1、Ben自学了很多种语言，但他的方法对日本人有时并不适用，因为他们的学习方法和欧洲大不同。Ben: It helps in that I have insight to how somebody learning a foreign language needs things explained because Ive learned 4 myself. However in some ways it doesnt help because the Japanese learner, the Japanese sort of mind, and how they learn languages
2、is so very different from anywhere in Europe or South America so activities that would work really well with a European western, South American audience, or South American class, dont seem to work at all due to some of the differences in Japanese and Western culture.Eli: Do you think the whole sort
3、of Japanese schooling system is very different? Ben: Its extremely different.Eli: How is that? Ben: I havent got a great insight into it but I think the kids have to work a lot harder here. All, I teach a lot of high school children and theyre often coming to my lesson, in between their breaks betwe
4、en cram school, on a national holiday, in the summer holiday. When I was a kid Id be playing in the park and beating up girls up the street with a wooden stick or something.Eli: And do you reckon that is kind of passed on with the of work society here, like sort of similar sort working, or? Ben: Yea
5、h, I suppose so. I think a lot is expected of them all throughout there lives. Two of my neighbors are both salarymen, and they often are arriving at home very very late, and a lot more is expected of the Japanese staff at the school than is of the western staff. Theyll often ask them to do jobs that take twice as long as what they ask us. I dont know whether that is because they expect the Japanese staff can do more, or they just think were stupid, which some of us are!
