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a very exciting thing, indeed! i start tomorrow, actually. i hope i’m not too dumb!!!
it’s a summer program, and i’m staying in the dorms (since i’m like ~300 miles away from home), and there’s a lot of other people doing other classes too! i’ve already met one other person doing the same intensive japanese course i am. i think most of the class is actually college students, though!
after writing this i realize i used an exclamation point after every sentence. it just feels like there’s no emotions involved when they’re not used….(!)That sounds great, I wish I could take something like that but I’m already really grateful and lucky to have my Japanese tutor who helps me immensely. Good luck, work hard!
I took Japanese 101 at my uni. and found great benefit from it. If it was like mine, having a foundation from self-study will benefit you greatly, since some teachers in language courses have a tendency to move fairly quickly through the material. I knew kana before ever entering the classroom and, since most quizzes involved writing those characters, I felt a bit like a cheat (not really ;P). There was certainly vocabulary building. Many grammar concepts became more clarified than anything I could have understood on a book and computer screen, or at least quickened the process of comprehension considerably. In a stupid twist of happenstance graduating actually prevented me from taking JP 102 directly after, and to this day I’m still planning on taking the course in the future.
Anyway have fun and hope you enjoy the course. :)
AnonymousYou are SOO lucky!! I’ve always wanted to take a Japanese course in college! Good luck! :D
I took 102, 201 and 202 basically at my university as an elective. The classes were fine and all but the best part was that I had some natives to talk to regularly and people to practice speaking with in real life. Hard to find people for that ._.
P.s. that I’m Im really competitive. I made friends with the best students in the class and then try and crush them :D
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Chigun, i agree! i had my first class today and all of it i already knew (besides like the names for specific subjects). I think it will help a whoooole bunch that i’ve already self-studied for awhile.
Tsetycoon, thank you! i do feel lucky that i have this opportunity =^.^=
Sheepy, yeah hahaha… the worst thing is not being able to practice it like, for real. so i’m happy that i can talk with a native (but it so happens that the only native Japanese speaker in the class is Katagiri-sensei herself, but it is still worlds better than totally alone)
BUT I DON’T KNOW HOW TO PEOPLE how does one socialize ;-;
also i’m kind of worried it will all eventually (soon) like be waaay above my brainpower, cos it’s pretty much a ~10 week course condensed into 3 weeksI’d love to do a Japanese College/University course one day. For now, I’m happy just self learning.
WASWWAWWW she’s so cute guys ;-;
we were going over katakana today, cos we did hiragana yesterday (it’s 101) and she was like, i like mu. it looks like an old man nose. and then she started drawing a face around it.
but also she made me realize that to more easily differentiate between shi & tsu, and so & n, if you think about the hiragana, shi’s curve moves up and tsu’s moves down, and the sameish thing with so & n.Yeah generally you’ll find first courses 101/1a etc to be mostly kana based with basics. In regards to the teacher though I can totally see that, I’ve had maybe 3-4 Japanese teachers so far and almost all of them were cute or eccentric and really funny lol
In my experience, the Japanese people who decide to permanently leave Japan are kind of oddballs, which is awesome.
My Japanese tutor is really cute and funny. She’s always so happy and bubbly – it brightens up my day. My Mum thinks that she’s hilarious and adores her.
Hashi seems to be spot on.
Hashi:
In my experience, the Japanese people who decide to permanently leave Japan are kind of oddballs, which is awesome.I fully agree with that. Can’t see why any Japanese person would want to leave Japan permanently or want to renounce their citizenship.
hahaha yeah she’s DEFINITELY different. it’s great. i’m reaaaalllllly happy that this isn’t going to be a boring class =^.^=
kanjiman8: I fully agree with that. Can’t see why any Japanese person would want to leave Japan permanently or want to renounce their citizenship.
Japan does not allow you to hold dual citizenship with another country. If a Japanese person lives and works in another country and maybe married and had children with a citizen of that country, it makes perfect sense for them to want to have citizenship there which, unfortunately, means they have to give up their Japanese citizenship.
Hashi:
In my experience, the Japanese people who decide to permanently leave Japan are kind of oddballs, which is awesome.I can vouch for this statement. The owner of the restaurant I frequent is indeed quite the oddball, and he’s also awesome. He always jokes around with all the customers, especially his regulars. The rest of the staff (also native Japanese) are not too far behind him in that regard either!
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