School Diary Part 6

uchinodenwabangou…uchinodenwabangou…uchinodenwabangou

My ears hurt. Because the whole evening we heard this phrase. Uchinodenwabangou. Even in my dreams I hear these words.

The two week break is over and school finally started again. YAY learning japanese!!

And like I predicted we had to repeat lesson 2 from the beginning because we were just 4 people last time.

Numbers and more numbers. And the students from last time had to answer the questions regarding numbers. Not hard but +6 in geek level.

I was really surprised that all students learned the numbers really fast. One of the teenage girls read them so fast you couldn’t understand her at all. They were right, yes, but omg so fast oO

Well, one could say it is heavy to read japanese because there is no gap between the single words in a sentence. That sure is a point but not if you heard the same stuff over and over and over again. And it is no excuse to not know the hiragana symbols now. Already seven weeks passed away since the start of the classes.

I do understand if you don’t know every single vocabulary learned until now. It just don’t work for everybody. But you should be able to read the stuff. Even if you do not know what is written there. I have my doubts if we reach the goal of finishing the first 7 lessons. 5 lessons to go and 9 weeks remaining.

Ok, the textbook “Japanese for busy people” is a piece of worthless trash. No beginner need to know the japanese word for company or secretary or how to ask for a phone number.

A good japanese textbook has to teach the basics in a good way, so the student can use japanese freely.

For example “My name is xyz” or “I am xx years old” or “I live in Exampletown”. Stuff a japanese beginner needs and not “This is Suzuki-san. She is Mr Geenens secretary.”

After a few weeks being with all those people I start to hate my classes. It is not the class I wished for.