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tonks · 12-10-2007, 05:02 AM

Help! I want to go to Japan my junior year........but I'm a chem major and I don't know how to speak any japanese yet. I talked to the EAP ppl, and if I want to go on a year-long plan (which I do! the full year!) and actually take upper div chem classes there, I need to have at least three years of japanese........so I've got a year and a half to learn "3 years" of japanese, whatever that means...

I'll do whatever it takes...study every single day...
but I need to know whether it's realistic at all to self-study and test out of a few quarters of japanese

I'm really, really serious about this...people keep telling me to just go for a summer, but I can't really adjust to Japan in 6 weeks...

12-10-2007, 05:02 AM	#212
tonks Junior Member Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: With Remus, until we died Posts: 41	Help! I want to go to Japan my junior year........but I'm a chem major and I don't know how to speak any japanese yet. I talked to the EAP ppl, and if I want to go on a year-long plan (which I do! the full year!) and actually take upper div chem classes there, I need to have at least three years of japanese........so I've got a year and a half to learn "3 years" of japanese, whatever that means... I'll do whatever it takes...study every single day... but I need to know whether it's realistic at all to self-study and test out of a few quarters of japanese I'm really, really serious about this...people keep telling me to just go for a summer, but I can't really adjust to Japan in 6 weeks...