Hello everyone!
I am currently in the process of selection for the monbukagakusho scholarship. I believe i have a good chance to be selected here in my home country, and so my worries are about the admission exam at the university.
I applied for a masters degree and i know that students have to take entrance exams once in Japan, if they want to take a graduate course.
I have a decent level of Japanese, and i can read academic articles or Books with the help of the dictionary every now and then, also i can write, slowly than normal, academic-like essays (i presented my research plan, as well as abstracts of two works i wrote, translated to japanese).
The big problem is that my study of Japanese have been centred on reading, and the truth is that i find myself unable to write by hand, in Japanese, exactly the same stuff i write in the computer; I just cant remember how to write a great deal of kanji i know, although i can recognize them easily and although, with just one look, i can write them without looking again, at least the ones i already learned.
So, my concern is to know what kind of exams international students have to take in order to be admitted in a masters course. Japanese exams, like JLPT or the ones we take at the embassy, are no problem, but i wonder if there are other exams in which we have to answer to more specific questions, related to our areas of study, through handwriting in Japanese.
I believe i could do it using a computer (which i know it's impossible..) but writing by hand... at the present time i could not do it....
If anyone could share their experiences, i would appreciate a lot.
Thank you!!
I am currently in the process of selection for the monbukagakusho scholarship. I believe i have a good chance to be selected here in my home country, and so my worries are about the admission exam at the university.
I applied for a masters degree and i know that students have to take entrance exams once in Japan, if they want to take a graduate course.
I have a decent level of Japanese, and i can read academic articles or Books with the help of the dictionary every now and then, also i can write, slowly than normal, academic-like essays (i presented my research plan, as well as abstracts of two works i wrote, translated to japanese).
The big problem is that my study of Japanese have been centred on reading, and the truth is that i find myself unable to write by hand, in Japanese, exactly the same stuff i write in the computer; I just cant remember how to write a great deal of kanji i know, although i can recognize them easily and although, with just one look, i can write them without looking again, at least the ones i already learned.
So, my concern is to know what kind of exams international students have to take in order to be admitted in a masters course. Japanese exams, like JLPT or the ones we take at the embassy, are no problem, but i wonder if there are other exams in which we have to answer to more specific questions, related to our areas of study, through handwriting in Japanese.
I believe i could do it using a computer (which i know it's impossible..) but writing by hand... at the present time i could not do it....
If anyone could share their experiences, i would appreciate a lot.
Thank you!!
