Anyone who has experience or knows of the following language schools? (Tokyo)

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1. I see so many of these language school posts so frequently. Realistically, once you are ~N4 I would say most of your gains are from studying outside the classroom. Realistically it doesn’t matter which one you choose as at best they will serve as an IRL version of Anki with you being given material to learn. What really matters is that at home outside of class that you are learning a lot of new stuff every day.

   I think with language schools past N4 you get very diminishing returns since at that point learning vocab and grammar alongside reading or listening to native content is where the rest of your gains usually come from.

2. I’ve found [this website](https://www.nisshinkyo.org/search/kana.php?lng=2) (Association for the Promotion of Japanese Language Education) pretty useful to get an idea of various schools I was previous considering.

   It gave me an idea of the size of the school (number of students, and number of teachers), as well as a general idea which countries they were from. I basically did not consider schools where most of their students (90% ++) were all from one country only…

   They also report their JLPT pass rates, and where their students went to after graduation; but I think that is more a reflection of the students, rather than the school or their teaching methodology.

   Despite all that, I ended up going with the school that was closest to where I lived – only because I really hate commuting.