Reviews

Just sign up for it. The earlier the better. This was the best decision I made in my learning of Japanese.

I loved that in class, everyone was required to try and speak Japanese. It can be nerve racking speaking a new language in front of people you hardly know. So it enables you to find courage so that you may be able to speak it in any situation.

Just taking classes isn’t enough. You have to be proactive about using your Japanese.

Students are from all over the world and we can only communicate in Japanese to understand each other.

The culture class helped me think about the differences in Japanese culture from American culture.

Every now and again, you have to switch to your mother tongue — it’s inevitable. However, if it wasn’t for studying in that kind of intensive setting that forces you to think in the language, I probably wouldn’t have advanced as far as I did in Japanese.

It is a program for students who seriously want to put a lot of effort into learning Japanese, but also remember to have fun while you are here as time flies by really fast.

Being in class was always my most productive and fun times. It was a great environment to learn.

The most productive part of the program was that the classes were held entirely in Japanese, and that my classmates mostly spoke little to no English, which forced me to really try to understand everyone around me.

The classes were very helpful, especially the group discussions and conversation work.