Ayaka Sensei

Day 161: When the student becomes the teacher

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September 5th 2008
One of my students Ayaka came to class early today, so were practicing reading together. She was telling me how hard she was finding it and I said that I understood, I can't read any Japanese at all, so she's doing really well and all those other teacherly things which completely threw her off track. "You can't read Japanese?" she asked me "Nope" I replied cheerfully "Not even your name? ... read more

Asia » Japan » Saitama

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In 1603, a Tokugawa shogunate (military dictatorship) ushered in a long period of isolation from foreign influence in order to secure its power. For 250 years this policy enabled Japan to enjoy stability and a flowering of its indigenous culture. Fol... ... read more