I like Japanese, and despise school, so I thought it is was a good idea to study Japanese in class.
I’ve made myself a schedule for what to study.
First period - Vocab
Second period - Grammar
Third period - Vocab
Fourth period - Grammar
My teachers blocked Renshuu, but I found this site. It’s awesome!
This seems very short-sighted. Neglecting the classes in your school curriculum will likely negatively impact your grades. This language learning should be an afterschool activity for you, if your school doesn’t offer a Japanese class.
If the reason for you despising school is because of difficulty with your classes, I would recommend speaking to your school’s guidance counselor. There may be ways they can offer you help to make you enjoy your classes more.
Good idea. 80% of the stuff they teach you in secondary school is completely trivial. The things I learned in secondary school that are useful to me now would have fit into a single-year curriculum. In contrast, if you like Japanese, knowing the basics of the language might align with your future life goals and employment goals. I wish I had studied Japanese in the many hours I’ve truanted.
Btw I hate schools and universities.
Gave up first after 8 years and second after 1 week
How were you even able to get accepted into a university if you quit after eight years?
In Sweden we have 12 years of school before university studies. Is the requirement really that much lower in (I assume) Italy?
I was applying in Ukraine
I actually have 11 years on paper because I finished school online , but actually saying I was not doing a thing about it.
Anyhow, back to the topic, do you learn in class or outside of the class, I didn’t quite get it?
Period is like 1/4 of the year?
Maybe it’s better to do everything at once, grammar, vocab, reading, listening, just in little quantities?
A period is one session in a day. For example, a timetable for one school day may look like this;
1st Period - Maths
2nd Period - Science
3rd Period - Social studies
Lunch
4th Period - Music
@redlightakari
I agree, not all high school subjects are useful for everyone, but before completely giving up on every class, decide on what Job you want to do after school. Then, make sure it is achievable and and ensure you have the skills to get a job in that field. It really sucks to see students completely give up at school and then be stuck with a miserable future because they have to work a job they absolutely despise. Remember that to work in Japan you need a University degree to get a visa.
I see. Thank you for clarifying. Excuse me if my comment came across as overly presumptuous.
No no, everything is ok don’t worry 
(And in Italy it’s actually 12 years as well)
Oh ok, thanks, I was unfamiliar with this topics vocabulary
Dont do this. Focus on school, study Japanese outside of school if it interests you. Or get a group of friends together also interested in Japanese to study with during lunch break or something. If you have an interest in living in Japan one day you will definitely need to go to university. If not, then you should still be focusing on school because it will be more useful to you in your home country. Yes school can be boring but it is a “necessary evil” and once you leave school most people look back on their school days wishing they tried harder, I certainly do
As has been said, school teaches you plenty of “useless” things… but these are not useless things when it comes to passing tests, which is a very useful thing to be able to do in terms of your future.
I would like to ask why you hate school so much. I hated it vehemently, but it was because I had ADHD and couldn’t concentrate on anything that didn’t interest me. Diagnosing that when I was a kid would have been life changing, but alas no one thought to look into it. If you’re so bored and unable to concentrate that you’re basically climbing up the walls during class time, and your teachers always moan about how you don’t pay attention, looking into why would be a very good idea.
Then on the other hand - some people also hate school because they’re too good at it, and they’re bored because it’s easy. If that’s the case for you, a bit of Japanese study in class time won’t kill you, as long as it’s not so zealous. You need your Japanese curriculum to be loose enough that you can drop it and pay attention whenever something important or potentially difficult is being taught at school.
In any case, just remember, this life makes it easy to throw your “future” away at an age where you are entirely developmentally unqualified to understand the repercussions of that decision. Even if your chosen future requires no qualifications, remember that your mind can change a hundred times between now and then. I once wanted to be a game designer. I became a graphic designer instead. Now I’m trying to become a doctor.
It’s always better to keep your options open, than to slam shut doors early and regret it later.
As someone who hated school and university (dropped out and then went back part time 3 days a week after work for 6 years) I would seriously advise against completely disregarding school. Blowing off one class might still be fine if its something you are wholeheartedly convinced you will not need. However, even that can be risky. Some subjects like math (algebra or trig for example), while not being entirely useful after school and university, absolutely do teach you how to think about and approach problem solving. That will be a very useful skill when you get older.
Additionally, this period in your life will be the one in which learning is probably the easiest. You have to be at school anyway and have very few responsibilities otherwise. Learning as an adult becomes much harder since you’ll need to balance many other responsibilities with finding time to learn new things. You’ll most likely develop major gaps in knowledge and skills that will only become harder to remedy once you get older. Its also not a good idea to cultivate a habit of shirking your responsibilities simply because you don’t enjoy them. If you maintain this habit for an extended period of time it will be a nightmare to break in the future. Assuming you end up like most adults, you will have to work a 9-5 at some point. At that point blowing off your duties will not work out well for you.
Its definitely great that you are trying to learn the language at such a young age and that will definitely pay off in the long run, but maybe instead of 4 hours a day, do 2 hours a day after school.