Sunday, 12 July 2009
Tangentially speaking (cos I'm too pissed to speak any other way)
The weekly Japanese lesson was disappointingly unsurreal yesterday, although we did revisit the key points that elephants have long noses and that when Westerners get up in the morning, first they have a shower and then they have a cup of coffee. This practical approach was because the teacher was on a mission to educate, rather than the somewhat bumbling retired man who appears to be on a disinformation mission. Yesterday he rode shotgun, but tried his best to hijack the lesson to complain about the high cost of fireworks displays, but sensei was having none of it. Anyway, Our Man likes tangents.
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Would this be one of those free weekly Japanese classes organized by the local ward, and typically staffed with education students looking for practice and retirees looking for something to do?
If so, just be aware that they may be a nice way to get a bit of local connection for recently arrived foreigners, but are slightly worse than useless for actual language learning.
Get a private licensed teacher. With no others in the class you can go at the exactly right pace, and focus on the stuff you're having trouble with. And there's no hiding behind another student or avoiding answering a tricky question. By far the most efficient way to learn a language I know.
Sage advice. Actually, it's a class of two and the regular sensei is very good. The old fella is there for comic relief as far as I can tell.
surely comic relief is there for the old fella?
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