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I'm in my second year of Japanese at the university level, so next term I will be in Japanese 203. I hope to get a minor in it and travel to Hokkaido University in summer 2008, same as Olympics! Although that's in China. >_> ANYway, my sensei that I have had all this year is Nishio-sensei. I really like her, but she sometimes is inconsiderate and a little quirky. I like her, though. :3 Oh, and I go to University of Oregon.

I don't go to a Japanese class, my Japanese friends teach me. =P

How's that going?

I plan on going to college in Japan starting in Fall. I'll be taking up a Japanese class while I'm there. I'll be level 1 of course (^^) <3

I'm planning to take Japanese II next year.
Although I don't have a Japanese class as of yet,
my future teacher would be called Mr. Schreiber.

Yes, there are really colleges in Japan that offer classes specifically geared toward foreigners who want to learn Japanese. blaugh

Here's a few, though you should look to see if your specific university has a sister university in Japan. My sister university in Japan is Yamagata. If you can find one for your university then the exchange would be better.

http://www.wle-japan.com/
http://www.studyjapan.go.jp/en/toj/toj05e.html
http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/exchange_student/program.html
http://www.ciee.org/program_search/program_detail.aspx?program_id=55
http://www.jwu.ac.jp/gn/

If you're looking for a specific region you'd like to do the exchange with, I would recommend just typing in a few keywords in google and see what you can come up with. 3nodding

I'm in Japanese 4 right now (高校三年生なよ). We've had two teachers so far in the program, Cunningham-sensei (not Japanese, but studied in college and worked in the JET program for something like 5 years, then went back for another 2) and Smith-sensei.

Cunningham-sensei worked us hard, man, but by God, we learned Japanese. And not only that, but she made sure we kicked a** at Language Fair every year. (She even made me compete my sophomore year, when I wasn't taking Japanese because of schedule conflicts.)

But Cunningham-sensei left on maternity leave, and Smith-sensei only spent a year in Japan (at Sapporo Daigaku). He's certified to teach German (and was my German 2 teacher for one term) and Physics, so he mainly delegates teaching duties to US and makes us teach our classmates. He's an OK guy and a good German teacher, but not really a very good Japanese teacher. (At least not advanced Japanese, anyway. I don't talk with the kids in Japanese 2 very often, so I don't know what they think of him.)