With my classmates, I communicate in Japanese and the reason for that is because I have friends that
don't speak English as their first language and just to be inclusive with everybody, everybody
studying Japanese so let's all speak Japanese even outside of the classroom and I've just been able
to make friends I normally wouldn't have been able to make through Japanese so it's just wonderful.
The reason why I chose the school is because I saw a prior Go! Go! Nihon videos that featured this
school and I thought it looked like a wonderful place. Also the location is really nice, really
close to akihaba and Akihabara station but also in Akihabara for those that don't know there's
a lot of game centers and Anime culture and just all those sorts of things and so that's the main
reasons why I chose the school. I studied Japanese back home a little bit prior to coming but most
of the Japanese I learned back home was through my friends. I've been studying at this school for
around seven months now and my Japanese I feel has improved drastically since being here. Obviously
the main reasons is because I'm in Japan studying but other than that the way that the teachers
teach here is really fantastic it's they speak all in Japanese but you understand everything even if
you don't know Japanese you start to understand what they're teaching you. I think that the biggest
benefit of studying Japanese in Japan is that the things you learn in class you can quickly
use them in real life and that's probably the best way to learn a language in my opinion.
The special thing about Intercultural is that there are students from many different nationalities.
We have students from about 40 countries studying together.
In the long-term course where International students study, we have home classes, kanji classes, and elective classes.
In the elective classes, there're subjects that meet students' needs, so they can choose classes they like to study.
For example, they can study for JLPT, job interviews practice, business Japanese and Japanese culture etc.
Well after graduating I plan to go to university, the school has helped me with
finding options after graduating I received a list of universities here that I could apply
to after graduating as well from the school so that was one thing that was really helpful.
Students can come to this office to ask for support, where we help them with little things, such as opening a bank account and so on,
for example, when they get a letter from the city office but they don't understand. We support small things like that.
After school starts, we do an orientation in several languages.
As we provide very important information there, we try to make an environment where all the students understand what's communicated by us.
The content includes things such as how we run classes, how the curriculum is structured, and basic living rules in Japan.
During my days off I like to take little travel trips with my friends and
that's probably the thing that I like the most about being here is just traveling Japan
so I would definitely recommend the school to others. My favorite part about it is that there's
just so many people from so many different countries and you know normally you wouldn't
be able to communicate with a lot of these people because of a language barrier but everybody here
is just learning Japanese and you're able to communicate with people in Japanese that
you normally wouldn't be able to communicate with and I just find that amazing. My message to future
students is that even if you know zero Japanese this school is so welcoming in the way that they
teach you'll definitely be able to learn Japanese and pick it up very fast. Don't worry if you feel
discouraged, you'll definitely be able to reach a point that you can be proud of here.