Our Japanese courses

Looking for a Japanese course? Every Linguaphone pathway is built around your real priorities, from beginner to advanced level, progressing in your professional activity, reactivating school knowledge or gaining spoken fluency. Your trainer shapes content and pace around what you tell us. Available by video or in-person at our centres in Paris Bourse, Mulhouse or Dijon.

On the ground, professional Japanese doesn't look the same from one role to the next. A manager in a French subsidiary of a Japanese group (Toyota, Sony, Suntory, the Japanese arm of Renault-Nissan) isn't trying to learn more words; they need to master the levels of politeness that structure all professional communication in Japan (sonkeigo, kenjōgo, teineigo) and to read the subtlety of silences in meetings. A buyer dealing with Japanese suppliers (automotive, precision electronics, robotics) sharpens contractual framing and negotiation. An R&D engineer collaborating with Japanese partners on robotics, batteries or precision chemistry refines written technical rigour and conference-floor delivery. A professional in luxury or fashion serving Japanese clients, the world's leading per-capita luxury buyers, works on warmth of welcome, lexical precision and respect for service codes. A professional in video games, animation or publishing dealing with Japanese editors (Nintendo, Square Enix, Kodansha) masters trade vocabulary and the reading of licensing contracts. An HR team briefing an employee posted to Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto or Nagoya works on intercultural nuance and reading the professional codes specific to Japan. All of these profiles sit inside our pathways, because every programme is calibrated on the learner's real working life, never on a generic textbook. It is also why our dominant format with mid-cap groups and large accounts active in the Japanese market is in-company training: a week-after-week demand for relevance on the ground.