years old～54years old 55years old～59years old 60years old～
Occupation
Your area
Nationality
Self-introduction
Requests to your partners
Speech correction	Yes I have an interest No I don't have an interest
Email address *
Japanese level	beginner intermediate advance
English level	beginner intermediate advance native level
terms of use	I agree I do not agree

• ※After you fill in the blank,please click the Confirm above.
• ※After you click the Confirm and check your information,please click the Send .

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