今朝のクラスで先生に「なるほど！」と言った。 先生は少しびっくりしたと思う。将来に気を付けて！
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Zoom classes are weird
I’m taking a Japanese class with lessons over Zoom, and I don’t know how school children put up with it for a year. It is just plain odd. You get some, but not all, body clues on how someone is thinking, and there is this pervasive sensation of being disconnected to people that you feel you should be connected to. Still, it’s the only game in town if you want to take any kind of class. Except for exercise classes where people gather in the alley behind my house while their instructor shouts at them.
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最近学校が始まりす
今月日本語の学校が始まる。すきし怖いだの。「Zoom」のクラスは未知だから、心もとない。 コロナなので日本に飛行機旅行のが難しいと思う。じゃぁ、なぜ日本語をまなんでるか？ いい質問だな？
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So Many Choices
What are the pillars of a language? Grammar Vocabulary Reading Writing Speaking Those are the major ones, anyway. Back in the day, you would go to a school, and the school would assign you to a teacher. Someone would assign you a textbook or two or three, and off you went. Do your homework, write some tests, speak the new language in class in usually artificial conversations. and if you were diligent, you might have wound up understanding a new language. How did you choose where and how to study? Well, pretty imply, where could you afford to live for at least nine months and also fund your studies? If… Read More
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自分で
自分で日本語を学ぶことは時を解き放すのでもう怖いです。先生は自分自身だからテストを失敗さればこれから ミラーで見らなければいけませんね。 このごろ日本語を話すことがほしいです。それから、学校のAITASは面白くてになりました。あの学校で没入をします。 次回入ると思います。
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