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Originally Posted by evanny
teachers i have had this year both have lived in Japan for 7 and 11 years. one even married a japenese guy and the other one has a Phd at age of 29. the one with the Phd was the most fun, smart and interesting teacher i have ever had. in 6 months i have learned katana,hirigana and ~300kanji + finished genki I and almost genki II. i was able to speak on several topics with a Japanese native teacher during my exam.
and next year my teacher is going to be a native. we have a system that 1st year is non-native and then native.
so please. shut the fuck up 
and you retard, i already told you that only thing a uneducated native speaker can teach you is speaking - but you won't know what the fuck is grammar and rules and you won't be able to make a new, correct conversation beyond thing you practised with the bum.
i tell you again - i am talking about learning everything a language has and not just speaking with a bum. |
In your OP you were very general about which language or country etc.
I just want to give one real example, and I'm not trying to say it's the case everywhere else, in fact I know it isn't.
In Japan, people have a pretty strong foundation of grammar and rules and structure etc, but very little to no speaking practice.
In most cases, teaching in Japan is hardly teaching, it's just giving them a chance to speak the words they know and correct their errors.
Even in the cases the teacher corrects the error, the student understands immediately why it's wrong, just slipped in conversation, so even then it's hardly teaching.
In Japan it's more conversation partner, or language coach, than teacher.
A good teacher though, who is trained and can actually teach, will thrive and rip apart the competition of non-teachers who really just talk and listen.
But, using my first explanation of Japan, maybe you can understand why Japanese people are in fact biased towards having someone with an accent they hope to speak, rather than someone who can explain grammatical forms and conjugations etc.
Ya dig?