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The Richmond Japanese School is a Japanese supplementary school supported by the Japanese Government. We provide Japanese and Mathematics education to K-9th grade children all in Japanese, in accordance with the government-standardized curriculum and textbook. All our children are required to learn, speak, and write in Japanese during the school hours. We are not a language learning school.
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This school was established in 1988. It is organized by the parents of the students and has been providing several courses:
These courses provide an opportunity to develop Japanese language skill for the children who speak Japanese as their first language or in their everyday lives.
These courses provide an opportunity to study the "National Language" (Japanese) and Arithmetic/Mathematics based on the Japanese curriculum guidelines for children who speak Japanese as their first langauge or in their everyday lives.
These courses provide an opportunity to learn Japanese as a second language and Japanese tradition and culture for children who are non-native speakers. We normally conduct 3 courses:
This course is primarily focused on basic conversation in Japanese, including greetings, counting, and Japanese grammar. Students are encouraged to read and write Hiragana characters. The class will be conducted in both Japanese and English depending on the student's needs.
This course is primarily focused on basic conversation in Japanese, including greetings, counting, and Japanese grammar. Students are encouraged to read and write Hiragana and Katakana characters, and Kanji characters at the very basic level. The class will be conducted in both Japanese and English depending on the student's needs.
This course is designed for students to be able to converse with greater ease and to write short sentences about their daily life in Japanese with sentence structures, grammar, Kanji characters at the student's grade level. The class is generally conducted mainly in Japanese.
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