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Hi there
This is for me and my friends scattered in the East and West coast. We love the language and have done a very basic level. We've decided to take it up more seriously.

Can you recommend a serious program and a good school to learn Japanese in New York, and in or around San Francisco bay area, San Jose, San Mateo etc.

Thanks everyone!

rosetta stone?

I graduated from high school recently (not taking those high classes like chemistry, biology, and algebra 2)

I was a poor student due to the fact that I was a stupid kid trying to have fun all the time and had no guidance from anybody to give me advice on what I should of been doing instead of messing around. I had a low GPA during my sophomore/junior year but a good one during my senior year

I recently been honorably discharged from the military (finished top of my class in every school I attended)

money is not a issue at all for myself since I been saving my money ever since day 1 of my military career

I took a little bit of extracurricular activities…like explorers program, language courses, and community service

I did not even take my SAT's yet but I keep hearing that the standards of being accepted to SDSU is not really high.

I am not considering attending a JC or community college because I live 1/2 a mile away from SDSU's campus, but if I have to…I will
I wish I could of went back and achieved high while I could when I was back in high school..

any advice is highly appreciated
I don't care about taking honor classes or anything..I just want to attend SDSU for all my pre-requisites.

any advice is highly appreciated

SDSU has really tightened admissions. You now need about a 3.4 to get in. A lot of people are applying. It is hard to get in, unless you are a community college transfer. It's a popular, impacted campus.

You said: "I did not even take my SAT's yet but I keep hearing that the standards of being accepted to SDSU is not really high."

They're not as stringent as the ivies but you still need good grades! And yes, you need your SATs to get into SDSU unless you are a cc transfer.

They do not take lower division transfer students. You must have a minum of 60 transferable units. They won't accept a transfer with any less, unless you were under the dual-admit system that they got rid of a couple of years ago.

And Bill, it isn't an easy school. The professors have graduated from fine schools and they are excellent at what they do. They expect a lot.

Of course, people who don't go there wouldn't know that and they just assume that just because it's not a holier-than-thou public ivy that the students don't have to work hard which is FALSE (I know you didn't mean it like that Bill, I have seen a lot of your posts and they are fair).

My goal schools would include NYU, Carnegie Mellon, Tufts, Boston University….

I'm a junior right now, and this year I took two AP courses, Calculus BC and English Language. Next year I plan on taking five more, and I was wondering if this was good enough to get into any of the above listed colleges……and maybe an ivy league like Dartmouth….

I know there are other factors in the admissions process, but I just want to know whether the AP courses I'm taking are good enough – next year I'm taking Spanish Language, Statistics, English Literature, Enviromental Science, and Psychology.

my sis is going to college and she is a senior… she only took 2 her 1st year…2 her second and third and 5 her forth so i think Ur going good ….it would depend on how many u took Ur freshman and sophomore years and she took all of those classes but 1……Environmental science….but id take as many as u can and still be able to handle school alone….so keep up the good work and aim high

The University of Chicago/International House

Att: EF International Language Schools

1414 East 59th Street

Chicago, IL 60637

Hi i need a hotel as near as possible this address! Thanks in advance

The guy telling you to go to the South LSD Ramada is right, it's the only hotel near the University…and you don't want to stay there. The University is in a nice little neighborhood surrounded by some pretty crappy neighborhoods so you don't really want to be walking around too much if you don't know the area too well. I mean, don't let the neighborhood scare you off, Hyde Park is very nice but you do have to learn how to…I guess live there.

Besides, I work at a hotel downtown and I know that the hotel rates downtown are only about $50 more than the Ramada, so maybe look into the Crown Plaza or Hyatt Regency, they're both downtown close to the trains (CTA & Metra) which will take you directly to the University.

they say around 60 or 70% of peple speak Spanish in Miami, some people say that this percentatge will increase with the new immigrants and they also say Spanish is going to become more and more important. Others say new generations of cubans and latinos use English as they first language, and they speak English with their friends…at school. this theory will imply that English would eventually be the main language of the city. What you think is going to happen in the future?
There were two people comlpaining about immigrants and I think they have the right to speak, unfortunately somehow their answers have been removed, my best answer goes to them.

I think the importance of Spanish will continue to increase. The figure of 60-70% Spanish-speaking doesn’t mean that only 30-40% speak English. There are many bilingual people, and probably more people speak English than Spanish. In such an environment, people do not have to drop their Spanish in order to learn English. And meanwhile, many businesspeople and formerly monolingual people are learning Spanish. It is a truly bilingual city and that is a good thing! Monolingualism is a curable disease.

for beginers.

"Jap"? Were you born in 1920? The word is Japanese.