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Originally Posted by Hatredcopter
If you have the funds, study abroad. Almost any university that offers classes in Japanese will also offer study abroad opportunities. If you don't have the funds, many scholarships are geared specifically for students who go abroad.
Believe me, you'll learn more Japanese in a semester (or two) studying in Japan than you can in years. I just got back from studying abroad in Nagoya for a year. Prior to that, I had taken three years of Japanese. I thought I was pretty darn good at Japanese by that point (minus being completely literate with Kanji), but man did I end up learning a lot more once I had lived in Japan for awhile. The university I studied at offered intensive Japanese courses along with many Japanese-related courses all taught in English (cultural courses, economics, history, all sorts of topics).
There's absolutely no better way of ensuring your success in both Japan and the Japanese language than by studying abroad there. Not only that, but you get a real taste of what living in Japan is like and you can decide if it's really something you want to do in the future.
After studying abroad there myself, I've decided I want to return for a [much] longer period of time. I'm currently getting ready to apply for the JET Program (as a CIR, not an ALT  ) |
Sou desu ne. Well, I'm still in high school and barely becoming a senior this upcoming semester, so I'm not sure where to start. How did you go about studying abroad, and if you don't mind me asking, how old are you by the way? I'm still fixated in attending college so I can get my bachelor's degree in business administration, which hopefully will take three years or less, so I'll be 21 by then. Afterwards, I plan on getting a job in Japan in a business environment, mind me, I say "business environment" since I'm not sure what I'm majoring in yet. Also, what's a CIR, is it better than a ALT (Jason is a ALT I believe) or any advantages over the other? By the way, when you say studying abroad", do you mean taking college courses over there?