Since when has Japanese had the best learning community evar? It may be very friendly online, but in my face-to-face experiences public courses have fallen painfully short—I’ve been studying independently for only a year and a half and talk circles around AP students. Although they do still have an edge on me in such fields as “ordering meals in restaurants” and “presenting business cards”, they really have no functional knowledge of the language at all.
Since when has Japanese had the best learning community evar? It may be very friendly online, but in my face-to-face experiences public courses have fallen painfully short—I’ve been studying independently for only a year and a half and talk circles around AP students. Although they do still have an edge on me in such fields as “ordering meals in restaurants” and “presenting business cards”, they really have no functional knowledge of the language at all.