Moving to Kyoto next April
first thing first, i want to say thank you everyone for making that many threads and sharing your knowledge and experience
about Japan. It really helped me to rethinking many times "why i want to move to Japan" and to find an answer. I'm 22 years old, i'm from Europe, 2 years ago i studied abroad in Denmark but i dropped out(didn't like Engineering) and took 1 year off so that i could find out what i want to be in next 10 years. Now i know what i want to be and i already found a University in Kagawa, so the only problem is language. I found a school in Kyoto School in Kyoto, HOME - Japanese Language School in Kyoto | NIHONGO CENTER : 日本語センター, and the feedback was good. So i was thinking maybe someone who is/were studying there and can share some information about school? Next is activities, soccer and tennis are sports that i play everyday, but in Japan the price for using tennis court for 1 hour is very expensive, so i have few questions: 1)Soccer: i want to find a amateur team, so that i can train at least 5 times a week for 2 hours, but i heard that they don't like to take Gaijins in there teams is it true? 2)I read in internet that there are free tennis courts in Kyoto, does someone know where i can find them? i wanted to ask about apartments, but nah maybe some other time. Thank you |
Does Kagawa U. teach in English (the English part of their site has many dead links and little information)?
If not, are you prepared to spend the next 4+ years in intensive study to possibly pass the entrance exam? I think these are the important questions before looking for cheap soccer and tennis facilities. |
To MMM:
I'm choosing Kagawa U. to study in Japanese. i contacted with nihongo-centre few months ago and i asked them how many years does it take for students to be able to pass the university exams and they said 1.5-2 years. If i really will need 4+ years to be able to pass the exams, than i will take extra classes, and will try my best to pass the exams if not in 2 years than in 3. and finding "cheap" place where i can sport is an important than other things i want to accomplish in Japan including university :) Thank you |
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It takes approximately three times as long for an English speaker to learn Japanese as it does another romance language. Could you realistically learn enough French in 6 months, starting from scratch, to enter a university? If someone told me they could teach me enough Japanese in 1.5 years to be not only fluent, but intelligent enough to pass a university exam, I would be very suspicious. Why does it take Japanese natives 12 years of education to get to that level, if Nippon Center can do it in 18 months? |
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I am more interested in knowing if you think someone can know no Japanese, study for 18 months, and get into a Japanese university. |
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I'm not saying that nihongo centre will teach me "perfect" japanese in 2 years or 3, it's just what they said and if thats not right than it's no problem, than if i'll could not get in the University in the 3th year, i will study another year and another year. I will try as long as it needs because i want to get into university very very much, but it's not my main goal, so i can wait as long as it takes :) |
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