FALL semester and the Year 2014 is now concluding!

Time Flies before up-dating the information!!
The final examination week has now ended and the grade distribution of Merciless GTS is as follows:

JAPANESE 1100 (Culture & Civilization)     3A's        1C           5F's
JAPANESE 1101（Elementary I 1st sem)  18A's   11B's   5C's   3D's  8F's
JAPANESE 1102 (Elementary II 2nd sem)   4A's   3B's   3C's   2D's   1F
JAPANESE 2201 (Intermediate I 3rd sem)   4A's    2B's    5C's        5F's

Well, I produced quite a few F's as usual but the number does not tell a lie though I tried hard.

Spring Schedule is now available.
JAPANESE 1101 (Elementary I)    T/Th 9-11am       M/W 7-9pm    
JAPANESE 1102 (Elementary II)   M/W 10-12noon   T/Th 7-9pm
JAPANESE 2201 (Interm. I)          M/W 1-3pm
JAPANESE 2202 (Interm. II)         M/W 5-7pm

Spring Break Trip to Japan has 4 students in it now and a few more are expected to come!

3 months have passed so quickly this fall

A few months really passed quickly while adjusting myself with some new stuff!
No daily classes any more and it seems that twice a week format will stay for a while.

Japanese culture club is active and its meeting has been held every Friday afternoon.
Officers were appointed for the foreign language honor society Alpha Mu Gamma.

Spring semester registration has begun and Japanese 1101 is filling up in a good manner.
So classes in Spring are:

Japanese 1101       Mon/Wed 7pm-9pm      Tue/Thu 9am-11am

Japanese 1102       Tue/Thu   7pm-9pm      Mon/Wed 10am-12noon

Japanese 2201       Mon/Wed   1pm-3pm

Japanese 2202       Mon/Wed   5pm-7pm

Japanese 1100 (Global INMP) culture class     Tue   12noon-3pm

GTS/JCC Dinner night has been continuing on first Friday of every month.

So there will be the dinner night on 11/7 and 12/5 this year!

ALL the planned Classes got enough students successfully and move forward!

Japanese 1100 (Culture and Civilization Class) finally got 10 students to be ready to move forward!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Language classes are all in good shape and as a whole more than 20% increase in number of students.

Japanese 1101
MW 10am class  Full,  TTh 10am class Full   MW 5pm class 18    TTh 7pm class 12
Total 79

Japanese 1102
MW 1pm class 17

Japanese 2201
MW 7pm class 17

I am very excited to see this increase!

Fall Semester isquickly approaching!

As of 8/12.
JAPANESE 1101
MW  10-12noon    20
        5-7pm        11
TTh  10-12noon    25 (FULL)
        7-9pm          5 (needs a few more)

 JAPANESE 1102
MW  1-3pm     16

 JAPANESE 2201
MW  7-9pm     13

JAPANESE 1100 culture and Civilization
Tuesday  12-3pm     6 (needs a few more)    

Japanese 1100 Culture/Civilization class needs a bit more!

This is the very first time to offer Japanese 1100 in fall during the daytime.  So far 6 students registered and I am hoping to get 4,5 more.

In this class, we will watch some feature movies as well as many video clips to understand underlining cultural thoughts and customs of Japan.

Everyone is welcome!

Language classes look very balanced and good.

Japanese 1101
MW 10-12-------16
MW  5-7  -------11
TTh 10-12-------22
TTh  7-9 --------5 (needs a few more!!!!!!!!!!)

Japanese 1102
MW 1-3 --------16  (Wow!)

Japanese 2201
MW 7-9 --------10

2014-2015 Academic Year is just around the corner! Register now!

New Academic Year is coming up soon.  This academic year is kind of trial to break the past customs.

There will be no daily classes this year.  All the classes will be meeting twice a week for two hours!

Available language classes and their current number of registrants.

Japanese 1101 (1st semester)
Monday and Wednesday 10am-11:50am 15
                                   5pm- 6:50pm   7
Tuesday and Thursday   10am-11:50am 22
                                   7pm- 8:50pm   5

Japanese 1102 (2nd semester)
Monday and Wednesday   1pm- 2:50pm 14

Japanese 2201 (3rd semester)
Monday and Wednesday    7pm-8:50pm 11


Japanese Culture and Civilization class
Japanese 1100
Tuesday                         12:00noon-2:50pm  6

Classes at a moment seem to be good.

Every student of GTS from Japan arrived in CHicago safely!

All Nippon Airways brought every student back to Chicago safely and now everyone is facing THE routine with some missing feeling!

Life goes on and Japan will never go away from us, so let's go back to Japan in one way or another!

Fall semester is approaching and all Japanese classes listed on the schedule look good.

I hope more people register next couple of weeks right before the beginning of another great academic year 2014-2015!

Spring Trip to Japan is waiting for you between 3/27/2015-4/5/2015.

Summer Study Abroad is waiting for you between 6/25/2015-7/30/2015.