declan_murphy@hotmail.com wrote:
> 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. 

I did study intermediate. 中級 is normally translated intermediate. You
can lie all you like but it doesn't change the truth.

But my information is more recent than that - there is no integrated
syllabus and you certainly aren't qualified to create one either.

> 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).

My complaints obviously were not recorded even though I specifically
asked YOU to help with the situation. After being fobbed off for 4 days
by you I realised YOU weren't going to help. My encounter with Kuroda
was after I left the former teacher's class in an effort of salvage what
I could from the course. Not surprising there was no record of that. But
I am sure there were comments about continually receiving material that
I was unable to read.

Lucky I kept the two letters of apology I received. They're in a box
somewhere, would you like copies for your records?

> 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. 

Of course that is not responsive to what I said.

8 people? That's a pretty small pass rate.

> Reasonal and
> rational people might compare that to the snide comments of a
> disgruntled former employee and then draw their own conclusions.
> 

Maybe you could get Gavin and all your happy former employees to back up
some of your comments.