Hi everyone, is there any news about the second batch final results ??? I am still waiting mine, and there is no information from the Embassy personel in My country or the Universities that had 3 LOA from. This is so depresssssing ........... any advice or notes on this subject .......... I would be grateful and is there still a possibility to get rejected !!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Same here! I still haven't gotten news from my country's embassy about the placement results. I know it can get depressing, the more time passes, the more I worry that I'll fail even after passing the second screening! Stay strong, there are still lots of other people awaiting their results too.
Do we need CoE to apply for student VISA?
I've read the letter from embassy and all it says is just having to bring the letter to the embassy with passport to apply for student VISA in early March.
Hope to get some answer here, since the embassy in my country couldn't answer my question.
Same here! I still haven't gotten news from my country's embassy about the placement results. I know it can get depressing, the more time passes, the more I worry that I'll fail even after passing the second screening! Stay strong, there are still lots of other people awaiting their results too.
Thank you for your encouragement and support. I have contacted my first University choice and they told me that since I am going for April intake it is taking more time to process my application, and they advised me to be patient since the final result will due shortly. All the best to all good people waiting that are still waiting their results, and thank you all for your kindness and support
Hi! I am planing to send aplication for 2017 year..
There are a lot of people who made it so I would like to know some extra informations and your experiencies.
Congrats again to all of you who have received the placement result.
This is kind of repeated post but for those of you who are new to this, we have actually compiled a list of members going to Japan in 2016, where we are from and where we are going.
Results came here too Crossing my fingers everyone gets them soon!
Anyone have any idea when can we apply for extension of the research scholarship to a Master's?
With an arrival date of April 2016 (and language preparatory courses until October 2016) you can take the entrance exam at around October 2017, right? I want to enroll in a Master's afterwards, but feel kinda scared that the university might expect me to jump on a Master's as early as April 2017, lol. That would be too fast.
Results came here too Crossing my fingers everyone gets them soon!
Anyone have any idea when can we apply for extension of the research scholarship to a Master's?
With an arrival date of April 2016 (and language preparatory courses until October 2016) you can take the entrance exam at around October 2017, right? I want to enroll in a Master's afterwards, but feel kinda scared that the university might expect me to jump on a Master's as early as April 2017, lol. That would be too fast.
You're right, I dug around, so I found Osaka Uni/Graduate school of Economics has this:
"The rough outline of schedules:
The Entrance Examination in Summer
Date of Application: the mid July
Date of Examination: the late August and the early September
The Entrance Examination in Spring
Date of Application: the early December
Date of Examination: the late January"
In other words, it's bi-annually. so it'll work out. (If I understood correctly, that is). No way I'll do my research between October '16 (end of language courses) and winter '17.
Kinda offtopic, but I'm pretty sure I've seen you around on another discussion platform and we talked about Kyushu and whatnot
You're right, I dug around, so I found Osaka Uni/Graduate school of Economics has this:
"The rough outline of schedules:
The Entrance Examination in Summer
Date of Application: the mid July
Date of Examination: the late August and the early September
The Entrance Examination in Spring
Date of Application: the early December
Date of Examination: the late January"
In other words, it's bi-annually. so it'll work out. (If I understood correctly, that is). No way I'll do my research between October '16 (end of language courses) and winter '17.
Kinda offtopic, but I'm pretty sure I've seen you around on another discussion platform and we talked about Kyushu and whatnot
You got it! That's great. And April departure! You are lucky that your faculty has two application/exam periods per year ... my school and faculty only has one. This is complicated by my October departure, meaning I have only one try to get accepted. Oh well, another challenge for me
I see that you, like me, scour the net for any and all discussion of MEXT and grad school in JP! Good on your for providing help to others along the way.
Hi! I am planing to send aplication for 2017 year..
There are a lot of people who made it so I would like to know some extra informations and your experiencies.
I would suggest you start a new thread following this, and read all of our previous posts. Be patient and do a good research about this, and good luck.
Looking forward to it too!
Would you mind sharing some information about the Japanese language course at Titech? From your previous posts I believe you're currently doing it.
Hmm...let's just say that for the Japanese Language Intensive Course (at Tokodai), they take the word "intensive" very seriously!! I literally just graduated from the course yesterday, so let me share my experience (for your benefit).
