jtech2

> ... because I know other major cities have one. My friend since high school is from Mexico City, > and she went to a Japanese school there... Yes, I've seen the Mexico City Japanese school on NHK TV - rather impressive. There are 8 highschools in the greater Houston area and 2 junior highschools that teach Japanese. In addition there is the regular Japanese language Saturday school. Information on all this can be found in a few minutes by a WWW search. Registration and application information for the regular Japanese language Saturday school is on the WWW. I think they have about 40 American students registered right now. Earlier messages mentioned the UH main campus adult education class. This is too short to do any good and this class is extremely expensive. Other adult non-credit classes are taught at UH Clearlake campus, Japan American Society, Taiwanese Cultural Center, Rice University, Houston Community College, and sometimes Berlitz. The only non-credit classes that continue to advanced level (full literacy) are the JASH classes. Among the college credit courses in the Houston area, only Rice gets to that level. You should be able to dig up most of this information on the WWW by a little searching. An earlier message mentioned Rossetta Stone. The Rossetta Stone Japanese course is essentially junk, useful for nothing but teaching low-level tourist expresions. The same can be said for any of the other course materials you are likely to find at your local big bookstore. --- Jtech2