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실력을 급향상시키고, 증명서도 원하십니까?
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직장, 유학, 네이티브와의 회화를 원하십니까?
한국인으로써 일본어를 공부하지 않는 것은 손해입니다.
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HSC 이렇게 준비했어요

김신아

2010년 HSC Japanese Extension NSW 1위
(98점, Japanese 스피치 컨테스트 2위)

일어 공부는 10학년때가 진짜 시작이였던것같아요. 다른 학생들이 심각하게 공부안할때, 저는 JLPT 3급 준비를 하고있었고, 결과적으로 나중에 다른 학생들이랑 차이가 많이 난것같아요.
또 한가지 일본에 교환학생으로 간것도 많은 도움이된것같아요. 특히 호스트 페밀리가 영어는 절대로 안하고, 일본어만 써서.. 처음엔 대화도 못해 많이 힘들긴했지만, 그게 나중에보니, 나한테 최고의 경험이였어요. 하지만, 3급 준비도 안한 상태로 일본을 갔다면 하나도 못늘었을것같아요.
교환학생으로 가기전에 어느정도에 레벨에 있는게 중요한것같아요.

그 후 11학년때 처음으로 일본어에서 1등했어요. 그때 우리반 4명밖에 없었지만, 그때 1등에 맛을 알았다고나할까.. ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
한번 일등하면 다음에 하기가 더 쉬어요.
그래서 계속 열심히 하게 된것같아요.

황선생님은 늘 제가 만족하지 않고 더 큰 도전을 할 수 있도록 이끌어주셨어요.
저에게 일본어 과외시간은 너무 소중했어요.
듣기는 일본드라마 그리고 영화, 자막없이 봤어요. 그냥 안들린다고 자막 틀어놓고 보면 소용이없는것같아요. 12학년때는 일본인 교회를 다니면서 많이는 이해 못했지만, 일본어로 설교도 들으면서 일본사람들도 만나고.. 그것도 듣기에 많이 도움이됬어요.

writing했을 때 선생님에게서 받은 advice 그리고 marking 을 이해하려구 노력하고, 같은 실수를 두번하지않으려구 했지요.
그런 끝임없는 노력이 좋은 결과를 낳은 것 같아요..
무엇보다 끝까지 포기하지않고, 나도 일등을 할수있다!라는 생각을갖고
일단 꿈이크면 그만큼 노력하게 되는것같아요..
그리고 Japanese continuers, 그리고 특히 extension scaling 이 너무 좋기 때문에 진짜 노력하면 atar 도 엄청 많이 up 되는것같아요.
일본어 성적과 더불어 일본어 스피치대회 성적 덕분에 제가 원하는 과에도 입학할 수 있게 되었답니다.

Konnichiwa to everyone reading this testimonial!

Narae Son

Konnichiwa to everyone reading this testimonial! My name is Narae Son, a third year student at The University of Sydney, studying the Bachelor of Education/ Bachelor of Arts degree with majors in Japanese.

Being a third year student means that you are at the point of your life where big decisions of where your future will be heading and your career options is a major issue to ponder up on. And talking to friends in the same grade as I, I notice that many of them are struggling through this process pretty harshly because they are unsure as to whether what they are studying is what they wish to continue doing throughout their life, whether this is the correct pathway for them to take and whether they will be happy. As I sit listening to these serious talks, as selfish as this sounds, I cannot help but feel an emotion of thankfulness and gratitude at the fact that I love and enjoy what I am doing at the moment. I simply cannot wait to get out there are start teaching Japanese to my lovely future students. And thinking about this, I also cannot help but feel thankful and grateful that I met Mrs Hwang in the hot summer of 2007.

Looking back in to my high school years, I am always astonished as to how a person’s attitude and incentives towards studying a certain subject can change so dramatically. My first two years of studying Japanese, I must say honestly, was filled with boredom, disinterest and hatred. Never having really taken a deep interest in the country of Japan, I was inevitably low in motivation to study for Japanese too. Lack of initiative meant that the hours spent studying Japanese were very little hence a poor grade and what naturally follows a low mark is a loss of confidence. This leads to a further degrading of interest, and the vicious cycle continues. This was the cycle that I was stuck in. I hated walking in to class and there were many times where I would lie in the sick bay pretending to be suffering from a terrible headache when all my classmates would be walking in to Japanese class.

It was at this point of giving up Japanese to pick up another subject for my HSC’s that I was introduced to Mrs Hwang. And it was from this point that my previous attitude towards Japanese changed 360 degree, to a whole new level. Walking in to Mrs Hwang’s first lesson, the first change I noticed was the different approach she took to teaching Japanese. It wasn’t all about books and pencils. It was about watching and experiencing the Japanese culture, interacting with the teacher and other pupils and it was to put yourself out of the comfort zone to compare your abilities with other students. Her lessons were not only centred around studying off the text book but was accompanied by a drama lesson held every Saturday with all of her other pupils (FOR FREE!) We would watch an episode of a drama where Mrs Hwang would stop after a couple of sentences, ask, on a random basis, whether a student had understood what the line had meant and what this statement had to say about the Japanese culture and go through a thorough explanation of the grammar, vocabulary and conceptions and ideology of the Japanese culture embedded in that sentence. This lesson, I must say, was the highlight of Mrs Hwang’s tutoring sessions as it was after this lesson that I began to take an incredible interest, not only in the Japanese language but the nation as a whole. A heightened interest meant that I went out of my way to look for more dramas to watch, more exposure to the culture and language of Japan, and within this process, I could feel myself gradually improving on my Japanese ability. And after this feeling of accomplishment, I could not stop but study the language more and more. It was the taste of heaven when I would understand more of what my favourite actor is saying in a drama, when I would be able to recognise a kanji and read it out loud in front of my class mates looking puzzled both at the kanji AND at my sudden change in behaviour and when my grades would jump from a 37% to a 97%. My aims were no longer a good mark for the HSC. It was passing the JLPT level 2 exam as just a young year 12 student. It was even going beyond to make Japanese as my third language, in level with my English and Korean proficiency.

And I guess I have succeeded in that goal to a certain degree! Here I am, my passion towards Japanese not stopping at a level of studying it myself but even teaching to others, my abilities in Japanese enough to award me scholarships to Japan and my interest in Japan large enough to be absolutely happy and loving the fact that I am studying it right now.
Mrs Hwang has not only impacted upon the Japanese aspect of my life, but it was her who planted the passion for me to become a teacher. I was inspired by the fact that someone can have such a big impact on a person’s life and future that I wished to do the same, and so here I am studying with a dream of one day becoming a teacher like Mrs Hwang.
And so, there is no doubt to say that Mrs Hwang wasn’t simply a teacher; she was my mentor, my mother and the navigator of my life.