Thanks for sharing this video. I’m turning 37 in October and at the same time will be starting a Japanese language course in Okayama to fulfil a lifelong desire I have had since my youth. I have been a bit self conscious about my age but hearing about your journey has helped relieved my anxiety 🙏🏾
Congratulations on making your lifelong dream come true! I'm really happy for you! And I'm glad to have been some help. Enjoy Japan. Make tons of memory. I hope you'll have a blast there.
Thank you for sharing. Having language schools in countries for all adults is awesome and I believe very beneficial for the people, the country and the world. I'm 25 and think doing language school like this is the absolute best option as you get to live in the country for decent amount of time and learn to be able to integrate. Japan is in top 7 countries I'm interested in moving to and I'm very interested to do the language school for 3-24 months (I would definitely try for at least a year). It's definitely good to remind people that more advanced learners not talking to you isn't because they want to be mean [hopefully], it's because they want to focus on learning the language.
Very interesting. I'm thinking about going to school after I retire so this was a good video to watch. It would be several decades since I first studied/worked over there but I guess that's ok.
I'm 28, and still in the beginning of collecting money for japanese school in Japan. I'm glad I'm not old to go there, and our age become a secret. I hope I can get enough money before age 30 to apply japanese school
My recommendation is to study as much Japanese BEFORE you arrive in Japan, be it language school, university, or for work. Indeed there are many foreign-nationals who arrive in Japan without any Japanese language training and become near-native speakers. We've witnessed a number of Ukrainian refugees without prior language training reaching JLPT-N2 in just two years attending language school or university in Japan. However, I believe everything will click much faster and you'll absorb the language much easier, if you have studied to about N5/N4-level before you come to Japan. (You don't need to have taken the actual test, it's just a ballpark estimate.) Your learning curve will be much steeper in Japan if you already have spent time on the basics, especially because many languages schools in Japan teach Japanese language in Japanese. This would be the biggest difference between taking a Japanese language class in an English-speaking country, and in Japan. If you can understand the language of instruction, I think it's less stressful too. You may not be comfortably fluent in daily conversations, but at least you'll understand the topic, degree of seriousness, or if you're being asked to make a decision or not. Whether it's shopping or eating out or traveling...the more fluent you are, the more comfortable you'll be. And "studying" a language isn't just about mastering grammar, vocabularly, or pronunciation/intonation. Listening to Japanese music, watching Japanese UA-cam or TV drama, and reading about history, culture, geography...is also studying. All those small things add up and give you a better understanding. It's because language is culture, and culture is the history of the people speaking that language. I've never been to Okazaki City, but it's known in Japan as the original castle/domain of TOKUGAWA Ieyasu. Foreigners may know him as the first Tokugawa Shogun from 1603. I've met many people from the MIKAWA region (aka eastern-part of Aichi Prefecture)...and they are enormously proud of their history.
😂It just so happened that my absolute beginner class was all females. Some of the upper classes were actually dominated by males. So, no, you are not too male to go to a Japanese language school 😂 It's all just the luck of the draw.
There were many personal variables and factors that came into play. Don't really want to disclose it at the moment. Maybe I'll make a video about it one of these days.
The " you are never too old to learn " mantra is true up to the point and that point occurs when you actually are too old to learn . It's mostly said as an encouragement so that the people that aren't too old, can learn one more thing . But there is a point in everyone's life where you really are too old .. for example , i stopped riding my mountain bike because i couldn't get up the hills . my mind would go up but body retaliated with " Oh hell no " .
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Thanks for sharing this video. I’m turning 37 in October and at the same time will be starting a Japanese language course in Okayama to fulfil a lifelong desire I have had since my youth. I have been a bit self conscious about my age but hearing about your journey has helped relieved my anxiety 🙏🏾
Congratulations on making your lifelong dream come true! I'm really happy for you! And I'm glad to have been some help. Enjoy Japan. Make tons of memory. I hope you'll have a blast there.
Thank you for sharing. Having language schools in countries for all adults is awesome and I believe very beneficial for the people, the country and the world.
I'm 25 and think doing language school like this is the absolute best option as you get to live in the country for decent amount of time and learn to be able to integrate. Japan is in top 7 countries I'm interested in moving to and I'm very interested to do the language school for 3-24 months (I would definitely try for at least a year). It's definitely good to remind people that more advanced learners not talking to you isn't because they want to be mean [hopefully], it's because they want to focus on learning the language.
i was meant to see this today
its never too late to accomplish your dreams!
Very interesting. I'm thinking about going to school after I retire so this was a good video to watch. It would be several decades since I first studied/worked over there but I guess that's ok.
Best of luck. What is your age?
I hope you don't mind me asking.
thank you!!
I'm 28, and still in the beginning of collecting money for japanese school in Japan. I'm glad I'm not old to go there, and our age become a secret. I hope I can get enough money before age 30 to apply japanese school
Good luck with everything!
Out if curiosity, how much is “enough” money to you?
My recommendation is to study as much Japanese BEFORE you arrive in Japan, be it language school, university, or for work. Indeed there are many foreign-nationals who arrive in Japan without any Japanese language training and become near-native speakers.
We've witnessed a number of Ukrainian refugees without prior language training reaching JLPT-N2 in just two years attending language school or university in Japan. However, I believe everything will click much faster and you'll absorb the language much easier, if you have studied to about N5/N4-level before you come to Japan. (You don't need to have taken the actual test, it's just a ballpark estimate.)
Your learning curve will be much steeper in Japan if you already have spent time on the basics, especially because many languages schools in Japan teach Japanese language in Japanese. This would be the biggest difference between taking a Japanese language class in an English-speaking country, and in Japan.
If you can understand the language of instruction, I think it's less stressful too. You may not be comfortably fluent in daily conversations, but at least you'll understand the topic, degree of seriousness, or if you're being asked to make a decision or not. Whether it's shopping or eating out or traveling...the more fluent you are, the more comfortable you'll be.
And "studying" a language isn't just about mastering grammar, vocabularly, or pronunciation/intonation. Listening to Japanese music, watching Japanese UA-cam or TV drama, and reading about history, culture, geography...is also studying. All those small things add up and give you a better understanding. It's because language is culture, and culture is the history of the people speaking that language.
I've never been to Okazaki City, but it's known in Japan as the original castle/domain of TOKUGAWA Ieyasu. Foreigners may know him as the first Tokugawa Shogun from 1603. I've met many people from the MIKAWA region (aka eastern-part of Aichi Prefecture)...and they are enormously proud of their history.
Ok but this video created a new question, am I too male to go to a Japanese language school?
😂It just so happened that my absolute beginner class was all females. Some of the upper classes were actually dominated by males. So, no, you are not too male to go to a Japanese language school 😂 It's all just the luck of the draw.
So why did you leave after 2 quarters? I see this happen with other students. Curious.
There were many personal variables and factors that came into play. Don't really want to disclose it at the moment. Maybe I'll make a video about it one of these days.
The " you are never too old to learn " mantra is true up to the point and that point occurs when you actually are too old to learn .
It's mostly said as an encouragement so that the people that aren't too old, can learn one more thing .
But there is a point in everyone's life where you really are too old ..
for example , i stopped riding my mountain bike because i couldn't get up the hills . my mind would go up but body retaliated with " Oh hell no " .
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