Kansai Gaidai University

Staying with a Japanese family really lets you get into the Japanese culture. If i stayed at the dorms, I would have met lots of people, but on the other hand, my Japanese wouldn't have improved nearly as quickly. If you want to improve your Japanese more quickly, pick homestay. Otherwise, the dorms are pretty good if you don't want to live too far from the school.

It's almost the easiest way to actually learn about Japanese culture and speak the language.

There are a lot of courses concerning arts and management, i would prefer more financial one.

the problem in kansai gaidai university is that we don t have a lot of class with japanese students

Weighing too heavily on business, not enough focus on Japanese language. Most lecture courses don't relate to language learning at all.

More class options, more focus on the language aspect.

Be aware: on paper, these classes look quite interesting, but many of the teachers are utter clowns. The best professors in the afternoon are Hlavatsch, Scott, Tracy, and Kenney. Stay away from all anthropology courses. You have been hereby warned. One of the teachers is boring, the other is flat-out insulting and probably should be fired. Japanese professors run the gamut but you don't get to choose those. There are six levels of Japanese language. 1-3 are fine, but starting at level 4 the workload is oppressive. Not enough emphasis is placed on speaking- which is exactly where we are deficient at the intermediate level!

These are fully contingent on your professor. The Japanese classes are very strictly regimented, so the professor can't go back and "reteach" a lesson the class has trouble with. The afternoon classes are too loose, leaving certain professors to abuse the privilage and clown about.