If money is important to you, stay at the dorms. Some people manage to survive there for 4 or 5 years!!! It's really difficult to find an appartment to share with other students. Also try to cook your own food. If you're at the dorm and the kitchen is really nasty, get a micro-wave and/or an electric range (second hand will be much cheaper)
Apprendre le Japonais fut un élément important de la décision?
Oui, je voulais améliorer mon Japonais
Quels progrès en Japonais?
Mon niveau d'avant: Échanges quotidens (courses, déplacements...) Mon niveau après: A l'aise dans la plupart des cas
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Except for the MBA course, you really need to speak good Japanese. There are a few foreign teachers that teach in English, but mostly it's in Japanese.
I wish I had known that only half of the courses listed are actually offered.
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Ne perds pas ton temps
Critères importants pour mon choix (1) Aucune importance – (4) Très important
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If you come here to experience Japan, come. If it is for academic reasons, don't. Tsukuba is supposed to be one of the best universities in Japan, but it doesn't really show (at least at the graduate level).
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Pendant mon expérience à l'étranger j'ai... (1) Jaimais – (4) Très souvent
Appréhendé une autre culture
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Voyagé
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Accru mes compétences linguistiques
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Rencontré des gens d'autres pays
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Développé mon autonomie
3
Fait la fête
3
Vécu une transformation
3
Amélioré mes possibilités de carrière
3
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It's really difficult for foreign students to choose the university where they want to study. Specially if you have a Japanese-funded scholarship (even if it's only partially Japanese, as mine is), you won't be able to study at a private university, which are much better (or so I've heard).
From what I hear technical studies are OK, but anything related to Humanities or Social Sciences tends to have a so-so level. Anything you want to learn you'll have to do it mostly by yourself, specially if your Japanese is not fluent.
Vie nocturne, Voyager: A lieu principalement à la fac et/ou entre les étudiants
Activités: A lieu autant sur le campus et en dehors
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La Clave has a latin party once a month; otherwise there is no dancing scene. Frontier is a very popular place for foreign guys cause that's were Japanese girls go to find a foreign boyfriend. There are some bars that are nice (no specific recommendation) but they never seem to get a lot of visitors.
Si j'y retournais je choisirais: Appartement/maison
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The rooms at the dorm are really small, and 95% of them don't even have a shower in the same building.
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Unless you get a room in one of the newer buildings, it's really, really bad, but cheap. The newer buildings are OK for Japanese standarts, but maybe not for Western ones.
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