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Originally Posted by MMM
To be frank, I have never met anyone who self-studied outside of Japan and reached any real level of proficiency. I would loved to be proven wrong, but I know I wouldn't have been able to do it outside of a formal class environiment.
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I know someone who self-studied for years before taking it formally at a university. His Japanese is really good too and that was before he started a couple of years ago. I always admired how he seemed to be good with languages, although, he did admit that all the Spanish he knew is practically gone. The only thing he did complain about is that he wasn't all that confident with speaking it since he rarely had the opportunity to practice that. Last year, he was in Japan as a part of his exchange, for a year, for his major, I suppose (I know with international studies, seems you have to study abroad for at least a year or a semester). He's now a JET applicant for this year as an ALT. He's had his interview and stuff...just waiting to see if he was accepted. I hope he gets it. It'd be nice to know of someone I'd been talking to for years online to get in the program. ^_^