Japanese at SOAS Language Centre

SOAS Language Centre in central London provides language tuition in Japanese at Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced levels for University of London students and for the general public. We cater for the language learning needs of individuals, companies, private and public organisations and government departments. Study Japanese with us in on weekday evenings, Saturday daytimes or join our full-time year-round Japanese course and gain a widely recognised SOAS, University of London Certificate or Diploma.

Certificates and Diploma Programmes

•  Certificate/Diploma in Communicative Japanese (Online Full-Time) cancelled for 2021-2022

Short Courses for 2021-2022

10 weeks, 1 class per week

• Beginners
• Elementary
• Pre-Intermediate
• Intermediate
• Upper Intermediate
• Pre-Advanced
• Advanced
• Proficiency

10 weeks, 2 classes per week

• Accelerated Stage 1

Japanese Language Proficiency Test

• The Proficiency Test

Tailored Tuition

We can also provide individually tailored courses and executive language training. 

Awards & Activities

• The Hagio Prize
• The Japanese Speech Contest

Student Projects

• See our pages of project work carried out by students of our Japanese language courses.