JBPP Curriculum

As you advance through the JBPP curriculum, you'll learn new expressions, etiquette, and more from an original custom-designed textbook series. You'll then apply them in practice sessions while using a variety of multimedia resources.

Course Outline
Module 1
  • Review of keigo (honorific language)
  • Keigo: visiting other companies and short greetings
  • Etiquette in conversation
  • Introductions and business card exchange
  • Greetings
  • Understanding Japanese culture: uchi / soto
  • How to write a Japanese resume: personal history
  • Pronunciation 1
  • Business telephone calls 1
  • Business e-mail correspondence 1
Module 2
  • Keigo: invitations, requests, expressing time, refusal
  • Using IME to read kanji properly
  • Writing name and address on Japanese stationery
  • Understanding Japanese culture: vertical relationship, horizontal relationship
  • How to write a Japanese resume: work history
  • Pronunciation 2
  • Business telephone calls 2
  • Business e-mail correspondence 2
Module 3
  • Keigo: expressing opinions, making proposals, offering help, making apologies
  • Proverbs
  • "Cushion kotoba"
  • Understanding Japanese culture: body language and kamiza / shimoza
  • Showing yourself off to best advantage at job interviews
  • Pronunciation 3
  • Business telephone calls 3
  • Business e-mail correspondence 3
Module 4
  • Keigo: leaving messages, confirmation, consulting, making appointments
  • Understanding Japanese corporate culture: honne / tatemae, reading between the lines, hou-ren-sou (report, contact, consult), timing, en (destiny or chance meeting)
  • Presentation in Japanese 1
  • Job interview
  • Pronunciation 4
  • Business telephone calls 4
  • Business e-mail correspondence 4
Module 5
  • Keigo: making requests, asking permission, explaining reasons, gratitude and apology
  • Understanding Japanese corporate culture: modesty, destiny
  • Reading newspapers
  • Kanji: simplified form, handwriting
  • Presentation in Japanese 2
  • Interview with Japanese working with foreigners
  • Pronunciation 5
  • Business telephone calls 5
  • Business e-mail correspondence 5
Module 6
  • Keigo: proposals, insistence, argument, invitation, claims
  • Kanji: Photocopier, Microsoft Office 2007
  • Presentation in Japanese 3
  • Interview with foreigners working with Japanese
  • Sentence endings
  • Adverbs
  • Pronunciation 6
  • Business telephone calls 6
  • Business e-mail correspondence 6

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