Teaching Japanese.

Teaching has 2 paths. Easy, or hard. Each path varies depending on to whom your are teaching, what you are teaching, and what resources you have to work with. Teaching Japanese online is what I do. Since there are no direct face to face contact, the element of intimidation between teacher and student is eliminated. The resources for teaching this subject can be found very easily, thanks to this resourceful web-site. With the free educational videos to the intuitive free lessons, TheJapanesePag has got just about everything! This all sounds like an endorsement to the web-site, but it's the truth. I am so glad that this web-site exists to that I can teach with confidence with the right resources to back me up. Teaching also has it's advantages and its disadvantages. One advantage would be that you, the teacher, know that you're doing something productive with your life and not wasting it. A disadvantage is that you take all of the responsibility of your students for what they learn and don't learn. If they fail in the subject you teach, people will think that it's the teacher's fault. And most of the time it is. But there are some occasions were it's the student's fault. The teacher cannot control the level of interest in the student taking the class which ultimately contributes to the student's participation level in the class. If they're not interested, they'll never want to get involved. That's why I try to make my classes as interesting and intuitive as possible. I accomplish this by teaching over an online social-game known as Habbo. You can go to Habbo by going to www. Habbo.com. My username on there is Sugarcube888. I do caution you though, even though there are censors to prevent swear words from reaching users, people have found ways around them. As a moral person, I choose to ignore the foul marks. Well, I guess this is all I wanted to say about teaching. To conclude, I'll end with a word of advice for all of the future (or new) teachers out there. Get into your curriculum. Sure it may be a little more work but it's definitely worth it. It's always best to live out what you teach.

David Honeycutt
ダヴィダ　ホニクッツ