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Originally Posted by biocit
I did not learn Japanese formally, but I think I taught myself well.
And to the person who said they changed their speech to meet my foreigner needs: They talk to each other like that when the conversation has nothing to do with me. I know how to recognize cultural awareness in speech.
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You guys are a tough crowd :/ I received criticism more than anything, but I don't mind. Feel free to ask a question at my site if you really want to test my knowledge in Japanese that much.
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I think you got so much criticism because of the first thing you said up there. We tend not to like people holding themselves out as teachers when they don't really appear to be qualified on paper. You said you never even studied Japanese formally, so we wonder what makes you think you can actually teach the language well? Now, your skills are irrelevant; I'm just saying why we reacted so harshly.
Next, "the person" (Sashimister) you're talking about in paragraph two is a native Japanese speaker. You should go with what he said. MMM, the other one who addressed the 私 issue, is a professional translator IIRC. I studied at a university in Japan.
We're a tough crowd because people come here all the time with "hey check out my Japanese instruction site" that inevitably turns out to be full of horrible, incorrect Japanese. That's why we're always so critical of sites such as yours. I will say that what I saw of yours doesn't raise alarm bells the way others I've seen do.
Still, I think your romaji point is weak. In your forum, you have a lesson on comparisons.
No one should be at that level of Japanese and not know kana. Period. The only excuse for teaching in romaji is that you're teaching how to say the things a learner would use on day 1 or day 2.
No true beginner should be learning comparisons. Someone learning comparisons is at a level where they should have learned kana. In my Japanese class, we learned hiragana before, I think, class three even started. We had basically learned how to say hello, goodbye, good morning, and a few other phrases. That's it. I don't think we'd learned any grammar whatsoever.