Japanese language school - 日本語学校の辛い経験 | Tokyo
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(字幕あり) What is it like going to a Japanese language school to learn Japanese. Is it good? Is it bad? For me it just wasn't something that fit. You have to ask yourself why you want to learn Japanese. I want to learn full Japanese because I live in Japan. I don't want to take any tests, I am not interested in the JLPT. So I wasn't meant for a Japanese language school. COST: They range, starting at about $4000 for 6 months. You get a student visa for 6 months at a time, it can be renewed up to 2 years at a language school. After that you have to go on to university if you still want to stay on a student visa. If you don't attend school or are late, your visa will be removed. In order to attend a language school, you must prove you have enough money to support yourself. It means your parents have to show they have between 10,000-20,000$ just sitting in the bank ready to take care of you. THE PROBLEMS I HAD Mistakes in the books. My ex boyfriend and friends noticed many mistakes, as well as I noticed many mistakes in the text books. They also focused on teaching us unnatural sentences and situations we would never come accross in real life. Students would make example sentences that were ok grammar wise, but strange in a normal Japanese situation and only half the teachers would correct them. Kanji learning flaws. Since it was geared towards passing the JLPT, there was no order or structure or in depth focus on learning proper kanji. We were given 6 random kanji a day, told to write it 4 times. Had to remember how to read 20 words and that was it. We didn't learn how to properly use these vocabulary in real life and most people didn't even remember the words we learned. Just remembering patterns so we were able to take and pass the test. We would learn grammar patterns but not really understand how to use them in real life, but really remembering the sounds and patterns and rules. If we see this letter, it must mean that this pattern comes next. Remembering this will make you remember it to pass the test, even if you don't understand the information on the test. All reading word we did was very slow. The teacher spoke slow even in the higher levels. The listening tapes were also very slow and robotic voices. The situations on the questions we had to answer also were very flawed. There was often times where there is more than one answer that is correct on the test, or no answer is correct. The answers that we were expected to given in class were very unnatural. We never ommited the subject of a sentence which is almost always done in Japanese unless needed to specify. This is ok to do in English, but in Japanese it often changes the meaning of the sentence. In Japanese adding information can make it sound so unnatural and strange or change the meaning all together. One thing that pissed my friends off the most is they taught us yaru, which long ago, used to mean the same as ageru. They taught us that children, pets or people lower than you, you should use yaru instead of ageru. This is rude and dirty language in todays Japanese. It would only be acceptable to say such a thing perhapse when you are talking about a plant. If you said this for someones pet, they might feel so disturbed that you used such word. And for sure if you used this for someones kid. It is almost like talking down to someone and it is not used at all. Just imagine calling a women in todays America, not a person, it would be unacceptable. The teachers went on to teach us this without saying anything, till I raised my voice and told them it is wrong. There are also a lot of unused grammar points they teach us that are too old for people to know, or grammar points only used in old movies or poems, but the teachers often don't make it VERY aware that its not used. There are vocabulary that was on my list of words to know, that not my young friends, their parents or my 60 year old friends even knew. Slang is ofcourse not taught, but not only this but words used in todays society was taught that it is WRONG. Even though it is not. Such as ranukikotoba. korareru vs koreru. Both you should know, and both are ok to use, even in buisness situations says multiple sourses. I also found it funny that even the teachers off duty themselves used these words. These are not new slang, but have been around even in the 70s. They are written on signs and are used everywhere, even on the news. The school also teaches us using casual Japanese is too rude and that you should aways use watashi. http://www.facebook.com/kanadajin3 http://www.twitter.com/kanadajin3 http://kanadajin3.blogspot.jp/ http://instagram.com/kanadajin3
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Even though this video has a lot of dislikes (maybe because she sounds a bit arrogant), I totally relate to her problems with studying abroad! I do not think she is "stuck up," just frustrated.
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Is there any way to study at Japanese language school or like exchange student for free or at least low pay? (Sorry, if there are any mistakes in sentence, English isn't my native language)
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You are the definition of a strong independant woman.
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It's seems to me Japanese stick to examination too much, and i also think much of how much i get than how i can do.
But, in Japanese society, if only you could get better grade, you can promote smoothly in every field.
The reason why I think Japanese are said to be industrial is we are always being composed, and trying to achieve it.
In this respect, I think this is good way to study and learn.
For sure, this is because Japanese is lack of ability to accomplish what they have to do. -
Japanese Language schools are a total rip off. I went to one for a year and heavily regretted my choice. It's nothing sweet like what they pretend it to be. Total waste of time, money and the efforts. More than a school it's like a prison. The old f*cking building full of cockroaches were more costly than a room in tokyo. Teachers were hella annoying, and always invaded my privacy. Always came barging into the room, always needed reasons for every action. I felt like trash. The funny thing is they kept saying they are kind, acting otherwise. They always used to say, do you have money? Make sure to give it all to us if you have, etc. In the end I quit months earlier after having had enough of their shit, but they had me pay for another month, and threatened they wouldn't give it back unless I go home within a week. Plus it's not educational. It's a slavery thing. You're literally paying them money to be a slave. In the end, nothing gained. losses only. I was also horribly mistreated and discriminated against in front of the whole class, because they personally did not like me or my high scores. Their attitude differs depending on various facts, including your nationality, how well you do, how you look, etc. It was sickening for me. The most ridiculous experience I have ever had in my life.
This school is KLS and is in kagoshima. -
well it is basically the only way to get in Japan so no choice.
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is there learning language schools for one year.and provid job .thank you for the videos.
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When you go to a language school it is in Japan right? How did you get there and live there?
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不自然な日本語とはどういうものでしたか?
あと、間違えなのに覚えてください というのは どんな間違えのものでしたか?
おしえてくださいお願いします? -
Hey, I need to learn how to speak kanji. Can you find ways to teach me how?
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When you make mistakes, You can learned them and fix it.
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thanks!
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You are saying there are good schools that teach you language, culture and other stuffs and there are schools that just for JLPT. I don't need to pass JLPT, I just want to learn Japanese. So could you please tell me how to find the good schools?
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Kinda like regular school
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Do you know where you can get the text books that are used at the schools (the actual schools that the kids uses from primary grade 1-6, etc). Are they provided to schools only?
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i'm going to kai japanese language school for 2 months i dont know very much all i know is hiragana and i'm only going for 2 months from and kinda doing for a test run to see if i'd want to move there later do you know anything about kai? is it bad or good
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+kanadajin3 Hey just curious. I'm planning to pursue further study in Japan and I have encountered this Japanese language school in Fukuoka. The whole program is around 1 and a half years. min 1 year 3 months, max 2 years but they have this curriculum that make it a requirement for student to work in a part time job of one's choice starting the 3rd months of study onward. They said it would help with the language learning by interacting and actually using Japanese with the locals. What do you think? Is it good or bad?
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Where do I find these inexpensive ones?
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People are trying to interest me in attending Nihongo Center in Kyoto. I thought on one of your videos you mentioned living near Osaka which isn't all that far south of Kyoto. Are you referring to that school in this video? Thank you for all your vids! You have shown a little more light on what it's like to be foreign in Japan.
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Sounds like the American public school system. haha