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steki47
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Yeah, he's anti-meat. He stands outside Macdonalds and KFC and shouts "murderers!" on some days. This is true!  He also got kicked out of his last apartment for keeping pets and setting fire to the notices telling him to remove his pets.  He also stapled the notices to his landlords door. |
I have met a few zealous vegetarians in Japan. I have no problem with vegetarianism per se, but some of those types seem like the post-modern version of the Ugly American as they go into other cultures and bag on the local cuisine.
Oh, and behavior like the above doesn't exactly boost the Japanese image of foreigners, either. Thanks, bud!  |
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Tsian
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Wow... I missed the one about pets and fires. Clearly the guy is just a PITA to deal with regardless of where he is.
I wonder if he is one of the subjects that was studied for the charisma man article  |
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TokyoLiz
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| Posted: Mon Jul 02, 2012 11:51 pm Post subject: Sounds like he has few coping mechanisms |
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It sounds like the guy has some serious mental or emotional problems. Why don't you slip him the phone number for counselling under his door or in his mail box?
http://www.telljp.com/ |
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Cool Teacher
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| Posted: Tue Jul 03, 2012 1:16 am Post subject: Re: Sounds like he has few coping mechanisms |
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It sounds like the guy has some serious mental or emotional problems. Why don't you slip him the phone number for counselling under his door or in his mail box?
http://www.telljp.com/ |
Wine drinking at the Austrialian embassy? I can see that going very badly!!! 
Just kidding. Thansk I'll try to get it to people who know him. Its more them who are worreid than me although I worry about our reputation thanks to wildboy! |
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Flip-Flopper
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| Weird. Just don't let it get to you. Why let it? |
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Mrguay84
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| I just watched "The Cove". |
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Cool Teacher
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| I just watched "The Cove". |
Did it make you anti-Japanese?  |
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Mrguay84
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| Posted: Sat Jul 07, 2012 10:19 am Post subject: |
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| I just watched "The Cove". |
Did it make you anti-Japanese? |
Yes, even more so than the time I saw the shocking Japanese 'teaching methods' as used in Legend of the Overfiend. |
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Cool Teacher
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| Cool Teacher wrote: |
| Mrguay84 wrote: |
| I just watched "The Cove". |
Did it make you anti-Japanese? |
Yes, even more so than the time I saw the shocking Japanese 'teaching methods' as used in Legend of the Overfiend. |
I dont know it but I understand grammar-translaiton is very unpopular and old-fashioned. But that's why we are here to help teach English better. I think we shodl welcome the chance!  |
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jim_brava
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In Bangkok, I once had a US Army guy rant at me about how "the Chinese are all f**king racists".
He was totally unaware of the hypocrisy of this statement. |
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Cool Teacher
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In Bangkok, I once had a US Army guy rant at me about how "the Chinese are all f**king racists".
He was totally unaware of the hypocrisy of this statement. |
Yeah some guy told me that blacks are more racist than us (he meant white people).  Toatl racist! |
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steki47
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Yeah some guy told me that blacks are more racist than us (he meant white people). Toatl racist! |
Bit OT here, but take a look at FBI data on interracial crime. Black on white vs. white on black is 8:1. |
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teacheratlarge
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| I dont know it but I understand grammar-translaiton is very unpopular and old-fashioned. But that's why we are here to help teach English better. I think we shodl welcome the chance! |
Where did you get that idea? One of the speakers at the JALT annual conference I saw a few years ago talked about how he does yakudoku (direct translation exercises) every class (not the whole class, in his defense)..this guy is a tenured Japanese professor and well published author of language articles in Japan.
No, grammar-translation is still very much here to stay, hence why we have some built in job security. Students are still spending sometimes 8 years studying grammar/translation and still can't get much beyond greetings and simple answers to basic questions. |
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Cool Teacher
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| I dont know it but I understand grammar-translaiton is very unpopular and old-fashioned. But that's why we are here to help teach English better. I think we shodl welcome the chance! |
Where did you get that idea? One of the speakers at the JALT annual conference I saw a few years ago talked about how he does yakudoku (direct translation exercises) every class (not the whole class, in his defense)..this guy is a tenured Japanese professor and well published author of language articles in Japan.
No, grammar-translation is still very much here to stay, hence why we have some built in job security. Students are still spending sometimes 8 years studying grammar/translation and still can't get much beyond greetings and simple answers to basic questions. |
Yeah, that's what I mean. For us grammar translation is very unpopular and unfashionable which is why Mrguay84 was shocked by the methods he saw and that's why we're here to teach something different.  |
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steki47
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| Posted: Mon Jul 09, 2012 7:24 am Post subject: |
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| No, grammar-translation is still very much here to stay, hence why we have some built in job security. Students are still spending sometimes 8 years studying grammar/translation and still can't get much beyond greetings and simple answers to basic questions. |
Conversation school work will always be there as long as grammar translation is the norm in the schools. I'm an ALT and I can see some merit in structured input (including yakudoku), but still think that more opportunities for authentic, meaningful communication should be expanded.
Not sure what percentages those two should be and I'm not the one who decides. My head JTE clearly prefers controlled, grammar-focused lessons and so that's what we do. |
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