{"id":1195,"date":"2017-10-03T15:07:26","date_gmt":"2017-10-03T06:07:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/?p=1195"},"modified":"2019-09-24T17:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T08:44:44","slug":"%e5%9b%b0%e9%9b%a3%e3%81%ab%e9%81%ad%e3%81%a3%e3%81%a6%e3%82%82%e3%80%81%e5%89%8d%e3%81%ab%e9%80%b2%e3%82%80%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8%e3%81%8c%e5%a4%a7%e4%ba%8b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/%e5%9b%b0%e9%9b%a3%e3%81%ab%e9%81%ad%e3%81%a3%e3%81%a6%e3%82%82%e3%80%81%e5%89%8d%e3%81%ab%e9%80%b2%e3%82%80%e3%81%93%e3%81%a8%e3%81%8c%e5%a4%a7%e4%ba%8b\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of going on, despite the difficulties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Gioi <\/strong>(Vietnam)<br \/> Nihon University Graduate School, Science and Engineering Faculty<\/p>\r\n<hr >\r\n<p>I started learning Japanese before graduating from University, as I was already thinking of coming to Japan to study. I researched a lot about Japanese language schools. Luckily, the school I attended in Vietnam partners with ARC. At the time, I attended ARC presentation session and learned more about the school. What was particularly interesting to me, since I was planning to do my graduate studies in Japan, was the availability of a Graduate School Preparation Class. That was made me go for ARC.  Before deciding, I researched for other schools too, but reviews on ARC classes and teachers were good. Now that I have graduated, I can confirm I did the right choice.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/><!--more--><\/p>\r\n<p>I studied Japanese in Vietnam for about six months before coming to Japan. When I arrived, I could not speak a word and every day life was difficult. I performed poorly in the placement test and, as a result, got placed in class 1, the lowest level. Regretting the test results, I worked very hard in those first three months, studying up to five hours per day on my own at home. Then, at the end of the first school term, I took the jump up test and entered directly to class 3. The ARC studying environment is very comfortable, and teachers are kind. They always helped me with any issue I had at the time.<\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>One year after entering ARC, I passed the N2 level of JLPT, then decided to join the Graduate School Preparation Class. There, I learned about the admission process, how to write a research plan, did admission interview simulations and also took mock lectures. <\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>I am now attending Graduate School, but when I started, I was surprised by how hard lessons were. All my classmates are Japanese and I struggle to keep up with them. Both lessons and the Japanese professors use are difficult, but professors and classmates help me a lot. My research is progressing smoothly. <\/p>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\r\n<p>Every one faces difficulties, but what really matters is to never give up.<\/p>\r\n<p><br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/\u5199\u771f-3-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1246\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gioi (Vietnam) Nihon University Graduate School, Science and Engineering Faculty I started learning Japanese b&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1245,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interview"],"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/CAOVANGIOI.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1195"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2731,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1195\/revisions\/2731"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arc.ac.jp\/Tokyo\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}