Konnichiwa from Go! Go! Nihon! Today, we are going to introduce you to-
-KAI Japanese Language School, located in Shin-Okubo, Tokyo.
Let's go inside and take a look at what makes this school so special.
We're going to learn a lot of new words from now on!
What is the verb for this? You take the shoes and...
...put them on. That's right! "You put on your shoes".
Mostly I like that the teachers are extremely friendly. A lot of their school material is made by themselves.
So it makes it easier to study with their own material. And they explain it very good.
It's not just the teachers, the staff - they're wonderful.
They understand you, they really help you a lot, and they care for you!
We think that communication is very important. We have a Facebook private group.
The staff, the teachers, and only KAI students can join.
And we use that to make some announcements, a kind of internal announcements.
An italian friend of mine moved to Japan and studied Japanese at KAI.
He became very good at it, so he recommended the school to me.
We let the students bring news taken from their home country,-
-and then we discuss about that during class.
Sometimes we get requests regarding the lessons from the students,-
-and we always do our best to answer to those requests, making it like the students want.
That's right, we think it's important to work together with the students to improve on things.
So we often come up with things together and say, "Okay, let's try this!"
A class is typically 10 students, which I think is really good.
So, it's not really crowded and everyone has a chance to speak and a chance to participate.
Our class is really international. We have students from all over the world.
For example, we have people from Spain, from Italy, from Sweden...
...but not only Europe, but China and Korea, too.
I think it's very enriching that students are able to hear each other's opinions.
It breaks the limits of discussion and it allows students to freely express their thoughts and questions.
We also think the school environment is very important.
For example, instead of painting the school walls in a hospital white fashion,-
-we use a lot of color. So students get stimulated from the study environment.
Shin-Okubo is an interesting place. I mean...
It's convenient. It's close to Shinjuku, which is the big city. You can pretty much walk to Shinjuku.
They call it the "Koreatown", so I mean, you come to Japan-
-but you also get to experience Korean food and Korean culture.
For me, I really like K-Pop and Korean culture as well, so when I came here and found out that-
-the school is actually in Koreatown, I was very happy about that.
K-Pop, here it comes! Ta-da! "2 AM"!
I saw them live. I really like it here.