3 Months at GenkiJACS: What can you expect??
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ค. 2024
- I've finished my first 3 months at GenkiJACS; and I'm prepared to show you what YOU can expect if you go there! The goods, the bads, the frustrating; but mostly good! How much can you learn? How far can you go? Here's my HONEST response!
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Thanks for the run down of things!! I really appreciate you sharing^^
Really informative vid mate. I am looking at doing this journey myself one day. And the information you provided is reassuring. It has allowed me to set some realistic expectations. :)
Hope all is well.
I'm excited to watch your journey. Good luck! You seem very determined and I'm sure you'll make amazing progress that you will be proud of regardless
Thank you so much! I have high hopes, so the only person I'm worried about letting down is myself :P
7:10 the point about having less students in fall season made me happy, esp bc u said it will be more focused and more speaking! I want to go to genkijacs at kyoto. hope it follows the same pattern
Excellent video, man.
Thanks Chrys!
That current 2,555 sub count is eye candy. On a different note, I hope the new class pace will be a significant upgrade for you and your classmates. Been enjoying your videos like always- very delicious food for thought. I've been wanting to step up my Japanese language studying, and you're a great motivator. Keep on keepin' on!
YOU CAN DO IT FERN8 BEAT THIS LANGUAGE DOWN!!!
They’ve recently started up the 18 month courses but it’s kinda expensive so i’m tempted to go for the 1yr course in 2021. I hope they’ve gained some knowledge since your time there being a first 1 year student and made changes to make sure it’s now also a solid choice for people at the intermediate level too. I’m still a super beginner rn tho
I'm hoping to go back someday and see how it's changed or if it has at all! hopefully that video can happen after the virus!
Ayyy I also attended GenkiJACS for two and a half months (but in Tokyo) two years ago
WOOT! Hello fello Alumni ^_^
I think it is possible! I just recently discovered your channel while on a search to find youtubers in japan since I'm leaving in August to study abroad in Japan for a year. Your dedication is admirable and is even motivating me to study more since I also plan on taking the N2 in December. 毎日日本語を勉強しているから、もちろんN2をパスします！頑張りましょう！
Thank you! ^_^ I'll give it all I got!
Thank you, I plan to go for the year course April 2018 and desperately wanted to be sure that genki wasn't a scam and that it was a good learning experience. I'm very thankful for your videos and for your help in following my own dream of going to Japan.
It's good so long as you're a beginner. I don't recommend it once you're done with the beginner material
Thank you I'll remember that.
Thanks for all your info and hard work. Ive been following you for a little while now and all your info is great and knowledgeable.Im slowly starting to study on my own with apps but if you have any more advise let me know :) Thanks
Thank you so much!!!
Thanks for the help though.
YES for the N2, you can do it :D
LETS DO THIS!!
How much money did you need for the course and everything else like food and housing? Would really like to move to Japan for a year to study Japanese
Thank you for your nice video. I am a retired engineer and hoping to try out a Japanese language class in Genki Jacs this October. I take your advise and try this out. Can you please give me few tips. Thank you Best Regards Gamini Australia
Good luck trying to reach n2. I've recently started seriously trying to learn Japanese. I was going to use genki but found an alternative that seems good it's called Elementary Japanese by Hasegawa Yoko.
I've never heard of that one?? Do you like it??
I'm on lesson 3 right now I think I may be moving too fast. Yeah I compared it too genki and it seems to have better grammar explanations and more kanji possibly. The only thing is that Genki is more easy to understand.
Oof, as of now I wanted to study at GenkiJACS (Fukuoka) next years summer, since that's the single timeframe i got ... And I imagine the summer surge of students would only gotten worse since 2016, unless CoVid acts as a disincentive.
Whats the average Age of GenkiJACS students ? Judging from their websites pictures it seems to be around 24-15 ish ...
What’s that saying? Even the smallest can move the mightiest ?
Hello! Do you know Tobira, also an intermediate grammar book? It is very good, and it has a lot of small grammar topics, that will ameliorate your writing skills a lot. I'm using it in my university. Btw, I studied 5 months with Genki in Tokyo, your review is quite similar to my reception. I'll join again next month for 3 weeks, and I will start using that "chuukyuu" (dunno how to write it ) book, so I appreciate your comments on it a lot!
