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I am not criticising anyone's Japanese ability. If you do not like what I have said, beware. I am one who has spent many many years and thousands of hours trying to learn a second language, yet always thinking at the end of the year that I was perfect. I saw that I could always out-shine other...

Anyway, I shall tell you about my English, and I how I came to be doing the dread English Extension 1 course... My learning secret was arguably not the best, but after being equipped with some basic grasp of the language, I went out and started reading material which even University students...

I arrived in Year 5 but only for 2 years. I then returned in Form 9 (sorry, counting on my fingers here) forever so I could live with my parents again in Sydney. I unfortunately did not have the advantage of an ESL teacher in Australia; I went straight into a private school in NSW when I...

Shit! What about the speeches?!? HTF do I learn 12 speeches in full detail! Help! Have they ever nominated speeches? My past trial exam didn't so I was very happy. It was a section I rushed, yet I received one of my highest module marks in it... But it was my least prepared module! (i.e...

I would not recommend studying just languages as a wise course...

But they've done so in the past haven't they? You're talking about poems, right? What about the speeches and the stimulus booklet. (Why do I keep writing stimilus for... ??? Oh well)

I want to get this straight because I've been losing sleep over this for the past 2 weeks... Can the HSC require you to: Analyse a 1. Specific SKRZYNECKI POEM, 2. Specific SPEECH (from SPEECHES MODULE), 3. Specific text from the STIMULUS BOOKLET I've seen past trial papers from...

I've heard from other foreigners that immersion in Japan isn't too good because when Japanese people speak to foreigners in Japanese they often talk in very simple language so that the foreigner will understand. I've seen similar when Japanese who don't speak much English come to Australia...

Um don't say that.

What I like about Wing Chun is the fact that it is very scientific... it's the only martial art which can prove that it works through biomechanical and physical principles. That school has an entire publication, which I believe is contributed to by one of the Professors at UNSW!

Tae Kwon Do is gay... I've seen lower level JUDO beat Tae Kwon Do :P I hear many people start off with TKD but then move on hehe...

Who would ever want to do Karate after doing Wing Chun?! I supposedly attained a black belt in Judo, but I sparred with a WC guy who had been training less than half the time I spent doing Judo and let's just say I lost :P That's why I want to start Wing Chun soon, maybe after November I...

Ooh quick there's some random Samurai film on SBS!

Would you still like me to explain? I can give you an off-the-cuff example, but it's a little tricky to explain... There I go with the cliches. Is that a cliche???

About the Eikaiwa classes, yes I understand the CELTA requirement, however I must often sympathise with those who spend a whole class trying to ask a simple question to their teacher. There are better ways to learn English in Japan, but believe me, I am one who has been to several major schools...

I shall look into the grammar points for you. I'm sorry if I cannot explain them readily with easy example, as I don't know how to express the subtleties in English by myself. As for 'Jap', I have come to be easy on people who say it without intention to offend, however it still somewhat...

You don't necessarily all suck at Japanese. If you use what you have in your course, you can still communicate with Japanese people. However, through your courses you will always be a Japanese student talking to a native speaker... Some University courses are OK, but still just a few steps away...

No, Anime is in no way near close to daily talk. If it were so, then it would be very boring for Japanese. A lot of slang is used, and often characters in Anime will make up their own 'slang' to give themselves 'character'. Therefore, copying such made-up 'slang' will only make you seem either...

It's just that although the language taught at schools is meant to be formal, it's just a different type of formal - 'textbook' formal maybe. Even when 'casual' talk appears in the Background Speakers course it's about a generation behind. Japanese is unlike English in that the Japanese language...

a bit odd.. But it is funny that even in Continuers' Course people are taught to speak so strangely. I did Continuers' for 2 months at my school but I was kicked out and so I now do Background Speakers' via correspondence. My girlfriend Masayuki does the same...