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2011年2月25日金曜日

Langwage teaching & learning

In the morning, I prepared materials for teaching Japanese to Bryan. Easy questions in Japanese, counting the number,in Japanese, of the dates of the month, of people, and prices of things. Difficult, even for us Japanese. Names of fruits,vegetables, fish,and animals.
To teach a language is as difficult as to learn it. I began learning English when I was 14 years old, and have continued to learn it, and I am now 74 years old. That means,I have continued to learn it for 60 years. In the morning, I 'listen to' NHK TV program "World News" in English. When I take a walk in the morning, I always wear earphones and listen to English by walkman. I write this blog every day. I go to the city hall to teach Japanese and when I need to explain something, I speak in English. But,I am not satisfied at all with my ability to express in English what I want to say. Yesterday I watched a TV program in which, in a kindergarten in Gifu, nurses spoke to children only in English. Then, in three months, the children became able to communicate only in English. It was quite surprising, but the head of the kindergarten said they never taught English, but they just did everything through English. I'll consider more about it.

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