How to Speak Japanese Cross-culturally (All Levels)

🌟 Course Headline: Learn how to speak to Japanese hearts - how to sound reliable - how to become their indispensable partner (all levels)

🚀 Introduction: Let me ask you an important question. Are you perhaps feeling distant from your Japanese acquaintances? Are you unsure whether your Japanese counterparts are speaking their true minds to you? Have you ever had the impression that your business abilities might not be coming across in the best light due to your limited knowledge of Japanese?

If this sounds familiar, you are in the right hands! 🙌

🧑‍🏫 Course Description: This course is tailored for anyone who has been feeling like a foreigner in Japan, regardless of your current language proficiency. If you want to strike an emotional connection with Japanese colleagues or customers, this course will be a unique chance for you to reach your objectives.

We believe that it's always better to be on the polite side in cross-cultural interactions, but this does not mean that you can't be authentic or that you have to resign to being unable to show your true value. 🤝

✨ What You'll Learn: This course is not about teaching you another set of situational phrases. It teaches you "what's missing" in most language courses: how to communicate at a deeper level, pushing levers that are normally out of reach for foreigners. The effect? Japanese interlocutors will feel at ease with you, and you'll persuade them to trust you and make you an indispensable colleague or partner. 🤝

You'll get glimpses into the elusive dimension that language courses cannot show you: evoking this deeper cultural level is key in persuading your counterparts to trust you. All this with simple "connecting" phrases that anyone, whatever their language proficiency, can use every day, both in face-to-face interactions and in written correspondence.

🔑 Instructor Credentials: Secret 1: This course is inspired by real-world experience. The instructor, Takashi Kawatanic, has facilitated cross-cultural training for over 20,000 Japanese management executives and their foreign counterparts over 30 years across 20 countries! 🌍

Secret 2: The course pays special attention to the context in which phrases are used. Even if you don't get it perfectly right, your efforts to familiarize yourself with local work styles will impress your listeners. 🎯

Secret 3: You'll encounter key phrases paired with graphics that illustrate important philosophical concepts behind Japanese business behaviors. This knowledge will become an invaluable asset in your cross-cultural toolkit, providing insight into the cultural levers you are pushing. 🧠

🚀 Course Outcomes: By the end of this course, you will:

1. Understand the Five Golden Rules for connecting with the Japanese.
2. Learn select connecting phrases and the right context for them.
3. Acquire Japanese communication skills and cross-cultural knowledge that will be invaluable in your business interactions.
4. Know how to become an indispensable partner of Japanese people.

The Japanese, in their hearts, are eager for you to step forward and help them drop their polite mask to connect. I want to help you become such a person --- by Speaking Japanese Cross-culturally! 🤝

👀 Course Differences: If your previous experiences with learning Japanese from books or language schools have led you to find my phrases unfamiliar, congratulations! You are learning the real business Japanese for the first time! Just memorize and use them in real interaction, and then you will see the smiling faces of your Japanese partners. 😃

🎓 Final Note: This is a new course, so I would very much appreciate your comments and feedback in the reviews. Your insights will help us improve and ensure that this course meets your needs and expectations. Thank you in advance for your support! 🙏

See you inside the video, and let's embark on this journey to Speaking Japanese Cross-culturally together!