In the beginning, it was a lot harder to speak the language but after seven
months I've improved a lot, especially with kanji because there's a lot of kanji we learn
and the teachers are very like forward with like trying to speak
just Japanese in class so it's been improving in a very very fast pace.
There's a lot of benefits of studying Japanese in Japan, the first one being that at all times
you can speak to Japanese people in person and learn actual natural Japanese, where
when you're learning back in your own country you can only really talk with people who are
either Japanese your teacher or in your class so it does make it quite difficult
to learn natural Japanese when you're not surrounded by Japanese culture and people.
The difference between KAI and other schools is that we have students with diverse nationality.
Our students are from about 50 different countries.
I think my Japanese has improved a lot since I've moved here to Japan even just doing
menial tasks like going to the convenience store or going to supermarket or even talking with Japanese friends that I've made
while here has improved my Japanese a lot, as well as school has really helped
me understand grammar and kanji and how it's used in everyday life so I'm very appreciative of that.
I chose KAI because it was a recommendation from Go! Go! Nihon.
The pace is kinda quick but not too fast and you learn a lot quicker here and the
teachers are very helpful with that and yeah that's the main reason why I chose to KAI.
What we are careful about when teaching is understanding that students are from different countries with different backgrounds, education and ways of thinking,
so we consider how they could learn and get used to Japanese life and culture while respecting everyone's way of thinking and culture.
I think KAI is a great place to come to with for Western students because they have a big focus
on speaking and presentation as well as kanji. Since KAI has such a big Western population
coming here they really do a great job in providing details on how to understand kanji
write it and how to use it in everyday life. My school timetable it's practically four hours
and starts from 9am and goes till 12:50. it's four 50 minute segments with a 10 minute break in between
each. A normal lesson starts with kanji and after that is grammar and then after that, it's either a
presentation or a sakubun which is like essay writing and stuff like that and sometimes we have
conversations too so you like try to have a normal conversation with everyone in just Japanese.
The important thing is that you clearly understand why you study Japanese, why you came to Japan to study Japanese.
At the beginning everyone's vision is clear, but people sometimes forget it in the way, so it's important to remember why you are studying Japanese,
and to think about what you should do now and what will lead to your dreams in the future is the most efficient way to learn Japanese.
After graduating I'm gonna go to college and they've helped me find colleges that I want
to go to which is I want to study horology, it's watchmaking. They've helped me a
lot with finding schools, how to like pass the exam to get into school and they will help
you prepare stuff like and this is self-study material but that will help you get anything
you need. I used Go! Go! Nihon in order to come to Japan, they were recommending me
a lot of different schools that I thought were good but kind of being the best for
the type of education that I wanted to have which is mainly stuff based around
speaking and speech practice because I want to become a translator in the future. Considering
that, I've only been studying for about a year and I'm able to have natural conversation with a
lot of Japanese people and occasionally people think that I'm a native which don't know about
that but I do appreciate the compliment a lot. I really do think it's improved a lot.
Come study at KAI if you want to develop your communication skills!