Dropping Japanese? (1 Viewer)

[ital101]

The Dilemma:
I don't know if I should drop Japanese.

Expected 2009 subjects:
MX1, MX2, English Ad, Economics, Physics and maybe Japanese Continuers.

Reasons for:

• I have a love-hate relationship with it
• It takes up too much time to study
• I'm not good with memorising languages
• I can read and listen fine, but I can't speak well or compose my own Japanese.
• I'd rather be spending time doing Maths

Reasons against:

• My teacher thinks I can do very well in it (she recommended me to do Jap. Extension)
• I'm coming Top 3 in the class
• The scaling is good.
• I'm planning to pick up 4U maths and if I'm not good at it, I can drop it and have my Japanese to fall back on.
• If I drop Japanese I'll have 10 Units and that's really risky because my Physics teacher is a bit dodgy.
• But then again, I'll have more time to focus on other subjects without it and EX1.

What do you think?

Any comments/suggestions are appreciated

Drop physics, keep Japanese. If your teacher is 'dodgy' and taking it is 'risky', drop physics...I'm surprised it wasn't screamingly (lol ) obvious to you in the first place. Good luck. Keep Jap, it's worthwhile...it's THE language to learn for business/economics (not meaning you should take Economics if you take Jap, but AFTER school, when you go into the employment sector, and if you have a Business career, e.g. sole trader bus or accountant etc., Jap will be of a great help).


Sayonara (correct my spelling?)

- Rico

 

[Aplus]

The Dilemma:
I don't know if I should drop Japanese.

Expected 2009 subjects:
MX1, MX2, English Ad, Economics, Physics and maybe Japanese Continuers.

Reasons for:

• I have a love-hate relationship with it
• It takes up too much time to study
• I'm not good with memorising languages
• I can read and listen fine, but I can't speak well or compose my own Japanese.
• I'd rather be spending time doing Maths

Reasons against:

• My teacher thinks I can do very well in it (she recommended me to do Jap. Extension)
• I'm coming Top 3 in the class
• The scaling is good.
• I'm planning to pick up 4U maths and if I'm not good at it, I can drop it and have my Japanese to fall back on.
• If I drop Japanese I'll have 10 Units and that's really risky because my Physics teacher is a bit dodgy.
• But then again, I'll have more time to focus on other subjects without it and EX1.

What do you think?

Any comments/suggestions are appreciated

Well, you're currently ranked 3rd in Continuers and your teacher did recommend you to do Ext. (which scales well). As you also said, "my Physics teacher is a bit dodgy." I wouldn't drop it if I were you, but my response is quite biased (I regret choosing Modern History over Japanese)

 

[Yamiyo]

I am totally biased against Japanese, and I thought its scaling wasn't that good. But look. If you do want to continue Japanese, you're already good at it, and if your weaknesses are speaking and writing, you've got plenty of time to work on them. By the time the speaking exam rolls around, you'll have done the same test 5 times, and should have had enough experience that even without having memorised answers you'll have an idea of what you want to say to each question. Having said that, if you don't like the subject, you won't have any motivation to do any better, and if you don't like it now, it won't get any better (IMO).

 

[Doctor Jolly]

Thanks for all the comments guys! I think I'll keep it