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How many languages has he learned?
a) 2
b) 3
c) 4
What other kinds of students has he taught?
a) European
b) South American
c) Both of these
What does he teach at the moment?
a) Junior high students
b) High school students
c) Small children
What does he think about Japanese students?
a) They are lazy
b) They study a lot
c) They like English
Who works the hardest at his school?
a) The Japanese staff
b) The Western staff
c) Both of them are the same
Transcript
It helps in that I have insight to how somebody learning a foreign language needs things
explained because I've learned 4 myself. However in some ways it doesn't help because the
Japanese learner, the Japanese sort of mind, and how they learn languages is so very different
from anywhere in Europe or South America so activities that would work really well with a
European western, South American audience, or South American class, don't seem to work at
all due to some of the differences in Japanese and Western culture.
Do you think the whole sort of Japanese schooling system is very different?
It's extremely different.
How is that?
I haven't got a great insight into it but I think the kids have to work a lot harder here.
All, I teach a lot of high school children and they're often coming to my lesson, in between
their breaks between cram school, on a national holiday, in the summer holiday. When I was a
kid I'd be playing in the park and beating up girls up the street with a wooden stick or
something.
And do you reckon that is kind of passed on with the ****** of work society here, like sort of
similar sort working, or?
Yeah, I suppose so. I think a lot is expected of them all throughout there lives. Two of my neighbors
are both salarymen, and they often are arriving at home very very late, and a lot more is expected of
the Japanese staff at the school than is of the western staff. They'll often ask them to do jobs
that take twice as long as what they ask us. I don't know whether that is because they expect the
Japanese staff can do more, or they just think we're stupid, which some of us are!
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