Learning Catchball
Let's learn Japanese from online Japanese teachers / language exchange partners!
- We introduce you online Japanese teachers or online language exchange partners. You can select online Japanese teachers or online language exchange partners on the application form at the bottom of this page.
| Online Japanese teachers |
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| You can learn JLPT, basic Japanese, conversation, business Japanese, etc. You don't need to teach English, so you can focus on learning Japanese. Please note that you need to pay lesson fees. |
| Online language exchange partners |
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| You can learn Japanese conversation, practice speaking Japanese with our Japanese members(your language partners), in return you need to help them to learn English. |
Online Japanese teachers
Lesson course
- You can select a lesson course below. If you take a 30 minutes course 4 times a month, lesson fee for 1 month will be 8,000 yen( 2,000 yen × 4 lessons).
| 30 minutes course | 1 lesson 2,000 yen |
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| 45 minutes course | 1 lesson 2,500 yen |
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| 60 minutes course | 1 lesson 3,000 yen |
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- First you can take a free trial lesson, please decide to sign up or not after the trial lesson.
Step 1 : Application
- Plesae fill out what you like to learn in the application form at the bottom of this page.
- After we receive your application, we will ask you what day of the week and what time you are available and try to arrange an online Japanese teacher as per your requests.
- You can take 1 on 1 online lessons in the time slot below
- After we arrange him/her, we will send you his/her information. If you like to try his/her trial lesson, we will exchange the email address and let him/her guide you to the trial lesson by email.
Step 2 : Free trial lesson
- He/she will offer you a free trial lesson(20 to 30 minutes) and suggest a lesson plan as per your targets to learn Japanese. If you have any questions or requests, you can ask your tutor at the free trial lesson.
Step 3 : Confirmation
- After the trial lesson, we ask you if you sign up for his/her regular lesson or not.
Step 4 : Payment(lesson fee)
- If you decide to apply for his/her regular lesson, you need to pay lesson fee to him/her(your Japanese teacher) directly. Basically you need to pay lesson fee for the next 1 month in advance.
| ※Textbooks fees are not included in the above lesson fee. |
| ※Payment method : You can select credit card or paypal or bank transfer. If you make the payment with paypal, there's a 5% surcharge. |
Step 5 : Payment(introduction fee)
- We ask you to pay the introduction(matching) fee 5,000 yen (Only once payment) to the Learning Catchball.
- Only in case you decide to apply for his/her regular lesson, we will charge you the introduction fee. If you decide not to apply, you don't need to pay it.
| ※Payment method : You can select paypal or bank transfer. If you make the payment with paypal, there's a 5% surcharge. We would like you to make this payment with paypal if you are outside Japan. |
Online language exchange partner
First you can have trial language exchange lessons!!
- After we receive your application form, we'll match you with our Japanese member who fits your needs
Learning Catchball Japanese members
- Our Japanese members are happy to help you to learn Japanese for free, in return please help our Japanese members to learn English conversation for free.
- Learn Japanese:
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 tell us what you like to learn on the application form. They will be happy to help you to learn Japanese.
- Help our Japanese members to learn English :
Our Japanese members have basic English grammar skills, but they are not good at speaking English because they have few opportunities to practice conversation. So please have conversation with them in English and help them to improve their English speaking skills.
Message from the Learning Catchball
Let's enjoy language exchange!!
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| I am Taro Koyanagi, I was a Japanese teacher at Japanese school in Tokyo and started up this service in 2009 to help people to learn Japanese. We hope you have language exchange lessons regularly with our Japanese members and enjoy learning Japanese! |
How to start
StepⅠ:Introduction
- After we receive your application, we'll ask you some questions and try to introduce you our Japanese members(language partner's candidate) who fit your needs.
