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先輩
- 13 Oct 2003
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I never said it was easy though! There is a way, but it'll cost you money and perhaps your sanity
- About
This is arguably the most intensive course offered anywhere in the world, the Japanese course consists of 9 hours of Japanese a day for a summer or up to a whole year.
Everyone I know who has done the year course is literally fluent. Not situational fluent or textbook fluent, I mean actually fluent. Although when you think about it, it's easy to see why..In a year they will have completed 2200 hours of Japanese study under professional native Japanese teachers.
It's geared toward college students, but is open to high school students. Though I think the cut off age is 17, as the dorm system cannot allow people younger than 17 living in the dorms.
To join you need to fill out an application, that among the usual things asks how much do you study Japanese, where have you studied it, what books have you covered, etc. You also need to write an essay on "Your career goals and how they relate to Japan". I believe this is the part that they mainly judge you on. I highly doubt they'd accept someone that put anime or manga as a reason, but would favor someone who said they wished to become a defense lawyer for foreigners in Japan, or a business man, teacher, etc. Also the number 1 thing they look for is motivation, and I see the highest of motivated students having trouble on something like the year course.
Personally for my essay I wrote what I wrote in the "Why are you learning Japanese?" post on this forum, and i've been accepted into the summer Japanese program. I kind of wanted to go to Japan this summer, but I figured why should I go to Japan if my language skills are still crap?
These programs are also very expensive, the summer one is going to cost me $6,000 not including room and board. The academic year course costs around $27,000, the same as tuition to Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
So basically I posted this for anyone who really wants to learn Japanese, at any means necessary in the shortest amount of time. A year is a very short amount of time, especially to learn Japanese.
If anyone has questions or such I'll be happy to answer them.
- About
This is arguably the most intensive course offered anywhere in the world, the Japanese course consists of 9 hours of Japanese a day for a summer or up to a whole year.
Everyone I know who has done the year course is literally fluent. Not situational fluent or textbook fluent, I mean actually fluent. Although when you think about it, it's easy to see why..In a year they will have completed 2200 hours of Japanese study under professional native Japanese teachers.
It's geared toward college students, but is open to high school students. Though I think the cut off age is 17, as the dorm system cannot allow people younger than 17 living in the dorms.
To join you need to fill out an application, that among the usual things asks how much do you study Japanese, where have you studied it, what books have you covered, etc. You also need to write an essay on "Your career goals and how they relate to Japan". I believe this is the part that they mainly judge you on. I highly doubt they'd accept someone that put anime or manga as a reason, but would favor someone who said they wished to become a defense lawyer for foreigners in Japan, or a business man, teacher, etc. Also the number 1 thing they look for is motivation, and I see the highest of motivated students having trouble on something like the year course.
Personally for my essay I wrote what I wrote in the "Why are you learning Japanese?" post on this forum, and i've been accepted into the summer Japanese program. I kind of wanted to go to Japan this summer, but I figured why should I go to Japan if my language skills are still crap?
These programs are also very expensive, the summer one is going to cost me $6,000 not including room and board. The academic year course costs around $27,000, the same as tuition to Cornell's College of Arts and Sciences.
So basically I posted this for anyone who really wants to learn Japanese, at any means necessary in the shortest amount of time. A year is a very short amount of time, especially to learn Japanese.
If anyone has questions or such I'll be happy to answer them.