Accelerated Japanese class too hard. Feel frustrated.

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1. If it’s too hard it’s too hard. There is nothing bad about doing it at your own pace. Don’t feel bad about it

2. Where are you taking it and what class? Just curious.

   I also agree that you need to find the pace that works for you and your circumstances.

3. Self-study is the way to go! I find that very few things are better learned in a school environment if you constantly find yourself burnt out, especially if it’s for a grade, and this is coming from an engineering student.

4. Well, I don’t know anything about the classes you are doing, but an “accelerated” program is just that – faster than usual. And so its only suited to students who work well at that speed, and with the style of class.

   If it’s too fast for you, or even just too much per day or week, then use something else. No shame.

5. Personally I can’t have a rigorous schedule like that because well life. I just make sure to show up at least 4-5 days a week with studying but some days that’s only 1-2 hours other days 4-5 hours

6. Yeah a lot of classrooms do this. I would absolutely not want an accelerated class haha.

   I don’t know about your class, but one thing a lot of teachers don’t tell people (even if they know this, social forces keep their hands tied) is that about 97% of what students usually do in class should be up to/less than 25% of what you’re doing overall. EDIT: I cannot reply to the person who replied to me for some reason telling me every professor says this but I am not saying students need to study a lot outside of class, I am saying students need to get 2 hours of comprehensible input specifically, and, eventually, one hour of casual conversation, for every hour of study they are doing in class. Teachers often do tell their students they need more study, but I mean specifically most teachers do not tell students “I am only doing a very small part of what you need to do to learn a language with you, the majority of what you need to do does not resemble what we do in class in any way.”

   75% of your language study should be reading, listening, or speaking to content that is at your level or lower, or you will just forget everything and feel… the way you do right now haha.

   In other words, assuming it’s a lot of new info being introduced each session, to keep up with what’s going on in class perfectly you’d have to get an extra 36 hours of immersion a week outside of class. I’m sure a lot of what is in class is review so not literally 36 hours, but basically classrooms go way too fast introducing new stuff and expect you to remember it when the only way you would actually remember everything is if you were immersing in the language.

7. Why do you need to learn Japanese so quickly? Just relax, and enjoy. Make steady progress and just do it because it makes you happy.

8. Why are you accelerating?