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02-23-2009, 05:53 AM

I am just curious as to why you would want to attend college to get degree in a foreign language you are not fluent in? This is the degree that will decide your future career.

I'll be honest when I say, I have lived in Japan, taught English in Japan, taught Japanese in the US and have been a translator of Japanese, and I wouldn't dream of trying to attend college in Japan in Japanese. It would be an exercise in frustration that has no ends. It would be generous to think I could spend three hours translating a one hour lecture. Now if I had 5 of those a day...

As a translator I try and not schedule more than 5 pages of a book per day. If I were a college student I could be expected to be reading 20+ pages a day...PER CLASS.

It sounds like pure Hell to me.
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