Sunday, September 4, 2011

Teaching Japanese

I found an advertizement the other day, it said there are some Japanese class and they are looking for people who can help to teach Japanese.

When I found the advertizement, I'm not sure if I could teach Japanese but I'd love to do it even though  I don't know much about Japanese grammar.

Anyways, I apply it and today was the first day of the classes :)

There were 8 students, 4 from Philippines and 4 from China. Some of them can speak Japanese but most of them don't understand Japanese well. They know some like "Thank you" and greetings.

In the class, there were three teacher include me :)
I helped Chinese student group today. (I don't speak Chinese, but understand little bit.)
They are really good students!!!!
Today, we taught how to write Japanese "Hiragana" (It's like alphabet "A, B, C, D......") and some basic phrases "Good night" "Have a nice day"and so on.

Chinese students were struggling with pronunciation.
"Ki" sound is the most difficult sound today.
("Ki" is like "[Ki]ck", "[Ki]ss", "[Ki]ndergarten.")

The pronunciation is difficult, and the class is difficult for them, however they smiled when they understand, and write Japanese letter beautifully :)
We laugh together sometimes.
This made me happy.

Seeing people's progress is really great, so I love teaching Japanese too.

I'm gonna bring Chinese dictionary next time :D It may help our study.


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