"First you've got to be sure about your goals," says a person who's been through it. Japanese language schools are set up with different purposes, for people on short-term visits, for businessmen learning conversation, for students hoping to enter college, and for Westerners who can't read Chinese characters, so the selection must be done with care.
慎選學校沒有別的途徑，多打聽、要細心、循正常管道……，「首先要確定目標」，一名過來人指出，日本語言班數量多、種類分歧，為短期居留、商業會話、升學，及專為不懂漢字的西方人開的各有不同，選擇時要特別注意。