I’m an american army veteran. I really wanna go to language school without paying for it. I saw only 1 school that I could find that was a language school you could use the GI bill for. It’s in the kansai area and tbh I wanna go to tokyo. I messaged them just in case, but yeah. how likely do you think a school would be to listen to me if I asked them to apply for eligibility for the GI bill? It’d be somewhat of a process for them, but if I can lay the foundation for others at like a large language school like akamonkai or ISI, I think that’d be great. Plus I’m in no rush, so I can always wait for them to apply.
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There is ***ONE*** language school on the GI Bill list. One. Uno. Kansai College of Business and Languages.
That should tell you how likely they are to be willing to apply/how likely they are to be approved. Language schools aren’t run by dummies. If there was a snowball’s chance in hell of them making it through the process they would have done it already.
Plus, from one vet to another: Why would you want to waste your GI bill on a language school?
The GI Bill is probably the greatest benefit offered by the US gov, you can use it to literally go to any college in the world, why in god’s name would you use it to go to a language school? Just study something useful, get a real job, and go to Japan later. It’s not going anywhere.
>… language school to apply for eligibility to the American GI bill?
**DUDE!**
Apply to go to a real Japanese university as a Japanese **minor** ^{never ^never ^ever ^as ^major} and studying a “viable” major in IT, CS, CPA/Accounting, etc.
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PS:
Temple Univ. Japan is never, never, **NEVER** an option ^{except ^for ^getting ^a ^CPA}.
As /u/dalkyr82 said: Why would you want to waste your GI bill on a language school?
Go back to the US and get a degree that could land you a job in Japan. Minor in Japanese or take Japanese classes to up your language skills. A US degree is $$$$ — and if the government is gonna pay for that for you? Fucking take it. (I say this as someone with a hefty amount of student loans.) Otherwise, you’re throwing an amazing benefit away.
Easiest way to get to Japan with minimal to low-intermediate Japanese is software development and IT management. Go study that in America and then come to Japan. You’ll be MUCH happier — and you’ll have a degree.
Extremely unlikely. I had Waseda apply to the VA for their 1-year Intensive Japanese Language Program, and the VA rejected the application on the grounds that the program doesn’t offer a proper degree or certification.