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

• Message from a Japanese teacher

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).

• 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.

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.

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!!

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.

• 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 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

• 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.

• 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.

• Please note that these learning materials are not related to 1 on 1 online Japanese lessons.

Sample Japanese exercises(questions)

Vocabulary

• Question1-1

• Question1-2

Making sentences

Conversation sentences

• Question1

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.

• Red mark=Required

• ※Introduction(matching) fee 5000yen : If you select "I don't agree", then we can't introduce you our online Japanese teachers/language exchange partners.

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