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Japanese

Anchored to Tokyo
6 levels ยท 170 lessons published
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ใ™ใฟใพใ›ใ‚“ โ€” First Words at a Tokyo Counter

A standing soba counter near Shinjuku station. 7:30am. Salary workers eating in 8 minutes and leaving. You walk up. You say one word first: sumimasen. Everything begins there.

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The course

170 lessons across six levels. Level 1 is free forever, the whole of it; Savor+ opens the rest. Within a level, start anywhere.

Level 1

Basic

A125 lessons

Your first words: greeting someone, asking what things cost, finding the street you want, and enough food vocabulary to order without pointing.

Level 2

Conversational

A245 lessons

The past tense, and opinions. You start saying what happened and what you made of it โ€” comparing two dishes, describing a wine, disagreeing without being rude.

Level 3

Intermediate

B125 lessons

Where the grammar turns real: the imperfect, the subjunctive, relative pronouns and the conditional. Enough machinery to tell a story properly and write your first review.

Level 4

Advanced

B225 lessons

Nuance and the professional register. Discourse markers, the art of concession and emphasis, the business lunch and the gala โ€” and the literary tenses underneath them.

Level 5

Fluent

C125 lessons

Writing and argument. Food journalism, criticism, the memoir and the keynote, in the literary registers those are actually written in.

Level 6

Native

C225 lessons

Your own voice. Literary exegesis, scholarly prose, diplomatic protocol and the philosophical essay, ending on a synthesis that is yours.