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   BuggyBY
   

   http://www.newglobal.co.jp/manga-japanese/
   Brilliant way to extract money from KAWAII DESU NE self-styled otaku rich foreigners, or actually a valid and useful approach to language teaching?

   They claim to be able to get you to pass JLPT Level 1 after two years of teaching, which would make their course twice as intensive as Europe's toughest (and best (nope, not biased at all)) university Japanese class, taught by the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Quite an impressive claim, and yet their "JLPT pass rates" page suggests that as much as 20 out of 41 students on the two-year course passed Level 1 in 2004.

   Still, 700k yen for the first year, 600k for the second? That kind of money could get a British A-Level holder fees-wise completely through his bachelor's degree course!

   
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   http://www.newglobal.co.jp/manga-japanese/01.htm

   これは「スゴイカワイイデスネ」自称ヲタの金持ち外人を搾り取る目覚しい金儲け計画なのか、それでも妥当で有用な言語教育方法なんだろうか?

   あそこで日本語を2年間だけ学んだら、1級の日本語能力試験に合格できるようになるとやつらが自慢しているんだが、それはヨーロッパ一のロンドン大学東洋アフリカ言語文化研究学院の最も集約的な日本語コースの二倍速だぞ。そいつは見事な主張だが、日能試結果ページによると、確かに平成16年の一級日本語能力試験に41人の受験者の中で20人も合格したらしい。大したもんだ。

   それにしても、学費は初年度合計70万円で、2年目もまた60万円だと？そんなお金じゃ、イギリスの高校卒業生が大学の3年間バチェラーコースの合計学費の全ても払えるんだよ！

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   BuggyBY
   

   Not sure where I first saw the banner ad that led me to this page, but the "Manga Japanese" aspect intrigues me. Their more conventional courses seem to use reasonable mainstream textbooks like Minna no Nihongo (as opposed to their example of 金田一少年の事件簿 (aka Kindaichi Case Files to English speakers) for their manga course). Even in their mainstream course the pace is very fast indeed, as they claim to get through Minna no Nihongo vols I and II in only 3 months each - it took the Accelerated introductory Japanese class at SOAS over a year to get through both!

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   BuggyBY
   

   Halp, the forums seem to have swallowed the opening post, showing only my reply (or is it just my browser that's wonky?). It can still be found over at 4-ch.

   Posted 7 years ago # Quote
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   Artefact
   

   BuggyBY said:
   Halp, the forums seem to have swallowed the opening post, showing only my reply (or is it just my browser that's wonky?). It can still be found over at 4-ch.

   My apologies. It got swallowed as spam - the filter is still learning how to handle the forums (a lot of spam which looks superficially similar is posted)...

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   psycholoner
   

   Is that 2 90min classes per day, every single day? If it was than that would be intense! I've been studying from gr9-12 in school and from what I know, I've been told I could probably borderline the JLPT lvl 3.
   I wonder what that course would be like...

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