{"id":1625,"date":"2022-09-03T22:09:49","date_gmt":"2022-09-04T02:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/?p=1625"},"modified":"2022-09-03T22:09:49","modified_gmt":"2022-09-04T02:09:49","slug":"kcjs-week-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2022\/kcjs-week-3\/","title":{"rendered":"KCJS Week 3"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">For this week, I want to talk about what we studied as a class in the 2nd year Japanese section. I remember thinking \u201cthere\u2019s no way we\u2019re approaching the end of Genki already\u2026\u201d<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">Thinking back on it now, it doesn\u2019t like seem as much as it felt like, but in 3 weeks we had covered 6 lessons. I found quickly found myself just as busy as I was during the mid semester grind at Williams. Granted I did have to do some catch up. The textbook for First-year Japanese at Williams is different than what a lot of other schools tend to use (Nakama rather than Genki). KCJS uses Genki 2, and though Nakama 1 and Genki 1 generally cover much of the same material, there are notable differences. By this point, I had taken notice that I knew different Kanji than my peers did, and perhaps fewer. Before the start of the program, and was surprised by how many Kanji in Genki 1 alone I didn\u2019t know (not to mention the portion of Genki 2 that students at their home universities covered during first year Japanese). Furthermore, my classmates seemed to know more about grammar than I did (I had to become familiar with about 2-3 lessons worth of grammar on top of homework and class work). It was a pretty tough adjustment, but I found that I didn\u2019t need to spend too much time on this catch up as I mainly learned and reinforced these points through immersion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">By the end of this week, it finally felt like I was on an even playing field. The following week, however, would come to be a new challenge for Genki and Nakama students alike\u2026<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For this week, I want to talk about what we studied as a class in the 2nd year Japanese section. I remember thinking \u201cthere\u2019s no way we\u2019re approaching the end of Genki already\u2026\u201d\u00a0 Thinking back on it now, it doesn\u2019t &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/summer-2022\/kcjs-week-3\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-summer-2022"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1625"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1626,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1625\/revisions\/1626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.williams.edu\/study-abroad-in-asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}