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Teaching my girlfriend Japanese inadvertently lead to the creation of a whole new curriculum and style of language teaching which I have been embodying in https
by sova 7y ago
Teaching my girlfriend Japanese inadvertently lead to the creation of a whole new curriculum and style of language teaching which I have been embodying in https://japanesecomplete.com/ https://japanesecomplete.com/
Originally the idea was to create a new textbook, but I found it easier to pair lessons with browser-based multiple choice quizzes that would hit the material home. Given the success of the first student, I thought it might be something people would be willing to pay for.
Since then, we have been adding a steady stream of helpful learning tools in addition to the textbook/curriculum that we are rolling out. There are dialogues with audio recordings so you can listen along. The entire curriculum is frequency based, so you are learning the most frequent terms first, which has proven invaluable with our students.
The recent shutdown has definitely affected our subscription rates, and I suspect the postponement of the Tokyo Olympics until 2021 did not do much for the enthusiasm for learning Japanese this year, but you never know. On the brightside, it gives people more time to prepare.
Learning a new language is an investment in yourself and your brain health for life. Language learning is building a bridge where there is a chasm.
- abnercoimbre 7y agoWow, I wonder if your series will help me? I'm on a sabbatical and one of the goals is to complete my Japanese studies -- been learning on and off since I was 14. I'm intermediate and can hold my own okay-ish conversationally, but I need practice scenarios and to strengthen my jōyō kanji. Most textbooks are taxing because they start from basics and it takes a while to find the practice I need. Advanced textbooks give me little practice and make too many assumptions.