Hi all. I’m currently at a language school in Tokyo (not naming for now) and I’m here for the next 4 weeks having almost finished my 1st week. Unfortunately I’m having a bad time. I’m around N3 and halfway through Quartet 1, but the head teacher of the language school decided to put me in a class way below my ability (we’re doing grammar patterns I learned 2 years ago, right at the start of Minna no Nihongo 2) and won’t let me change to a higher class. She’s decided I don’t use the grammar patterns in my speaking enough (based on a couple of 10 minute conversations) and therefore I need to study them again. I even got my current Japanese teacher in the UK to email explaining my situation and they still refused to put me in a higher class.
I don’t know what to do. I only found out I’d be in this class a week before coming here. I’m not getting much out of my classes because they’re a way lower level and most of my classmates use English a lot outside of class but I’m stuck now, on the other side of the world from my home country, and this has ruined my confidence enough that I dont have the energy or will to go out and talk to people in Japanese outside of class. I found out at the induction that if I cancel the classes I also cancel my accommodation so I would be without anywhere to stay if I left the language school.
Any advice on what to do, who to talk to or just how to make the best of this shitty situation would be amazing because I’m really unhappy right now and to be honest I’m at the point of wanting to catch the next flight home (if I could afford it).Thanks if you can help ❤️
by stellwyn