By Donald Ash | Learn Japanese
In a world of apps, gadgets, gizmos, and software, the old, faithful, paper Japanese textbook doesn’t always get the love it deserves. Maybe you’ve even come across people who have nothing good to say about textbooks: “You can’t learn real Japanese from a book!” “Japanese people don’t actually speak like that.” “You’re learning Japanese, huh? “Oh […]
Is anybody out there a Nickelodeon fan? No, I mean a REAL Nickelodeon fan! I want you to rewind the clock…Snick!? Oh man, that would be an awesome place to stop because it was the first time I ever saw Doug, Rugrats, Ren & Stimpy, and Are You Afraid of the Dark…but keep going. I’m […]
As a foreigner who is still working on his Japanese, working in a Japanese public school can present some challenges from time to time. One such challenge is getting used to new, Japanese, school-related vocabulary. Were I teaching at American public school, I wouldn’t even give issues like this a second thought because English is […]
Despite my salary being significantly lower than what it was, one of the perks to teaching at a Japanese public school, as opposed to an eikaiwa, is that I get to have a summer vacation. From today, I have a month to myself. This is the time to do some much needed reading and sleeping, […]