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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tiger" data-source="post: 25218" data-attributes="member: 79704">I know people will probably moan at me for pointing this out, but I'm trying to instill a sense of reality in your mind.  Do you really feel it is realistic to talk (rather flippantly) about becoming fluent in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese, the latter two being amongst the most difficult mainstream languages in the world?  This alone would make you a world-class linguist and would require many many years of intensive study.  To try and combine this with a career in clinical psychology is a target which even the most gifted would find difficult to reach.I'm guessing that you're still quite young, and to have ambitions and dreams is no bad thing, but perhaps this is setting your aim a little too high.Have you visited Japan?  How do you know that you would love working here?  Perhaps it would be a good idea to take a study break before you go to college to travel and spend some time in Japan to see if it's really for you.I wish you luck with your plan, and I like your positive attitude.  I hope that one day you prove me wrong.Tiger</blockquote>