br wrote:
> declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> > takeshi wrote:
> >
> >> The intermediate sylabus at Yamasa is a total shambles (or more
> >> accurately a complete lack of) and needs to be seriously sorted out.
> >
> > Which intermediate syllabus? AIJP or SILAC? You studied in AIJP from
> > beginner to upper-beginner, starting at a time when the program's
> > structure had been in existence 12 months.
>
> I said intermediate.

Yes. You also wrote that the intermediate syllabus "is a total
shambles", despite not having studied at intermediate level in AIJP,
and never at any level in SILAC, nor having been inside a Yamasa
classroom as a student for what is getting close to 6 years now. Your
projections are based on 6 months at beginner level when the program
was a year old and still being established with a largely newly
recruited faculty. And interestingly enough, in none of the 3
interviews you had with S-sensei (interview answers still recorded in
the database of course) was there any mention from you of Kuroda's
teaching (nor are there any contemporaneous complaints from you about
any other instructor).

You also seem to enjoy telling the bigdaikon.mob that the upper levels
are a "Chinese ghetto" and you have a very strange obsession with race,
and a belief that there is somehow an absence of non-Asian students
above intermediate. Westerners at Yamasa can't learn Japanese via the
direct method? Bullshit. Interestingly enough, the top class currently
has 1 Hong Kong student, 1 from Taiwan, 4 USAians (none of Asian
descent - 2 white, 2 black), 1 German & 1 French. 4+4 male/female
split. All but one of whom began in one of the 6 beginner level
classes, including 3 who started at a, i, u, e, o,  and passed through
the "total shambles" of a curriculum that has mysteriously enabled them
to learn to read, write, converse, debate etc. All will pass JLPT1
easily. The other advanced classes have a similar mix. Reasonal and
rational people might compare that to the snide comments of a
disgruntled former employee and then draw their own conclusions.