Reviews

It was the best opportunity to actually utilize the Japanese skills learned in class in addition to making friends. The Tea Ceremony club was a lovely glance into traditional Japanese culture.

I thought that the trip to Kamogawa Sea World during the Winter Term was a lot of fun, and very interesting.

This is a school that can truly help anyone improve their Japanese. Not only do you meet new people but those people become lifetime friends.

Just in these three months alone we have covered about the same material covered in nine months of classes back home. At this point I am learning new material that I never got to back home in my classes.

I found the class trip to be very satisfying because it allowed a day of rest and bonding. Students were able to use their new knowledge in a practical environment.

The Kamakura trip was fascinating, I really enjoyed seeing all the shrines and temples, and getting to stay at a ryokan.I loved the Edo Tokyo Museum, and would have like to go back (and will, if I get a chance to return to Japan).

I enjoyed the bus trip because it was a chance to interact with non English speaking students outside of class, as I might not have otherwise.

Just to push yourself harder than you would in America because this is the only time you have to vastly improve your Japanese – make friends with people who can’t speak English because it forces you to use what you have learned in class.

One of my teachers goes around the room and has everyone make example sentences with the grammar we are learning that day and i love it because it gives us practice but also because sometimes we can see the grammar used in ways we might not have thought of yet.

The U.S. Culture Class — getting the chance to go outside of the school-to-dorm bubble was absolutely invaluable to me as somebody who didn’t apply for a homestay, and the lectures, especially those by non-faculty, gave me a breadth of information that certainly piqued my interest in the history of Japan.