Since I arrived for the October term, we started the language course on October 13 -- this is nice, since it gave me about two weeks to settle in, familiarize myself with my advisor and labmates, etc. Not to mention, there's a crazy amount of paperwork and orientations to take care of when you arrive. Overview
At Tokodai, the language course is separated into A and B levels. A Level starts from zero...learning hiragana/katana, eventually some basic kanji; grammar follows Minna no Nihongo (MnoN) v1 and most of v2. After completing the A Level course, students should be able to take the J3 level ("regular") language course, which means they can (usually) pass JLPT N4.
B Level races through all of MnoN-v1 in about 10 days, then starts v2 and covers the entire book in about 8 weeks (roughly 1 lesson every 2 days); next, grammar covers another book call "Lets go to Intermediate!"; also, a kanji workbook is used to cover about 300 kanji over the entire course. After completing the B Level course, students should be able to take the J4 level course, which means they can pass JLPT N3, but they say some students can pass N2 with more studying.
Also, both A and B classes do some extracurricular activities together, such as a day-trip to Kamakura and Enoshima (bus ticket is provided), and some interesting special lessons like calligraphy and tea ceremony . B-Level
I barely learned anything before coming to Japan -- I could read/write hiragana and katana almost fluently, and studied maybe 200-250 kanji. But my grammar was terrible (could barely even make te-form verbs, or construct compound sentences). So, to start, the course coordinator (Hirakawa-sensei, awesome guy) interviews everyone and determines their level. He told me to try B Level and see if I felt comfortable. It was really tough starting out, since we went so quickly through A-Level stuff and I hadn't really learned much of it, but I stuck with B-Level.
The midterm exam (written grammar exam with listening comprehension, a separate kanji exam, and a separate oral exam) is the turning point: the instructors will give you feedback and advise whether to stay in B or move to A. I passed and stayed in B (whew).
Once we passed the midterm, everything relaxed a little as we started the new book. We also had several other quizzes and exams periodically. There was homework every single day (toooons of homework). I probably spent about 2 hrs per day on homework (on top of 3 hrs of lecture and another 1-2 hrs of studying/memorization). I call them "lectures" but really it's a conversation-based class, with grammar instruction, self-study vocab, and conversation exercises. However, I highly recommend using as much Japanese with labmates and natives as possible (class isn't enough).
Additional assignments included a "field trip" interview with Japanese people around Tokyo, and a short speech about the Kamakura/Enoshima trip, and a poster presentation about our home country on the last day of class. These were all interesting and really forced us to apply what we learned.
The course ended with a closing ceremony and a small party with food and drinks (they were nice enough to provide all-halal meat, considering the Muslims in the class). TL;DR
I took the B-Level course. There was tons and tons of homework. Several exams and quizzes. All classes are conversation-based, covering grammar, vocab, and kanji. It's a lot of work, but there are fun activities and it's easy to make friends.
Hmm...let's just say that for the Japanese Language Intensive Course (at Tokodai), they take the word "intensive" very seriously!! I literally just graduated from the course yesterday, so let me share my experience (for your benefit).
Since I arrived for the October term, we started the language course on October 13 -- this is nice, since it gave me about two weeks to settle in, familiarize myself with my advisor and labmates, etc. Not to mention, there's a crazy amount of paperwork and orientations to take care of when you arrive. Overview
At Tokodai, the language course is separated into A and B levels. A Level starts from zero...learning hiragana/katana, eventually some basic kanji; grammar follows Minna no Nihongo (MnoN) v1 and most of v2. After completing the A Level course, students should be able to take the J3 level ("regular") language course, which means they can (usually) pass JLPT N4.
B Level races through all of MnoN-v1 in about 10 days, then starts v2 and covers the entire book in about 8 weeks (roughly 1 lesson every 2 days); next, grammar covers another book call "Lets go to Intermediate!"; also, a kanji workbook is used to cover about 300 kanji over the entire course. After completing the B Level course, students should be able to take the J4 level course, which means they can pass JLPT N3, but they say some students can pass N2 with more studying.
