Ahh, actually that wasn’t me who studied at KCP. I’ve never done study abroad, so I’m afraid I can’t really help you with your questions, sorry, but perhaps someone else can answer you?
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I did do the single semester (quarter) with them. You can go without being enrolled in college I believe, there were a number of international students who were doing so. I would definitely look into it further, it was worth every penny. The sensei are wonderful, and the curriculum was tough, a little fast but manageable. You learn a lot in a short amount of time. If you have questions about studying with them you could always contact them!
Here is their general webpage!
http://www.kcp.ac.jp/eng/#And here is their contact for U.S.! I hear you can also enroll for the program just in general, and not as a U.S. Programme student, and that that is cheaper.
http://www.kcpinternational.com/contact/
Thanks for the info! I think I killed my original plan of doing an overseas course while working full-time at my job. The less intense programs I could probably swing that/a really short two-week seesion with don’t seem worth it, and programs like this are probably too intense to allow me to pull a full day of studying and then an 8+ hours for shift at work, ahah. But I’m definitely going to keep this in mind for potential future plans since I did like the descriptions of the classes at KCP more than Genki or others I looked at.
I’d think you get a lot of practice out of it but there’s only so much you can learn in a couple of weeks.
Hm, yeah, that’s kind of my thoughts too, I’m just not sure if only a couple weeks practice is worth it (unless I’m already going, perhaps).
I haven’t done GenkiJacs, but I did study with KCP International Japanese Language school. They might have options that could work for you…
That program seems to be only available to current college students, so I didn’t think I’d be eligible, though perhaps I’m wrong. Might have to look into this further. Did you do the single semester with them?
thoughts?
Pondering whether doing just a week or two at a Japanese language school would actually be worth it. Or if even a month would be. I could probably convince work to let me do a WFH arrangement for a month (or two?), but the question is would it be enough of a bump to my learning to bother with the time and money, and I’m not really sure. I did notice improvement even just from watching TV and minimal contact with people the last time I went for a week plus. But I feel like given I’m in this ridiculous semi-intermediate stage, improvement doesn’t really happen as spectacularly or drastically as it did as a beginner, and it makes it seem like anything less than 3-6 months would be silly. But since I am no longer a student I don’t really have 3-6 months to spend doing something like that, whoops.
Has anyone done a really short stay with a school like GenkiJACS and thought it was worth it?
I suppose partly it’s hard to say if me taking a week or two off and just booking a hotel somewhere (mostly just to readjust my expectations so that I’m not thinking “I’m at home, so I can slack”) and multiple JOI lessons or something to make it a “study vacation” on my own wouldn’t be just as useful to me or something, and cheaper. I do have a week of vacation coming up next month that perhaps I’ll plan to do something like that for (at least for part of it… there are other things I need to get done while I have the time off) to see how it goes.