- Arts Language Requirement -

Tsenguun
Fri, 13 Mar 2009 03:05:20 +0000

I am in 2nd year Japanese course and have a plenty of friends who are in intro classes. Intro to any language classes are mostly, I think, 6 credits classes and yes, a lot of work too. For example, in Japanese, when you advance to the 2nd year you will have 4 credits and meet everyday once (4 discussions and a lecture) compared to (7 times = 5 discussions + 2 lectures)

If you guys have any kind of prior knowledge that will help a lot. I don’t have that much trouble. Someone said above that you have homework every night. It is not homework that we have to do every night, but it is some memorization. For us, we have vocab + kanji quiz everyday (vocab is in range of 10-20 words and 3-4 kanjis) and you have to memorize the assigned dialogue of the day, which is called the CC aka core conversation. Oh yeah, you also have to record the CC’s of the day by the time your section starts. You can do the recording either in your room or at Language Resource Center. But if you wanna do it in your room, you will have to buy the thing for $50. I heard that people just go to Language center and copy the thing and do it in their rooms.

And you have like real homework only for 2 days of the week, those could be kanji sheet that is like you write around 30 kanjis on paper nice and clean. Some grammar exercises after every chapter of the text. And yeah, also there is this Eavesdropping homework that you have to do in every 2 weeks approx.

Well, it is now starting to seem a lot to me. But if you really like it, you can just do it. I love my Japanese class most because it is a lot of fun. You also have outside-class interactions with your professor and TA’s during any Japan-related or JUSA (Japan-US Student Association) event.

Hope you understand my poor English.