The Milkman's Sister
Apr. 24th, 2008 11:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
parasitegirlThe Milkman's sister is out, and I have been given the computer. I feel that I must make use of it, even though I can't think of much to say...it's either this or back to the studying Japanese. There are only so many hours I can put behind a textbook.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, polishing up my grammar is essential for communication in all my walks of life, but my essential issue with textbooks have not changed: they reflect a life that is not my own. It's like learning to cook exotic vegetarian dishes by reading a traditional German cookbook.
I realize that not all my study can be fun texts and podcasts, but why must so many textbooks take the life out of a language?
I've recently gone up a level in one of the better textbook series and am finding myself a little lost. All of a sudden we've become even more distant from my life. Suddenly I've gone from the passive inconveniences of Mr. Yoshida drinking all my booze, which I can relate to, or the joys of receiving the ability to leave work 5 minutes early from my kind boss to this new place...a land with a lot of thesis papers on the general state of the economy and the merits of each one. People keep debating the big things, and I still can't explain my various feelings about Japanese Shoe Culture or why being around me might drive Mr. Yoshida to drink?
It reminds me a lot of poor Yan-San and the semester we watched him go from the ideal Japan to the Japan that lead to his breakdown.
Where is the textbook that holds my interest? I think I need one in which the sample sentances takes me to a land of variously social akward people wherein we debate the merits and detractors of the relationships that each one has found themselves in and what options they may have now!
Yeah, yeah, yeah, polishing up my grammar is essential for communication in all my walks of life, but my essential issue with textbooks have not changed: they reflect a life that is not my own. It's like learning to cook exotic vegetarian dishes by reading a traditional German cookbook.
I realize that not all my study can be fun texts and podcasts, but why must so many textbooks take the life out of a language?
I've recently gone up a level in one of the better textbook series and am finding myself a little lost. All of a sudden we've become even more distant from my life. Suddenly I've gone from the passive inconveniences of Mr. Yoshida drinking all my booze, which I can relate to, or the joys of receiving the ability to leave work 5 minutes early from my kind boss to this new place...a land with a lot of thesis papers on the general state of the economy and the merits of each one. People keep debating the big things, and I still can't explain my various feelings about Japanese Shoe Culture or why being around me might drive Mr. Yoshida to drink?
It reminds me a lot of poor Yan-San and the semester we watched him go from the ideal Japan to the Japan that lead to his breakdown.
Where is the textbook that holds my interest? I think I need one in which the sample sentances takes me to a land of variously social akward people wherein we debate the merits and detractors of the relationships that each one has found themselves in and what options they may have now!
