{"id":83,"date":"2014-05-29T10:47:32","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T10:47:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/furutak\/?page_id=83"},"modified":"2026-01-12T01:22:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T09:22:49","slug":"other-background","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/course-registration-guide\/other-background\/","title":{"rendered":"New Students &#8211; Other Japanese Language Background"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>The following students<span style=\"color: #ff0000\"> <b>must contact their instructor immediately to receive the advise on appropriate course to register<\/b><\/span> and, if the instructor decides, must take a placement test in order to register the course.<\/h4>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none\">\n<ul>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students whose parent (or parents) is a native speaker of Japanese<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students who have studied Japanese at other institutions but do not have transfer credits<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students who have studied Japanese with private tutors or on their own<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000\">Students who have lived in Japan for one year or longer<\/span><\/h4>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<hr \/>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>For more information on advising\/assessment process, please contact the <span style=\"color: #ff0000\"><a style=\"text-decoration: none;color: #ff0000\" title=\"Contact Us\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/contact_us\/\"><b>Japanese Program<\/b><\/a><\/span>.<\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following students must contact their instructor immediately to receive the advise on appropriate course to register and, if the instructor decides, must take a placement test in order to register the course. Students whose parent (or parents) is a native speaker of Japanese Students who have studied Japanese at other institutions but do not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":0,"parent":92,"menu_order":4,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-83","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","post"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1171,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/83\/revisions\/1171"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/92"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.viu.ca\/japanese\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}