Japanese Lessons in Perth

With 128 million native speakers around the globe, it’s no surprise that Japanese is a useful language to know for business, travel, and pleasure. Japan is a trendsetter when it comes to pop culture and its influences can be found through the spread of Japanese music, anime, and films around the world. Less than 5% of the Japanese population speak high-level English and over one million live outside of Japan, making Japanese a necessary communication tool both at home and while traveling abroad.

In 2016, Population Australia showed that over a quarter of Australians were born overseas. And in Perth, the fourth-largest city in the country, 30% of its 2-million-strong population are immigrants. Foreign-born concentrations, especially Indians and Malaysians, are growing in the suburbs, while more Asians, including the Chinese, are moving into the city. In fact, Perth now rivals Melbourne and other multicultural Australian cities for its ethnic diversity. Just take a stroll around the city and you will go through Chinatown, Greektown, Little Portugal and a huge Punjabi market.  And while English is the de facto language spoken by over 70% of the city’s population, 20 different languages are spoken natively throughout the city (the most common ones being Mandarin, Arabic, Cantonese, Vietnamese, Italian, Korean and Japanese). Many of these people are privileged to be able to make the most of both their native culture and their adopted Australian one. Expand your own knowledge, experiences and opportunities, too, and start learning a foreign language today to connect with one (or more) of these communities.