<declan_murphy@hotmail.com> wrote:

> takeshi wrote:
> > Al wrote:
> >
> > > No idea whether the older lady "Kuroda-san" would still be working at
> > > the school 8 years after I met her there, but her approach to teaching
> > > (fast talking: if someone doesn't understand, don't speak more slowly -
> > > just repeat what you said as often as necessary and tell the "kids" lots
> > > of real-life stories), though outright scary the first 2 or 3 weeks at
> > > the school, has been an inspiration for me over the years.
>
> Kuroda-sensei to you matey :-)  Okinawa is obviously way too informal.

Well, Aichi is known to be on th econservative end of the cultural
spectrum. ;-) Probably not a bad idea considering how many of your
students want to work in corporate Japan after they got their Japanese
up to speed.

Well, some people now call me "sensei" as well since I started that
part-time teaching job 2 years ago, but inspite of a thousand years of
Confucian tradition among the younger people things seem to be loosening
up. :-)

Al