Also, both A and B classes do some extracurricular activities together, such as a day-trip to Kamakura and Enoshima (bus ticket is provided), and some interesting special lessons like calligraphy and tea ceremony. B-Level
I barely learned anything before coming to Japan -- I could read/write hiragana and katana almost fluently, and studied maybe 200-250 kanji. But my grammar was terrible (could barely even make te-form verbs, or construct compound sentences). So, to start, the course coordinator (Hirakawa-sensei, awesome guy) interviews everyone and determines their level. He told me to try B Level and see if I felt comfortable. It was really tough starting out, since we went so quickly through A-Level stuff and I hadn't really learned much of it, but I stuck with B-Level.
The midterm exam (written grammar exam with listening comprehension, a separate kanji exam, and a separate oral exam) is the turning point: the instructors will give you feedback and advise whether to stay in B or move to A. I passed and stayed in B (whew).
Once we passed the midterm, everything relaxed a little as we started the new book. We also had several other quizzes and exams periodically. There was homework every single day (toooons of homework). I probably spent about 2 hrs per day on homework (on top of 3 hrs of lecture and another 1-2 hrs of studying/memorization). I call them "lectures" but really it's a conversation-based class, with grammar instruction, self-study vocab, and conversation exercises. However, I highly recommend using as much Japanese with labmates and natives as possible (class isn't enough).
Additional assignments included a "field trip" interview with Japanese people around Tokyo, and a short speech about the Kamakura/Enoshima trip, and a poster presentation about our home country on the last day of class. These were all interesting and really forced us to apply what we learned.
The course ended with a closing ceremony and a small party with food and drinks (they were nice enough to provide all-halal meat, considering the Muslims in the class). TL;DR
I took the B-Level course. There was tons and tons of homework. Several exams and quizzes. All classes are conversation-based, covering grammar, vocab, and kanji. It's a lot of work, but there are fun activities and it's easy to make friends.
One thing that got my attention is the fact that you didn't mention the N1 JLPT level, this makes me wonder about my case, I have already passed JLPT N2 but still don't feel 100% confident to take on those academic books in Japanese, prepare some technical presentations in Japanese and all that. Do you know if there's a higher level Japanese course for those who are going for the JLPT N1? I guess it would depend on the university, right?
One thing that got my attention is the fact that you didn't mention the N1 JLPT level, this makes me wonder about my case, I have already passed JLPT N2 but still don't feel 100% confident to take on those academic books in Japanese, prepare some technical presentations in Japanese and all that. Do you know if there's a higher level Japanese course for those who are going for the JLPT N1? I guess it would depend on the university, right?
There is likely a class for even those who have attained JLPT1 - if the university you are going to has Japanese Language classes at all, they likely have this high level class. If not, they can definitely accommodate up to at least N1. Even the tiny University in Nagasaki I went to years ago had this - often times it is the 'bread and butter' of an otherwise small University with few majors/regular classes.
@AmerikaJin5 Great write-up. Very informative. What is your next move now that you are done your language classes? Entrance exam for a degree programme or research student for a while? Thanks for sticking around to help us all out!
Hmm...let's just say that for the Japanese Language Intensive Course (at Tokodai), they take the word "intensive" very seriously!! I literally just graduated from the course yesterday, so let me share my experience (for your benefit).
Since I arrived for the October term, we started the language course on October 13 -- this is nice, since it gave me about two weeks to settle in, familiarize myself with my advisor and labmates, etc. Not to mention, there's a crazy amount of paperwork and orientations to take care of when you arrive. Overview
At Tokodai, the language course is separated into A and B levels. A Level starts from zero...learning hiragana/katana, eventually some basic kanji; grammar follows Minna no Nihongo (MnoN) v1 and most of v2. After completing the A Level course, students should be able to take the J3 level ("regular") language course, which means they can (usually) pass JLPT N4.
B Level races through all of MnoN-v1 in about 10 days, then starts v2 and covers the entire book in about 8 weeks (roughly 1 lesson every 2 days); next, grammar covers another book call "Lets go to Intermediate!"; also, a kanji workbook is used to cover about 300 kanji over the entire course. After completing the B Level course, students should be able to take the J4 level course, which means they can pass JLPT N3, but they say some students can pass N2 with more studying.