- After you check the member's profile,
if you like to have trial language exchange lessons with the member, we will exchange your email address with the member's email address.
if you don't accept the Japanese member, we will try to arrange other Japanese members for you.
| some questions to ask |
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| Do you have any requirements for our Japanese members(language partners)? |
| How many times a week/month do you like to have language exchange lessons? |
| What day of the week/what time are you available for language exchange lessons? |
- If it is difficult to fix your availability, we try to introduce you our Japanese members who can be flexible with the timing, then you can talk with the Japanese member about the schedule and decide.
Step Ⅱ:Trial language exchange
| Trial language exchange lesson | 0 yen |
Trial language exchange for 1 month
- You can have trial language exchange lessons several times within 1 month after we forward our Japanese member's email address to you.
- Let's talk with the Japanese member about how to do the language exchange lessons each other and check if language exchange lessons with the Japanese member are good or not during the trial period.
- After trial language exchange lessons,
If you decide to continue the language exchange with the Japanese members, please go to Step Ⅲ and pay the introduction(matching) fee
If you decide not to continue, you don't need to pay the introduction(matching) fee. We will try to introduce you other members if you like.
Step Ⅲ:Payment
| Lesson fee | 0 yen |
| Introduction(matching) fee | 5000 yen |
- Only in case you and our Japanese member agree on continuing the language exchange, we will charge you the introduction(matching) fee.
- Paypal : We would like you to make this payment with paypal if you are outside Japan.
Learning basic Japanese materials(self-study)
- If you like to learn basic Japanese from Hiragana to JLPT N5 level, we can offer you the following learning materials for self-study. If you like to try, please select 『Yes, I like』on the application form. Then we will send you a list of the following 27 learning baic Japanese materials. First you can try 2 lessons materials for free. If you sign up for 1 on 1 online lessons, we can offer you all materials for free.
- Each lesson has 15 to 20 Japanese exercises(questions). You can check video, grammar guidance, vocabulary list before you try them.
| Hiragana/basic sentence level |
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| 9 lessons materials |
| JLPT N5 level |
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| 18 lessons materials |
- You can learn the following Japanese by working out basic Japanese exercises(questions). We offer you model answers for them, so you can expect to learn them by yourself.
| Hiragana/Basic Japanese vocabulary/Japanese form |
| How to make basic Japanese sentences |
| Japanese conversation sentences/phrase |
- Please note that these learning materials are not related to 1 on 1 online Japanese lessons.
Sample Japanese exercises(questions)
Vocabulary
| 音声を聞いて、下記の絵について適当な日本語を選んでください。 |
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| おんせいをきいて、かきのえについててきとうなにほんごをえらんでください |
| Please listen to the audio and choose an appropriate answer about the following picture |
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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。
Making sentences
| 下記の英語文を日本語文にして言ってください。 |
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| かきのえいごぶんをにほんごぶんにしていってください。 |
| Please translate the following sentences into Japanese sentence and read them loud. |
| ① :He gets on a taxi |
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| ② : I was an English teacher |
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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。
Conversation sentences
| 下記の絵を見て『~てください』を使って会話文を作成してください。 |
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| かきのえをみて『~てください』をつかってかいわぶんをさくせいしてください。 |
| Please make conversation sentences with ~てください about the following picture. |
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。
Application form
- Your personal information is not open to the public.
- Please note that depending on your conditions/requests, it takes time to arrange online Japanese teachers/language exchange partners or we can not arrange for you. If we judge you are less motivated to learn Japanese language, we can not provide you with our 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 online Japanese teachers/language exchange partners.
Terms of Use
- We(Learning Catchball) do not check each entry person's ID and take any responsibility for any troubles between you and your online Japanese teachers/language exchange partners.
- We(Learning Catchball) can not be responsible for the truth of each entry information and the quality of each entry person's character(personality).
- We can not accept applicants under the age of 18.
- We(Learning Catchball) revise these Terms of Use whenever we need.
- ※Introduction(matching) fee 5000yen : If you select "I don't agree", then we can't introduce you our online Japanese teachers/language exchange partners.
- ※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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