Season ONE: Dazai Osamu, Daffodil

Day 25

May 15, 2025

Today, pretty much in line with the normal flow of the program, I dove into the Pacing & Structure worksheet.

Right away, things feel familiar, and yet… um, challenging. With the more difficult kanji and vocabulary, I’m left to focus on what I’m seeing in the instructional sense. Pedagogy…, as it relates to the way the pacing and structure worksheet works on the whole—as a device we use to make the sentencing more clear. So, today, I’m forced to report on how things work from the perspective of the student. I’m forced to ask:

What is it this thing is trying to teach me?

And…

… I don’t have a quick answer to that question.
Because there is no quick answer to that question.

These Pacing & Structure worksheets appear nowhere in your run of the mill textbook. Nowhere…, anywhere…, online. In no forum…, nowhere.

And the reason for that is because there is nothing else in the world like them. I kid you not.

The granular nature of these worksheets is unmatched, and without an an independent Japanese tutor skilled in this method, you will miss out on the entire idea that prompted the development of these worksheets. With such a tutor, the questions you have will be anticipated by your instructor, before they spill from your mouth

I, of course, have the benefit of working with Instructor #1, Reiko.

There are other options.

I might recommend one gent on this day… May 15, 2025 –> Andy Foord. He is my “second” tutor, and a BEAST. Your Japanese language learning friends will be jealous.

NOTES!

Today’s notes will likely make little sense to you. UX related things and the questions I ran into that Reiko was able to succinctly address, but which I was unable to equally explain here to night with said succinctness..

Tomorrow is another day.

Join us, eh?
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Time spent: @ 1 hour
Completed Anki deck: Yep.
Start time: 9:23pm
End time: 10:20pm