“The Japanese are brilliant “
So are the Koreans. There are many here with electronic and auto industries.
I have two young Korean girl students, 8 and 14.
I will have a lesson with the 8 yr old in the next few hours.
They both go to English schools and have numerous private tutors in other languages, music, and science.
Take pride in what you are doing, introducing these young ‘foreigners’ to the West.
I myself am from Gothenburg, Sweden.
Some months after the former inhabitants of DDR, East Germany, became free to decide upon their own lives, my father’s employer was contacted by an ex-DDR employer doing the same kind of work, wishing to establish a ‘Partnerschaft’.
This ‘partnership’ led to encounters between ‘rich’ Swedes and ‘poor’ Eastern Germans, but even more so to an encounter between FREE Westerners and families who had lived the horrors of the wrong side of the Iron Curtain, still not feeling 100% free to speak their minds.
Individuals can enjoy the bare necessities of life like clothes, food, homes, furniture and even cars and a football team to support and still live in utter hell. This is something important I’ve learned in life.
The Koreans are brilliant.
So are you, Teacher.
And so will ALL of Korea one day be if we keep on Freeping!
Alex, I might have been clearer .. it’s the Japanese govt that’s brilliant in putting together a nationwide program to bring English speaking college grads to teach in their public schools. At all levels, so no matter where in Japan, whether the student is in the top or bottom track, they are learning at least some English.