PRIVATE & SEMI-PRIVATE LESSONS

I’ve been studying the Japanese language with KonnichiWhat Japanese Language School for 8 months now, and honestly, time really flies when you’re having fun! The teachers are very nice, patient, and fun, which makes every lesson so enjoyable. I always look forward to my Saturday class.

I started in a group class but later decided to switch to one-to-one lessons so I could learn at my own pace. Both the group classes and the one-to-one lessons have been amazing.

Hopefully, one day I’ll be able to communicate fluently in Japanese. It’s been such a rewarding journey so far, and I’m excited to keep improving and learning more every day.

Thank you, KonnichiWhat Japanese Language School, for making my Japanese learning journey so fun and rewarding!

I’ve been studying Japanese with Kumi and Fuyuka for 6 years now and throughout that time their teaching has always been very supportive, engaged, and above all, fun! I really look forward to my lessons each week and even when I go in tired after a long day I somehow always leave feeling energised and inspired.

Over that time I’ve switched focus between general group lessons, preparation for JLPT, and one-on-one conversation classes. The flexibility to alter my classes as my goals change has made it really easy to keep learning over the years.

By far the most rewarding part of my language journey has been getting to use my skills on holiday in Japan. Being able to converse makes it a lot easier to visit more remote areas and have chance encounters with local people.

For anyone interested in studying Japanese at any level, I don’t think there’s a better school in Melbourne than KonnichiWhat.

くみ先生とふゆか先生、色々なことを教えてくれて本当にありがとうございます。

If you’re looking to learn Japanese, I can’t recommend KonnichiWhat enough! Every class is so well structured! I do the private online classes and they are incredibly understanding and flexible if you need to adjust dates and times.

I’m really impressed with what a safe, fun learning environment KonnichiWhat has created. I’m a person who’s always worried about making mistakes (even though that’s part of the learning journey…), but Miho-sensei has been so encouraging and kind that I’m becoming less and less worried about that and instead focusing on the wins! Learning another language is hard and I personally have a long way to go, but these classes are the highlight of my week and I’m so excited to continue to eventual fluency!

KonnichiWhat, ありがとうございます。

I taught myself Japanese for almost two years before joining this school, mostly through drama, podcasts, ChatGpt and YouTube teachers. My comprehension was….okay, but I genuinely struggled to speak. Producing a sentence in real time felt impossible.

15 lessons in with Fuyuka sensei and Mina sensei, that’s changed more than I expected. Every lesson is a full hour, entirely in Japanese — no English — and most of it is just me speaking: narrating, having real conversations, working through things on the spot. My Japanese is still far from where I want it to be, and that frustrates me at times, but my reaction time is faster, my word choice comes more naturally, and my polite register comes out without me having to stop and think about it. I’m producing imperfect but full sentences without translating in my head first. I simply couldn’t do any of this 15 lessons ago.

Recently just came back from a short trip to Japan, I was surprised at how far I’ve come. Still stumbled a few times but was able to engage in banter with the ramen master at 2am in the morning and have a good laugh with him. That was really something and very encouraging.

Fuyuka sensei and Mina sensei have both been sharp at catching the gap between “technically correct” and “how a native speaker would actually say it” — exactly what I needed. My weekly class is something I genuinely look forward to every week.