[Colin]

I have a random question pertaining to the fact I'm going to spend a year in Japan in (gasp) 21 days.

I'm currently taking Japanese 1 in school, and I was curious on how fluent you think i'll be by the time I return in January/February.

Some people in my class are skipping Japanese 2 next year by taking it over the summer, and thus taking japanese 3 next year, yet people think i should come back home and just take Japanese 3, which means I would be at the same lvl of the people who took it over a summer compared to a year of complete immersion. in addition to my above question, does this seem right?