That chuukyuu book gives me mixed feelings, there is a much better one called "an integrated approach to intermediate Japanese" I highly recommend. The chuukyuu one moves very slow, without any good english explanation. I have heard of Tobira, but stayed away from it in Japan since the vast majority of my studies were on my own (again, the genki school's intermediate levels are so slow you hardly learn anything, imo). Nice people, but their intermediate level curr. need's some help.
Good luck for N2! I've been studying for a few years passively in my spare time outside of school, but have recently stepped up my pace.
I was wondering what the purpose of the 〜て form is? I've read it is used for connecting verbs and for requests, and two other things; however, I'm still unclear as to its purpose. If you could, I'd appreciate an explanation.
じゃあ、失礼します。19日後に横浜に行く！ありがとう！
Te form is used for the active form of a verb, so it's honestly the difference between "To do" and "Do". It's a little hard to explain over text, but I have a video where I go into a little more detail on why Japanese has the Te Form called "How to become a Te form Ninja!"; I recommend you watch that first, and if you still have more questions I'm happy to answer ^_^
Hey chad! i`ve recently discovered genki and im wondering if you can guide me on this, how is it for a super low lever person in japannesse there? which acomodations do you recomend me to choose . Mostly a super quick advise for newbies like me. thanks!
It's def meant for complete noobs. You'll be right at home! And don't do the dorms it's literally too small to live in.
You are inspiring, mate. The amount you study a day makes me want to push myself more. Also, I know this is an old video, but I want to know, how were you able to find out which schools were good to go to? I really don't want to get stuck in a school that is a poor fit for me or is just plain bad.
Unfortunately you just gotta try them sometimes :P I kept trying until I found good ones. Genki I think was my third? And even then it was only a good program really until the intermediate level and only if you're not studying outside of class to move up in pace. Every school has it's quirks though.
And thank you Chowderp! Reach for the stars!
@@ThatsMyChad hey sorry for bothering you but you said the dorms in genki were small? which accomadation would you suggest? homestay?
I've been watching quite a few of you videos, and am wondering:what exactly are your goals? The ultimate goal?
Goals change, right now it's JLPT N2 and the ability to freelance translate a few times a month! Also the ability to talk to anyone in any Ben I choose!
Hello, I watched your 〜て form video, and it was great, but I believe it only taught the conjugation.
Well the Te form is meant to be the action itself.
So for example, "To climb a mountain" and "Climb a mountain". This seems sort of vague, until you see how to use Te form with OTHER grammar pieces. Such as 〜ている meaning (Ing). You wouldn't say "To Climbing", it's "Climbing", the action ITSELF, in progress. Or 〜てすみませんでした, meaning "To be sorry for X action". You wouldn't say "I'm sorry for to yell", you'd say "I'm sorry for (the act of) yelling". It's literally just the act, and what surrounds it adds its context. Te form is used in so many different grammar pieces, that I can't explain all of them. But if you keep the idea of dropping the "to" from the dictionary form, you're pretty close to it's true meaning. Then just use it how it's used normally in different grammar pieces!
How much did it cost for 3 months course with extra fees but without accommodations?
I never did 3 months, I did one month, and then I'm doing a year. But in the first 3 months I can say it was worth waaay more than I paid for it.
Hey Chad. This is an excellent review and really helpful to me. I'm considering going to Genki either in Fukuoka or Tokyo. I was wondering as you said, how much Kanji does the school cover in Beginner two level and into Intermediate level? Just 80 Kanji doesn't sound great. Also I'm interested in intensive Japanese learning for 3-6 months, rather than culture as I know Japan well. Do you think Genki is a good fit?
Genki's culture classes are opt in's so you're good, the focus is language. Also, their kanji studying is their weakest link for sure. If you want good kanji studying you'll have to do it on your own :/ But it's still possible, I do it and most students study kanji on their own. Genki can hardly be beat for the full language package however. It's got it's rough bits but honestly even with my problems I wouldn't go to any other school.
