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Originally Posted by Toastyzeus
Cool, you stated "pretty intimidating after studying Japanese for just four years", are you fluent in Japanese now?
(Sure looks like it, 10,126 posts on a Japanese forum lol)
I am going to assume you have been/are still on the JET programme, if so for how many years did you stay on it?
Did you learn Japanese while on the program?
~~I feel a little rude asking so many questions :3
I hope you don't mind, thanks.
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Please feel free to ask whatever you like.
If anyone non-Japanese tells you they are fluent in Japanese, take it with a grain of salt. I can communicate in Japanese, written and spoken, but I would not call myself fluent.
I was in the JET Program in the mid 90s for three years.
I learned more Japanese living there for three years than I did at University study for four years, but the foundation I got at University made it possible for me to really expand on my learning. I also lived in Kansai, which is has a terrific dialect that doesn't appear in any textbook in the US. It took me probably 6 months to a year to get accustomed to the dialect.
But no, I did not "study" Japanese while I was there, but I did learn it much better, to the point when I came back I was a teacher of Japanese for several years, and then went on to translation.