Also, both A and B classes do some extracurricular activities together, such as a day-trip to Kamakura and Enoshima (bus ticket is provided), and some interesting special lessons like calligraphy and tea ceremony. B-Level
I barely learned anything before coming to Japan -- I could read/write hiragana and katana almost fluently, and studied maybe 200-250 kanji. But my grammar was terrible (could barely even make te-form verbs, or construct compound sentences). So, to start, the course coordinator (Hirakawa-sensei, awesome guy) interviews everyone and determines their level. He told me to try B Level and see if I felt comfortable. It was really tough starting out, since we went so quickly through A-Level stuff and I hadn't really learned much of it, but I stuck with B-Level.
The midterm exam (written grammar exam with listening comprehension, a separate kanji exam, and a separate oral exam) is the turning point: the instructors will give you feedback and advise whether to stay in B or move to A. I passed and stayed in B (whew).
Once we passed the midterm, everything relaxed a little as we started the new book. We also had several other quizzes and exams periodically. There was homework every single day (toooons of homework). I probably spent about 2 hrs per day on homework (on top of 3 hrs of lecture and another 1-2 hrs of studying/memorization). I call them "lectures" but really it's a conversation-based class, with grammar instruction, self-study vocab, and conversation exercises. However, I highly recommend using as much Japanese with labmates and natives as possible (class isn't enough).
Additional assignments included a "field trip" interview with Japanese people around Tokyo, and a short speech about the Kamakura/Enoshima trip, and a poster presentation about our home country on the last day of class. These were all interesting and really forced us to apply what we learned.
The course ended with a closing ceremony and a small party with food and drinks (they were nice enough to provide all-halal meat, considering the Muslims in the class). TL;DR
I took the B-Level course. There was tons and tons of homework. Several exams and quizzes. All classes are conversation-based, covering grammar, vocab, and kanji. It's a lot of work, but there are fun activities and it's easy to make friends.
In December the embassy of Japan had notified me that i will receive my final placement results sometime in January.. so it either be that, or early February. What about you? are you still waiting as well?
In December the embassy of Japan had notified me that i will receive my final placement results sometime in January.. so it either be that, or early February. What about you? are you still waiting as well?
Ya I am still waiting but the Embassy of Japan in my country told me to wait and they dont know about the final results or the second batch date of due !!!!!! I hope the second batch results will be announced soon. Dont you find this frostrating on may ways? and have any of your mates in greece got any Results or were in the first batch ?
Ya I am still waiting but the Embassy of Japan in my country told me to wait and they dont know about the final results or the second batch date of due !!!!!! I hope the second batch results will be announced soon. Dont you find this frostrating on may ways? and have any of your mates in greece got any Results or were in the first batch ?
Here in the Philippines, the embassy also doesn't know when they will receive the results. I think it's because they're just waiting on MEXT to send the results to them. But the embassy said it will likely be at the end of January, so it should be any day now or next week.
Here in the Philippines, the embassy also doesn't know when they will receive the results. I think it's because they're just waiting on MEXT to send the results to them. But the embassy said it will likely be at the end of January, so it should be any day now or next week.
Today I got the good news from the Embassy of Japan in My country Jordan, I have been accepted into Hokkaido University my 1st choice. I thank god and the great people in this forum that supported me and hope you all get accepted and get the good news soon because you all are very kind and good at heart.
Today I got the good news from the Embassy of Japan in My country Jordan, I have been accepted into Hokkaido University my 1st choice. I thank god and the great people in this forum that supported me and hope you all get accepted and get the good news soon because you all are very kind and good at heart.
Hi Guys,
I just wanted to let you know I was contacted from Nagoya University about dormitory and rooms, so it seems I am going to Nagoyaaaaa Yay, Nagoya was also my first choice, I will be studying Law there (Comparative law - Intellectual property)
Now waiting for Embassy
Good luck for everyone else
Today I got the good news from the Embassy of Japan in My country Jordan, I have been accepted into Hokkaido University my 1st choice. I thank god and the great people in this forum that supported me and hope you all get accepted and get the good news soon because you all are very kind and good at heart.
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Crossing my fingers everyone gets them soon!
