Japanese in the IB

I'm starting the IB diploma this year, and I'm a little concerned about my language subject. I've heard that the IB Japanese teacher at my school is pretty bad at teaching, and as I'm pretty good at Japanese (straight A student) I don't want to miss out on marks in my final exam because of the quality of my teacher. I have two options - I either continue with Japanese as planned (at SL) and do as much self study as possible, or I can switch to Ab Initio French, which wouldn't be too difficult as I have some background in French. So my question is, is it worth the risk of continuing with Japanese or should I play it safe and switch to French?

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fatiana

hmm this is a difficult decision to make..it depends if you are confident in self study tbh. If it were for me I would choose French since im a really lazy person and dont do self study. But then if you think about it, Japanese is a unique foreign language and it would look really good. If you're good at self studying then I'd say stick to Japanese. However it's your choice. Good luck!!