Mar
12
2008
I have been teaching French in a Japanese School and of course those Japanese teachers wanted to learn French from me, so lucky me exchanged some French words in order to learn some Japanese words.
Free Memorize Japanese Words e-book
The strength of these Japanese teachers is that they look for an English sentence that sounds quite similar to the Japanese word, in order for you to better memorize Japanese words.
Have a look at my free memorize Japanese words to find out more!
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Feb
23
2008
As usual people prefer to learn a language from a native speaker…
I do have to say that I prefer learning a language from a bi-lingual or more lingual teacher. Why?
Because native speakers most of the time don’t have a feel for the difficulties of their language, nor as for the cultural differences revealed in the language. Which is my advantage when I go back to Malaysia to teach French: I can add the cultural differences and point them out where they are hidden in the language.
For instance; if the French have 1001 words describing the weather, it means that weather is:
- an important subject to start a conversation
- quite diversital
Anyway, if you really want to see some cultural differences, seen from an English teacher in Japan : the latest site added to the Add your link directory has a lot of cultural clashes with beautiful pictures though and podcasts: Of Rice and Zen talks about the cultural clashes from a westerner teaching English in Japan 
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