Tokyo?

[Shamagim]

Hello :)

Im planning on going to Japan in January to keep studying japanese in the GEOS institute of language in Tokyo for an entire year, and after that im planning to keep studying in a Japanese College for 4 more years......So ill be alone, scared and away from everything i know :( , with no contacts, no one to explain some basics ( that i will learn eventually after embarassing myself XD ) and no sketch group....Reason why i thought it might be a good idea to see if anyone is kind enought to contact me ( hoepfully to train my already rusty japanese :(.....(.i been so bussy trying to collect foundings for this "adventure" that i havent had time to practice)

Well thanks for your time, i hope i can find someone in this community willing to aid a future gaijin ( who is more likelly to make a lot of mistakes and is to socially odd to find people by normal methods XD)

[N D Hill]

The Japanese language is tough. I've taken one semester of beginner's Japanese and I'm taking the second course right now. I'm hoping to participate in an exchange program between my school University of Tokyo next year though for a fraction of the time you'll be spending. Supposedly, Japanese is much easier to learn when you're emersed in it 24 hours a day as a child is when learning their own native language for the first time. I may end up testing this theory.

[Shamagim]

Sorry for taking that long in replying Exo, well to tell you the truth, based on my experience, Japanese language is one of the worlds toughest to learn, of cource is much easyer is you are Japanese, or is you studyed from your country as a child, etc, but it isnt something you can learn to perfection from outside...even if you manage to learn all the grammar involved, plus verb conjugations, etc, you still have 1940 characters to learn, plus a wide vocabulary if you want to study there...

Is not as easy as learning German if your native language is English, or Italian if your native language is Spanish, becuase is a language with a compleatly different nature.

I though i knew enought last year when i went to take the admission exams for a college in Kyoto, but i didnt XD.....never the less, exange proggrams are much more permissible, and you just need to be able to conversate in Japanese, so i hope to see you there :)




Anyways, im doing all the legal stuff, i have the founds and i think im good to go in January, i hope someone in there gets interested on giving me some advices :)