I’m about to finish my fourth semester at language school. I started at 中級 level and am currently taking my school’s second 上級 level class. Each semester, I’ve felt like my actual level is at least a level below what I’ve been studying. After three semesters, it finally caught up to me–this semester the pile of stuff I don’t know/stuff I learned but have forgotten has gotten so high that I haven’t been able to keep up. I bombed the final test and will in all likelihood fail the class. Not too broken up about it–having time to review things instead of continuing to endless pile things into my brain might be more beneficial to how I learn best. My worry is that when it comes time to switch to a work visa, will failing language school be seen as a red flag? or is attendance the only thing that will be looked at by immigration?
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I think as long as you can show progress (e.g. JLPT certificates) immigration won’t mind. Learning speeds are very subjective anyway.
Attendance though, is non negotiable.
Just go talk with your teacher in charge, actually the language school hope you can stay as long as the immigration bureau allows
I chose to hold myself back a term, they put me in a class that started at Chapter 20(?) of Genki since I could have a conversation with them in the interview. They didn’t realize my grammar and kanji was so horrible, so that ended up not working out so well. It was the right decision for me, I ended up building a much stronger foundation because of it.