[dogsbody70]

Surelu many of those who teach grammar etc often use manuals.

Maybe we English have forgotten much of the grammar we grew up with but its easy enough to check it all again.

If you are saying that because I am a Native speaker I should not attempt to teach my own language?

Should i have to pay out alot of money to get the manuals for teaching?

The nearest celta course costs over £2000--- which I could never afford, but it is possible to access manuals.

would I turn to a non native japanese speaker or a non japanese? Well naturally I would expect to learn from a Japanese person.


Myjapanese friend has been studying EFL here in a school in UK for several years but her listening skills are very poor. I dislike the TEXT BOOKS that are used and the EXAMS.

I helped her a great deal with pronunciation. When she first came she could not pronounce "W" as in woman-- she used to say OOMAN,

the R's and the L's indistinguishable-- also B and V-- but now with practice-- she has conquered those sounds very well.

she is supposed to be good enough to attend University, but in no way is she ready for that because of her poor listening skills.

I no longer help her-- try to avoid confusing her lessons. But I feel there is much lacking in the system--

Her pronunciation was helped by reading Nursery Rhymes-- around the ragged rock the ragged rascal ran-- etc-- plus reading sections from newspapers and books-- but she does not seem to have dictation at school.

she can talk for ages-- her vocabulary is pretty good, but the minute she has to listen to someone-- her mind just cannot take in what is being said.

I was able to help her via EMAILs correcting any errors which she said was a great help.