Phillip Buschang on KCP
I wish I could have had teachers who paid this much attention to students during my high school and university in the U.S.
The KCP program was terrific! Everybody was very nice and helpful. When I first arrived I really couldn’t speak Japanese, but with all of the support from KCP (especially Tanaka San and Nakajima San!), I still felt relatively comfortable. They would do everything possible to help us in school and while living in Japan. Everyone genuinely cared.
Learning Japanese in class | KCP Flickr
Going to study abroad in a foreign country can be pretty scary, especially for the students who can’t really speak the language. But with KCP you don’t really have to worry about it. I was relieved to find a lot of other American students in my position. In the beginning, we all stuck together pretty tight: we would all go out after school together to explore Tokyo. After about a month we started speaking enough Japanese to go out with some of the other classmates who weren’t American. This was fun—I started making a lot of new friends and improving in Japanese a lot quicker, since it is the only common language. Actually, I still keep in touch with some classmates by writing emails in Japanese, and I even traveled around with one for about a month after school had finished. With the KCP program I learned Japanese surprisingly fast, made a lot of good friends, and greatly enjoyed my experience of a foreign country and culture.
I would definitely recommend KCP to anyone, whether absolute beginner or almost fluent, who is thinking about doing language study in Japan.