University of Kentucky, Lexington, Etats-Unis Langues étrangères, Licence, Accord universitaire
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Langue d'enseignement: Anglais
La langue locale fut: Different than language of instruction
Apprendre le Anglais fut un élément important de la décision?
Non, pas vraiment.
Apprendre le la langue locale fut un élément important de la décision?
Oui, je souhaitais améliorer mon la langue locale
Quels progrès en la langue locale?
Mon niveau d'avant: Échanges quotidens (courses, déplacements...) Mon niveau après: Aucun problème, même en colloquial
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There's a huge English-speaking bubble at Kansai Gaidai, and you have to make an effort in order to actually get away from it and put yourself in situations where you can actually speak/learn japanese. With a program this big (400+ students), and while being somewhat isolated from the rest of the campus (all the international students take classes in a separate building on campus), finding opportunities to use Japanese can be difficult at times.
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Furman University, Greenville, SC, Etats-Unis Études Éthniques et Culturelles, Licence, Accord universitaire
Langues étrangères
Langue d'enseignement: Anglais
La langue locale fut: Different than language of instruction
Apprendre le Anglais fut un élément important de la décision?
Non, pas vraiment.
Apprendre le la langue locale fut un élément important de la décision?
Oui, je souhaitais améliorer mon la langue locale
Quels progrès en la langue locale?
Mon niveau d'avant: Ne parlais pas Mon niveau après: Ne parlais pas
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Somehow, I managed to mutually fall in love with a gifted linguist from Barcelona. Between her and the rest of the student community (not to mention the fact that many more Japanese speak English than Chinese do) I personally encountered absolutely no difficulty in any setting. I must admit, however, that I was uniquely blessed with a wonderfully intelligent girlfriend (and friends) who tolerated my ineptness for the Japanese language.
The language courses are pretty dry but not that hard, as long as you study on your own. The business courses are a bitch so don't take them unless you need them for your major. The other humanities electives were pretty easy, just make sure you take the good ones. Hollstein, Paul Scott are two really cool teachers.
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Not really. The classes were pretty easy so it was nice to have a kind of vacation semester when I was at Kansai Gaidai.
Activités, Vie nocturne: A lieu autant sur le campus et en dehors
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Osaka's underlounge nightclub. Good music (trance/techno/house) and great atmosphere at the club.
We did a lot of day-trips to Osaka and Kyoto for eating, shopping, and sightseeing. Kyoto is a marvellous place for visiting Shinto shrines and Buddhist temples. Osaka's Shinsaibashi and Umeda areas have fantastic shopping and eating places. Don't miss Hep5 mall at Umeda with the red ferris wheel on the top of the building. Amazing!
Most of the afternoon elective courses are a waste of time. A complete joke compared to classes at my home institution... Grading was very easy as expectations were so low. On the other hand, this was fine for the majority of students, since most of the foreign students at Kansai Gaidai are not very studious or that interested in anything other than getting drunk and trying to hook up with Japanese students.
The Japanese courses definitely required more effort, but were basically drill-and-regurgitate type courses and most foreign students made little effort to practice Japanese outside of class.
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Honestly, I think Kansai Gaidai is basically an ingenious scheme to draw English-speaking foreigners to Hirakata in large number so that the university can market itself and increase enrollment by Japanese students looking to better their English... very little thought seems to have been put into the curriculum for international students. This program needs to take itself more seriously for it to be of any intellectual value to those studying abroad there.
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