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 Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 6:41 pm
I was planning to go to school in japan. I was wondering, do you have to re learn everything you learned here in america in japan? Well like, for example, I've learned Math and Science and etc. Therefore I don't know how to say like, Linear equations, slope, x-axis, periodic table, Californium, etc. in Japanese. So doc, whats my solution?
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Posted: Mon Mar 08, 2010 7:19 pm
I have no experience of this myself but I'm just giving my opinion if you wish to hear it.
You'd probably have to learn unless there's a teacher who can speak English and help you a bit but even then the teacher isn't going to be holding your hand for the whole time your there. But if your going to that country, you should learn the language. Adapt to your environment and don't expect your environment to adapt to you.
If anything use katakana and cheat with technical phrases.
カリフォルニーウム。
Ka-ri-fo-ru-ni-u-mu
Californium
（or something like that).
Correct me if I am wrong, I hear Japanese education is much tougher than North American education as I've heard their reports of suicides because of marks and what not in Japan.
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Posted: Mon Mar 15, 2010 12:05 pm
Considering that I had studied abroad in Japan (at college though, not HS), I can tell you that for the most part you won't have to relearn anything you don't already know. In fact, the best part of having classes in Japanese (or any other language for that matter) is that you get a front row seat in seeing how science or history works in another language. Sure, it might be tough at first (especially for history), but once you figure out what is going on (oh, they're finding the cosine of a triangle for example), then you get a chance to learn more vocab and figure out what things are called in another language.
I've taken business and history classes in Japanese, and considering I like history, it was really interesting to see how contemporary Japanese view world events in history and what certain events are called in Japanese.
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