Nihongo
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Nihongo
Okay, so I've been taking Japanese for a little more than two years now and I've definitly developed the sense of "what's the best way to teach someone from scratch?" Obviously if it's your second language you have to learn it from a slightly different approach, keeping in mind you can still communicate in some sense.
So I always look around for online quizzes and stuff mostly out of curiosity on how others might instruct the language (I already have my own 'curriculum" for how I'd teach, which is incidentally how I learned). Recently I stumbled upon this:
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/linguist ... apn_l1.htm
Wow. Are people that stupid?
So I always look around for online quizzes and stuff mostly out of curiosity on how others might instruct the language (I already have my own 'curriculum" for how I'd teach, which is incidentally how I learned). Recently I stumbled upon this:
http://www-rohan.sdsu.edu/dept/linguist ... apn_l1.htm
Wow. Are people that stupid?
The romaji is painful on the eyes, but I was at that stage at one point too I suppose. I think that it's great to use English phrases to help remember new words. I typically think of the phrases up myself though. And then it is slowly obsorbed into my memory as just a word. I don't think it's all that stupid when you're fist starting off though.
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To be more precise on my view, I have no problem with beginners using Romaji. It's obviously necessary but I think it should be used more in a furigana sense with the kana so the student can still get a feel as to what real Japanese looks like.
And of course as the vocabulary is gone over, so should hiragana. My teacher had an alphabet set for the kana in blocks and timed me as I put them all back together in the right order. After I mastered Hiragana the same went on for Katakana. I waited quite a bit for kanji but I was still shown just to get a feel as to how it worked.
And of course as the vocabulary is gone over, so should hiragana. My teacher had an alphabet set for the kana in blocks and timed me as I put them all back together in the right order. After I mastered Hiragana the same went on for Katakana. I waited quite a bit for kanji but I was still shown just to get a feel as to how it worked.
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I feel like a lamb who ran eagerly to the slaughter some 3 or 4 years ago. Yeah, it sucks, particularly too much when your teachers (three of them) don't know shit of your language; the very first day he says something like ude wo mawashimasu, and then you pray for not doing something stupid and/ or give the impression that you're an asshole for not understanding what in Heavens' Glory he just said to you.
Then I got better, but the bottom line is that I seriously don't care about the language that much to forsake the rest of my learning capabilities just so I can play a little game here, see some anime there, read some manga over there and so.
Ore wa nihongo wo chotto sukoshi hanashidesu = I suck at Japanese, don't make fun of me.
Then I got better, but the bottom line is that I seriously don't care about the language that much to forsake the rest of my learning capabilities just so I can play a little game here, see some anime there, read some manga over there and so.
Ore wa nihongo wo chotto sukoshi hanashidesu = I suck at Japanese, don't make fun of me.
Why learn any language? Oh, yeah that's how people communicate...
Why learn a second language when you already have one? It actually works a different part of the brain, is very challenging, opens the doors up to new cultures, new people, new places. It can help take you a step out of the house.
Why do I fear sunlight? I would guess upbringing, but it could also be nature.
Why learn a second language when you already have one? It actually works a different part of the brain, is very challenging, opens the doors up to new cultures, new people, new places. It can help take you a step out of the house.
Why do I fear sunlight? I would guess upbringing, but it could also be nature.