"Al" <al@privacy.ne.jp> wrote in message 
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> <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
>
I am of the opinion that some things are best taught very slowly and have 
had good luck with that in physically learning to do something.
Until this time I had never really thought much about speed of listening, 
then I ran across this post and compared the Japanese I have learned with 
the speed at which I have learned it.
And I have determined, faster is better.
Unless you want to learn to talk VERY SLOWLY if so go ahead and raise your 
voice too so the listener will really get it.

I said all that to say this...The idea of learning at a fast pace through 
repetition really makes sense to me.
Sounds like whoever started that is a great teacher and I will begin to 
apply that same principal to my learning's.
And I can prove it...