Actually, I'm pretty sure a snail would be faster so I'll have to think of something else to compare the class to if I want to express how bad it is now. The teachers are going into review mode, which I normally love because the pace doesn't leave much room for understanding. It's like trying to read a novel that's plastered on billboards while you're cruising down the high way at 55 mph. You can pick out a few words, maybe get the gist, but you miss a lot. The reason this is such a let down is because once this week ends we will come back to a placement exam with almost no time to prepare. To add insult to injury, the lower class is still a chapter and change ahead of my own class.
I still haven't picked up a real crystal clear explanation of the grading criteria for the interview yet either. One of the students said we had to use polite Japanese and another said we have to go all out with honorifics. That's a pretty big gap and the conversation wouldn't even sound the same so I can see how one or the other would explain the earlier low marks I received. Basically, my main goal for the summer break is to spend a few days in Hiroshima and then cram a good eight or ten hours a day with Japanese review. If it sounds like a broken record in my blog lately, it's because this pep talk is mostly for my own benefit.
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