/jp/ - Otaku Culture

File: 1.95 MB, 400x225, 4L_8WBjWuGV.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]

Has anyone taken Japanese in college? Any ideas on proficiency, difficulty, or experiences abroad? Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:14:41 2015 No.13757598 [Reply] [Original]

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:20:02 2015 No.13757620

>>13757598
Don't bother with uni classes
They teach at a glacially slow pace and you'll be massively disappointed with your progress.
It took a whole year for our class to go through a textbook that could have easily be learned in about a month or two's time with dedicated studying

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:22:46 2015 No.13757632

I did at Brigham Young University. The biggest issue with Brigham Young language is the LDS church has tens of thousands of foreign missionaries. They then put missionaries who return home from 2 years of living abroad directly into 3rd year classes. This way BYU gets to dominate foreign languages studies programs by artificially inflating the skills of its students.

This has the added bonus of forcing students who don't go on foreign missions to 'catch up' by learning in 2 years of 1 hour classes and homework everything someone living in the country for 2 years gets.

Pure bullshit. We used the same Japanese textbook and curriculum as Harvard's Japanese language program (the Asian languages dean at BYU was a Harvard graduate) only BYU goes twice as fast. Literally. Twice as fast as Harvard.

After failing Japanese 201 twice I left for Utah Valley University where I got straight A's in Japanese.

So if you're Mormon and you go to BYU take your foreign languages at UVU.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:24:33 2015 No.13757637

>>13757598
I took an intensive Japanese class at my university.
You had to go five days a week for classes only in Japanese plus two normal classes.
It was probably one of the most enjoyable classes I took and I made a bunch of friends because you are forced to socialize and I even established a harem of foreign chinese girls to study with.

The constant socialization and rigorous schedule conflicted with my shut-in ways though, and eventually depression and sloth overcame my determination and caused me to skip classes, eventually failing out of the second semester class and dropping out of university all together a year later.

Now I am back to the hikikomori NEET lifestyle and I wonder if it is ever possible to truly leave it.

Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:26:46 2015 No.13757643

>>13757620
At my uni we didn't even learn kanji until the second year.

With that said, self-study isn't for everyone.

I only really started learning Japanese once I moved there. And even now I'm not as good as kids fresh out of school from actually good programs. Makes me jealous.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:35:17 2015 No.13757677 Line one of blog. Line two of blog. Finally, line three of blog.

>>	Anonymous Sat Jul 11 12:35:53 2015 No.13757679 >>13757598 >>>/int/

>>	Anonymous Sun Jul 12 13:02:15 2015 No.13762162 >>13757598 whats college?

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:39:39 2015 No.13769090

>>13757620
I go to an Ivy League university and my classes were fantastic, and the structure really helped for the first year. I've tried to self-study some other languages before and I'm too ADD to motivate myself. After that, I studied abroad and that gave me the foundation to where I can learn on my own and actually remember it. I also have friends to use the language with

That said, most people finish however many years of university Japanese hardly able to speak. Immersion is necessary to get any real ability.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 20:40:43 2015 No.13769092 >>13769090 Not trying to act all superior I'm a filthy idol otaku and will probably end up a NEET despite my fancy credentials

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 22:49:34 2015 No.13769592 >>13769092 Just curious but, how does an Ivy League student end up on 4chan's /jp/? inb4 > implying anon is actually attends an Ivy League school.

>>	Twiright Sparkle !uH3i7MvfFA Mon Jul 13 23:37:29 2015 No.13769819 >>13769592 You think everyone on 4chan is a loser or something anon?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:39:05 2015 No.13769827 >>13769819 I hope your next trick is to act irrationally angry towards everyone.

>>	Twiright Sparkle !uH3i7MvfFA Mon Jul 13 23:41:35 2015 No.13769840 >>13769827 >Trick Nope I just post whatever I want on any board I want too.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:42:40 2015 No.13769845 >>13769840 Alright.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:43:18 2015 No.13769851 >>13769819 >actually being this normal and giving a shit about ivy i bet you go ``muh cars'' too. consumerist/materialist rofl, i thought we learned these things were bad and lowlier and stupider than nigger shit when we were 13 you idiot

>>	Twiright Sparkle !uH3i7MvfFA Mon Jul 13 23:48:19 2015 No.13769869 >>13769851 >Implying I'm an AmeriCUCK Nice projection btw.

Anonymous Mon Jul 13 23:58:37 2015 No.13769924

I took intensive Japanese over the summer at a local college, something like >>13757637

That class was super helpful. Having an actual Japanese person coach you on pronunciation and force you to answer questions in Japanese and stuff really improves your speaking ability. But those classes aren't going to help you read a VN. Self-study will be way faster for kanji and vocabulary. Also it will be full of surface level weeaboo kids, at least at first. As classes get harder, more and more weebs with low power levels drop out.

After that I went to a Japanese university for 4.5 years. They made me take tons of Japanese classes. Some were useful, some weren't. At a certain point classes won't do much for you anymore. However as a foundation for actually speaking to people they are very important.

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 14 00:00:01 2015 No.13769928 >>13757620 This also, they force you to have a PERFECT HANDWRITING to the point of making a fuss if you write from the wrong direction or with a wrong hand

Anonymous Wed Jul 15 01:57:22 2015 No.13775363

>>13757598
I actually had a positive experience with my Japanese classes up until 400 level. I was a Japanese major (yeah, I'm an idiot). Now I use my bachelor's degree to read visual novels while I look for unrelated work and try to get into nursing school.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:01:25 2015 No.13775383 >>13775363 Most of the kanji they had me learning in 400 level were not particularly useful. One of the words they had me learn to write was 電磁波 which means electromagnetic waves. A Japanese friend told me he had never written that word in his life.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:05:41 2015 No.13775399 >>13775383 お疲れ様w

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:33:03 2015 No.13775511 >>13775383 I mean nowadays people hardly write anything in any language by hand. It's important to know how to read words like that though.

Anonymous Wed Jul 15 02:43:27 2015 No.13775547
File: 132 KB, 800x800, 1338715497780.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google]
[ERROR]

>>13769092
Nice. I'm a Harvard dropout who is now just a NEET playing video games and browsing /jp/ all day while my parents constantly express their disappoint in me. I could post proof with my school ID and such but I doubt anybody would believe me even if I did.

I'll probably have to go back to school at some point.

Reply to thread

Name
E-mail
Subject
Comment
Action

Advanced search
Text to find
Subject [?]Search by post subject. Leave empty for any.
Username [?]Search for user name. Leave empty for any user name.
Tripcode [?]Search for tripcode. Leave empty for any.
Email [?]Search by email. Leave empty for any.
Filename [?]Search by image filename. Leave empty for any.
From Date [?]Enter what date to start searching from. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
To Date [?]Enter what date to start searching until. Format is YYYY-MM-DD
Image hash
Search in	All Posts OPs Only
Deleted posts	Show all posts Show only deleted posts Only show non-deleted posts
Internal posts	Show all posts Show only internal posts Show only archived posts
Order	New posts first Old posts first
Capcode	All Posts Only by Users Only by Mods Only by Admins Only by Developers
Results	Posts Threads
Action	[ Simple ]