PLANS & PRICING

You can cancel your complimentary enrollment anytime before your 31st day in the course from your Chargebee account settings page. Even after you cancel, you’ll maintain full access to everything provided to you up to that time, and for as long as you wish. You also get to keep all the downloads provided to you during the complimentary enrollment as well.

Should you want to join the full course at a later date, simply sign up again, and email us at: maplopo@maplopo.com so we can advance you to where you left off your first time through.

Because we offer extensive opportunities to test out the course (the complete 30-day trial, videos from the entire first section on YouTube and the Maplopo Schoolhouse podcast) there are no refunds offered once you enroll past day 31 in any given Maplopo Schoolhouse season. If you’re not yet sure of whether or not Maplopo Schoolhouse is right for you, please check out these materials first.

If you are on an installment plan and can no longer make payments, we will pause your account so you can pick up where you left off when you can once again make regular payments.

All prices are listed in U.S. dollars. The conversion to your currency happens as a natural part of the transaction once you enroll.

Students who complete a Season are provided a discount on additional seasons, and we have a 30-day trial period where you get access to the first 30 days of the course. Outside these offerings there are no additional discounts or trials.

We accept: American Express, China UnionPay (CUP), Discover & Diners, Japan Credit Bureau (JCB), Mastercard and Visa.

Yes.

1. If you sign up for the one time payment plan, you will be automatically charged $350 on the 31st day of your enrollment.

2. If you sign up for our three-part installment plan, you’ll be be automatically charged $128 for three consecutive months beginning on the 31st day of your enrollment.

3. If you sign up for our 12-month installment plan, you’ll be be automatically charged $35 for 12 consecutive months beginning on the 31st day of your enrollment.

If you cancel prior to the 31st day of your free trial there are no automatic charges.

Once you have progressed passed the 31st day, you are unable to cancel.

First, Maplopo Schoolhouse is for readers. We attract students who love to read all sorts of material, from manga and magazines, to poetry, literature, and contemporary fiction, and non-fiction. At the core of what we do is help students learn the language through story. So… story lovers is our biggest audience.

When it comes to the specificics of language, we find Maplopo Schoolhouse works best for intermediate and advanced learners of Japanese. Those students of the language who have a basic grasp of grammar, but need and want more—and in that same set of students—those who recognize they want structure that helps them understand the language in a fashion they cannot find in a classroom.

Some of our students enjoy taking the JLPT and have already passed the N3 or N2, but many more students have never taken the exam and are studying Japanese with different personal and professional goals in mind.

A good number of our students are translators (or aspiring translators) of Japanese, and enroll largely because they want to learn more about the art and craft of translating. Those students want to tap into one of the most unique parts of Maplopo Schoolhouse… us as translators.

Many more enroll in Maplopo Schoolhouse to refresh or build upon a near fluency they feel could use improvement. Such students often live and work in Japan, and have been here for many years. Or, they lived in Japan at one time, but now live elsewhere and don’t want to lose what they worked so hard to acquire. They find communicating at work and around town fairly routine, but often just that. These students come to us to learn more deeply what the language is about… the nuance of grammar expressions they may only know on the surface, and to add depth and breadth to their vocabulary.

Maplopo Schoolhouse students also come to us from around the world, in all age groups and with many different personal interests and drivers. We’ve welcomed students from America, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Singapore, Taiwan, Russia… from where do you hail?!

No. Each Season of Maplopo Schoolhouse runs just as if you were in an in-person classroom. We designed the course this way to keep students progressing at natural intervals, and so the material you learn is absorbed as richly as possible. Learning modules are dripped out every two to three days until the season is complete.

If you can read in English, and understand spoken American English, you should be in good shape. Our videos and worksheet materials do have spoken and written Japanese, but the entire course is taught in English. Each of our videos is also manually subtitled in English.

We have non-native English speakers from India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Russia, and Singapore in Maplopo Schoolhouse who are performing just as well as any other student in the program. The trick is having a good grasp of English.

There are no deadlines whatsoever within the course. You have “forever-access” to it, and all the time in the world to complete it. Once you enroll, the course is dripped out to you steadily every two or three days. We’ve designed the course with a host of pedagogical practices in mind, and we move you forward in a way that helps you feel excited about your progress so you complete the course in a reasonable amount of time, and so your learning sticks. But, life does get in the way of progress sometimes, and because of that, your access to the course is yours. Hang with us and the Japanese language as you see fit!

If questions pop up, we are in the private Discord server to help you, and other students are there as well with any questions you may have. We also do regular “office hours” sessions throughout the course where you can lob at us any sort of questions you might have. Of course, we’re always reachable via email as well. Nowhere else will you find this sort of opportunity to engage with Japanese literature translators and language teachers at this sort of price point. Nowhere. 

Life happens. We get it. If you pass the 30-day trial period, and have made your first or second payment, but need to pause your account so you’re not billed beyond that point, just reach to us via email at: maplopo@maplopo.com and we will pause your account for you.

And while you’ll, understandably, lose access to Maplopo Schoolhouse at that time, we will restore your access immediately upon moving forward with your next (or final) installment payment.