Comments on: Help Me Help You: What Can I Do to Serve You Better?

By: John Fotheringham

Mon, 09 Mar 2015 16:37:00 +0000

Hi Janelle. Thank you for getting in touch. That’s great that your children are learning Japanese! I don’t know of any kid-specific Japanese conversation sites, but you should be able to find a good tutor on iTalki (they do say in their terms of service that you are supposed to be over 13 years of age, but it shouldn’t be a problem if you are the one to set up the account and find the tutor).

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By: Janelle S

Mon, 02 Mar 2015 16:49:00 +0000

I bookmarked the Master Japanese Guide a little over a year ago, when it looked like my husband’s company might relocate us to Japan for several years. In preparation for that move, we enrolled our pre-school child in a Japanese immersion school here in the US. The move fell through, but we kept her in the school. Now that’s she’s about to age out of the school (it only goes through kindergarten), we’re left wondering how we continue to support her Japanese since we don’t speak it at all. (I confess, I’m not terribly motivated to learn. I’m more interested in Portuguese and Korean.)

Her current school offers weekly tutoring for the kids who leave the program until age 14 (where, presumably, the students are better served by the Japanese program at the local high school). We hope to take up the tutoring, but that’s still reducing her current 15 hours a week of Japanese immersion to 2 hours of classroom instruction.

Do you know of any kid-friendly online resources for conversation practice? I thought about italki, but I’m unsure if there’s an age guideline for the site and others like it.

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By: joker159

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 19:25:00 +0000

wow, yes it’ll be outstanding ! like a kickstarter for learning the target language 🙂

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By: John Fotheringham

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 18:51:00 +0000

Excellent idea! I like the deconstruction method and think this could really help folks get started in new languages without getting bogged down with too much information. Perhaps I can create them as downloadable one-pagers.

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By: joker159

Thu, 14 Nov 2013 11:42:00 +0000

hello John!

you quote Tim : he talk about deconstruting the language, why not deconstruct every major language here 🙂

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