How Not To Give a Legitimate Test 101

[sciathan_file]

Ugh...so I'm taking Japanese 101 at community college because I missed learning and such. However, I think I could teach it better than the professor (who thinks rote memorization is the answer to life, the universe, and everything

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[dsanti_queza]

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Can I just say WHAT!?!?! What kind of a test is that!?!? And, how do they teach you!?!?! >.<

Considering I'm taking up Linguistics in Uni, and my department is the one that teaches the Asian languages, that up there, that is so NOT how to teach a language, much less Japanese! >.< -is appalled-

Erm, find a different teacher? >.<

Kihana

[sciathan_file]

Sorry for the delay. I was out of the state!

Um, I don't really learn anything at all there that I don't teach myself. Luckily this is the second language I've seriously taken (I've dabbled in others, but not really seriously). But her one avowed teaching method is rote memorization which prepares you to recite dialogues, but not understand what they are saying.

Also, she has them learn hiragana and katakana "at their own pace." Unfortunately since most of the community college students are really the learning kind, their pace is...don't learn anything at all.

It also doesn't help that I have a master's degree and most of the kids are straight out of high school and the professor wouldn't understand structured learning or varied activities if they bit her...

But I have learned about 50+ Kanji by myself and a number of advanced verb forms...because I get bored.

[dsanti_queza]

Wow. I admire your self-learning techniques. I have such a problem with that - like I find I learn more if someone's teaching me. Actually, that's wrong. It's more like, I learn more if I'm required to spend a certain amount of time actually learning. 'Coz, you know, me and procrastination/time-wasting techniques = self-learning is inefficient. XDD

If you want, I can find the digital copy of the book we use. I'm pretty sure there is one, but I can't remember who told me about it. I'll go look for it for you. :)

[jav_chan]

So when you mentioned the magic girl attack...for some reason I kept picturing Tamaki in a CCS-ish outfit.

[sciathan_file]

I WANT FAN ART NOW!

...Also, it is so the pink dress from the first opening of CCS (or is it the second?..I think it is the first).

HILARIOUSLY TRAUMATIZING!

[jav_chan]

Argh!!!! If only I could draw!

I will attempt to do a picture if it can be traded for a Squeeetastic Tamaki fic.

Or I may do my first attempt at Ouran based on that image.