Reviews

The focus on conversation was great for improving my speaking skills.

The most productive is during class time and Japanese conversation practice. I can’t think of a least productive one.

Pair work, drills and tests were helpful for me. Drilling really instilled what we had just learned, pair work was helping in creating natural Japanese conversations, and tests showed where my weak points were.

Reading club gave me an opportunity to work on reading comprehension, which was an area I was severely lacking going into the program.

The time I got to spend with classmates was the most interesting part. I used a lot of the Japanese I learned.

The high school exchange event was very interesting and it was very fun to talk to high schoolers and see what they were interested in about the outside world.

In any case where a new grammar point was used and explained by the teacher in class, it would often stick. Then as teachers use these new points outside of class in conversation, these new points usually lock in quite strongly.

Talking with the other students was good practice.

The いつかどこかで textbook that we use for Level 3 was the most interesting and helpful in my opinion.

I feel like the most productive aspects were the example conversations and breaking down the pieces within them.