Japanese Language/Studies Applicants for 2012

When did you hear from Brookes? They haven't even acknowledged my application :/

Oioi fellow Jap applicants! I'm the only person to ever apply for Japanese from my college, so I'd love some friends! ( As desperate as that sounds).

Any Ghibli fans? I own every single one

Howl's Moving Castle is my favourite Ghibli

That's my favourite too.

<3
I have a Howl plushie my friend made, 'cause I love him so much.
And I make and sell fluffy little soot gremlin plushies. It's a kickass film.

Aww sounds cute
Only a few shops near me sell studio ghibli plushies, mainly Totoro, but they're really expensive
I'd love to be able to make them myself but i'm not very good at crafts.

I'm not sure what my favourite Ghibli is, but Laputa, Howl's Moving Castle and Nausicaa are up there. Whispers of the Heart is a nice film too, shame the director died so young, he could have made some excellent films if that was anything to go by.

Totoro ones are ridiculous, I've seen teeny ones for like £30 u_u

Obviously my lil' guy isn't the fanciest, but he's so adorable!~

And here's a soot gremlin with weird eyes, but it's the prototype. ^_^ He was just made using fur I had lying around (as a cosplayer, I hoard fabric) and a pattern made from a juggling ball.

Cute! You've inspired me to try to have a go myself! I might go and buy some cheap fabric at the weekend. Although mine will probably turn out awful.

Do it!~
It's hard to make a soot gremlin turn out awful. x3 It's sewing a circle, but doesn't matter if it isn't perfect 'cause all the fluffyness covers it up!


Also... I knew the Japanese were crazy. but.. this is a mind**** and a half. 0_o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QbAXXXOJF8&feature=related

Nothing beats this song for mindF-ery http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzC4hFK5P3g I hear it in my dreams...

Congrats!

Oioi fellow Jap applicants! I'm the only person to ever apply for Japanese from my college, so I'd love some friends! ( As desperate as that sounds).

Applied to Oxford, Sheffield, Leeds and SOAS ( Straight Japanese) and Japanese and Politics at SOAS.

I've only heard back from Oxford, SOAS and Sheffield, and i'm about to send off my written work for Oxford, has anyone got any examples of what they're sending off as written work? I was going to send off two English essays...

I'm not into J-pop but I love Japanese film and literature. I probably don't know what I've got myself in for with the language but I love it, and it's my dream to learn it.

The only language qualification I have is a German GCSE ( C ), but there were staffing issues which have been noted.

Any Ghibli fans? I own every single one

Hello people, future Japanese students

I have just started my course at Newcastle Uni a couple of weeks ago, it's Japanese and Cultural Studies and I can very much recommend this course!! You get six hours of Japanese language a week (which is plenty!!) and the rest of the time you spend on optional modules.

I'd just like encourage people to study Japanese, it's such a beautiful language, just make sure to learn your Hiragana and Katakana before you come to Uni, it'll help you a great deal.

If anyone has any questions, please feel free to ask!!

hitokage ^-^

Hey there, I'm applying for Japanese too:
Japanese at Oxford, English and Japanese at Oxford Brookes, International business and Japanese at Birmingham and Japanese at SOAS.

Not heard from Brookes yet Heard from SOAS today though (at long last), they even decided to send me the same email twice

Same as someone mentioned above, don't really know what to send for written work, I'm doing R.S, English Literature and I.T A levels and have two really good R.S essays, but don't know whether I should be sending one English and one R.S (this is for Oxford).

So, any ideas?