best place to learn japanese in london?

MysticLight · (#1 (**permalink**))

based on cost and quality.

Thanks in advance for your help =],

Mystic Light

dougbrowne · (#2 (**permalink**))

In London? Your own home. That is unless you want to get a private tutor, but otherwise, group classes will get you nowhere.

Some useful resources for home/self study..

Grammar -Tae Kim's Japanese guide to Japanese grammar

Kanji - Heisig's Book Remembering the kanji, flashcards, reviewing the kanji, iKanji Touch (for iTouch or iPhone)

Dictionary: Denshi Jisho - Online Japanese dictionary

Vocab - Flashcards, maybe smart.fm - The place you go to learn.

Other possibly useful resources (in no particular order).. Lang8.. AJATT (All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. )... Google Japan Google

Etc...

KyleGoetz · (#3 (**permalink**))

Private tutor is the way to go for study. You can't learn a language without speaking it (unless your goal is only to be able to read, but not actually use, the language).

But surely there's got to be some Japanese community in London. There is one in Austin, TX (where I live), and it's only 600K people and only one internationally-known university. London has much more, doesn't it? UCL, QM, LSE, Royal Academy of Music? There's got to be some sort of Japanese community you could join for festivities and such, make some friends, etc. That's something I've done in Austin since I moved back from Japan.