Chad - cheers thanks for the information. I saw they have a couple of weekly Kanji classes on the website, so hopefully that will help also. Probably I'll sign up with Genki in Tokyo or Fukuoka soon!
Those classes are taught volunteer by college students, again, you'll need to study on your own haha that being said it's not hard, and you'll still be using them every single day so you'll get better, faster. But there really isn't anyways to seriously study kanji at this school currently.
+Chad Zimmerman cool thanks for your advice - really helpful.
+Chad Zimmerman cool thanks for your advice - really helpful.
Hi Chad. Have you heard of JCLI 日本語学校?
I'm looking to do 3 months at a language school in Japan and this one has the best price (that I've found so far). It's half the cost of three months at other schools, like GenkiJACs, that I've looked into.
Wondering if you have heard of it? It sounds really good.
I actually haven't, but if the price difference is that high my assumption is it's targeted towards eastern language speakers and not western (there's a lot of schools cheaper than Genki and usually they have little to zero English support). However if you enjoy your time there let me know how it goes!
Thanks for the info, I've decided to go with GenkiJACS. Because they are more flexible, as it they make it easy to come back and study with them and for different length of time. Thanks for making all of these videos about GenkiJACS, otherwise I might not have found out about them during my research!
Hello ! I know this is an old video but I hope you can answe. So in January,I'm leaving for Tokyo and staying there for 4 months.I will be studying in the same school than you did and I was wondering if you could give me some advice. I'm staying with a family and it might never away from the school, is the metro easy to use ? And how expensive it is ? Also I'm afraid that everyone at the school will speak English and I really want to try to speak only Japanese.How did you meet the locals ? Anyway that's all , thanks for the video 😊
So I didn't go to the tokyo campus I went to the southern one, but Tokyo's railways are almost all bilingual in English so you should be fine!
Everyone at my school basically spoke their own languages outside of class too.. so please check out my recent video on how I made friends in Japan without knowing much Japanese :) I think you'll find it helpful!!
@@ThatsMyChad oh thanks, you answered so fast 😊 I will go and check it out !
@@kenzaa1717 I live to serve! IF you ever need more help just comment and I'll do my best to help :)
Would you recommend this program for someone who knows little to no Japanese? I've been searching for a good study abroad program and I'd only be able to go for a month so I want to make sure it's worth my time. Also did you make friends with this program? It sounds intimidating to be living alone in a foreign city where you have no friends or family
I actually recommend this place only to beginners. It's probably got the best beginner program I've ever personally been apart of. But don't do it from intermediate onwards. I have lots of Japanese friends I met outside the program so I never had a problem. I honestly didn't want to make friends with other people at the school because they only use English. If I'm paying money to be in Japan and learn the language I want to only use it. So I just made a lot of local friends and everyday after school I'd immediately leave and go skate with them or fish or something.
Hi Chad! Were there teenagers in Fukuoka school?
And did you apply for the pop/traditional culture courses or was it solely on standard course?
Bila Spamming I only met 3 people under 18 in the whole 7 months, and standard!
Chad Zimmerman that's a relief. Also, does Genkijacs do weekly tests where it determines if you should move up a level or not? Or is it conducted differently?
They only do it when you first get there or if you feel like you've unfairly been placed at that level. It's really hard to prove that you can move up imo.
Where'd you get that shirt lol it's lit
It's a softbank hawk's jersey! I got this one used from a book-off in Tenjin, it was like ¥500.
what is you goal?
just asking
That just kind of depends, I know I want to pass N2 by December though!
ありがとう！
Did you have housing a housing accommodation thru Genkijacs before you got to Japan? I'm worried about landlords letting me rent as a foreigner.
It's certainly easier to go with the school, however the prices are higher than if you can speak enough Japanese to find your own accommodation. That being said a lot of landlords won't rent short term to foreigners for decent prices, so if you're not confident in being able to navigate the situation, I'd stick with Genki ^_^
+Chad Zimmerman Thanks
Just by looking at the title and your face I could tell it was going to be a rant
You know me toooo well haha
is that a hicky?