Japanese Lessons
Yes friends, I am trying to learn the language. So far I have been to two classes at the International Center and I am in the most basic class you could ever be in but I guess you have to start somewhere! It gives me a whole new perspective on teaching my little ones (in America and in Japan) how to read and write.
I don’t remember ever not knowing how to read or write in English so even though I teach 1st grade and see it everyday, it sometimes feels hard to relate to a brand new learner. I watch them, with those frustrating looks and then there is a breakthrough when it all makes sense! I am having those moments while learning Japanese.
I am NO WHERE near speaking, reading, etc, but when I am at my lesson and I am learning new letters and sounds and writing them over and over I feel so compelled to keep trying because I have to survive here in Japan.
I keep relating everything here to my study of education and literacy and everything I do as a teacher and I feel like I am performing a human experiment on myself. I am actually my own guinea pig starting over with a new language, learning how to read and write again.
This is probably one of the most unorganized blogs, with my random thoughts and my dinner burning on the kitchen, but sometimes I just have these moments of realization and I do what I tell my kids to do, “write about it.”
Yes friends, I am trying to learn the language. So far I have been to two classes at the International Center and I am in the most basic class you could ever be in but I guess you have to start somewhere! It gives me a whole new perspective on teaching my little ones (in America and in Japan) how to read and write.
I don’t remember ever not knowing how to read or write in English so even though I teach 1st grade and see it everyday, it sometimes feels hard to relate to a brand new learner. I watch them, with those frustrating looks and then there is a breakthrough when it all makes sense! I am having those moments while learning Japanese.
I am NO WHERE near speaking, reading, etc, but when I am at my lesson and I am learning new letters and sounds and writing them over and over I feel so compelled to keep trying because I have to survive here in Japan.
I keep relating everything here to my study of education and literacy and everything I do as a teacher and I feel like I am performing a human experiment on myself. I am actually my own guinea pig starting over with a new language, learning how to read and write again.
This is probably one of the most unorganized blogs, with my random thoughts and my dinner burning on the kitchen, but sometimes I just have these moments of realization and I do what I tell my kids to do, “write about it.”
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