My DC in year 7 has been very keen to learn Japanese or Chinese for a while now. However school have literally just informed us that we have a week to decide whether to drop one of the 2 European languages currently being studied by all year 7 students and take Japanese for GCSE. I believe that all students have to take 2 languages at GCSE.
They have to make this decision without ever having tried any Japanese. Any thoughts? DC has high verbal IQ but poor handwriting so I have no idea how that might impact on learning Japanese. Are there any characteristics making you likely to succeed at Japanese other than the obvious of really wanting to do so.
I believe that previous year groups have not had to make this decision until mid year 8 but school want students to study a language for 4 years before taking the new style GCSE so the decision has taken us by surprise with very little time to look into it.
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Choosing to study Japanese GCSE
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japanesegcse · 15/03/2017 14:56
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