You are surrounded by Japanese and you can practice it every day
and in some situations, speaking Japanese in necessary in daily life so it is really challenging. Like you really want to progress fast.
There are roughly three levels of classes: beginner, intermediate and advanced.
The beginner level is also divided into 3 or 4 levels.
After checking the Japanese level of each student, we place our students in the appropriate levels.
Our school is a traditional Japanese language school established in 1984.
The size of the school is not too big, not too small - it's a homey environment.
Generally, there are no more than 12 people in the class, all of us has a little bit of time to say what they haven't understood
to ask the teacher to explain again one point or one phrase.
There are like students from every part of the world. In my class there are French students, Chinese students, there's a guy from Chile, Italians
We do have different types of classes, we do Kanji tests, we study grammar points, we do speaking a lot and we do reading.
My favourite type of class is reading, it works very well for me that we get to practice reading here.
As for the flow from the beginning to the end of the class - there is a "10 minute Test" at the beginning.
The 10-minute test consists of, a Kanji test, writing sentences using Japanese expressions and writing five katakana characters for beginners.
We make sure students remembers the kanji that they learnt the day before with this 10-minute test.
So, it's called the "10-minute test", but it's not really a test that you have to study for,
it's an occasion where both teachers and students check how much students remember what they've learned.
The school area is really convenient, I think you can arrive here literally from everywhere
so when you look for rent for a place to stay it's not necessary to stay really really close to the school because
there is really really good connection with the train system here.
Iidabashi is really really a focus point, next to the area there are a lot of konbini (convenience stores) and supermarket.
The school is located about 3 minute walk from Iidabashi station and you can reach Kagurazaka, a busy street if you walk a bit.
You can get to the areas like Shinjuku, Shibuya, Ikebukuro within 20 minutes by train.
The school helped me in every sort of way possible since the day I arrived here, they helped me set up a bank account
like they physically went with me to the bank, so it was really helpful
and then again they helped me find a part-time job. They sent me an email with a job opportunity.
They helped me schedule the interview and I landed the job basically through the school.
We strive to have fun with everyone in the classes.
However, it's meaningless if it's just having fun, so we base our classes on each student's purpose and
all the teachers help them learn Japanese.
Please come to ALA to learn Japanese.
You can also learn about various cultures from students from all over the world. Let's have fun learning Japanese.