@cypher Ah yes when I go to a supermarket, I see 「オージービーフ」as well as 「豪州産」「オーストラリア産」 at the meat counter t3.gstatic.com/… and I sometimes see オージービーフ written on the menu at a steakhouse rasinban-za.com/12010004_yebisu.jpg
I have seen many people say オージーイングリッシュ for オーストラリア(の)英語 on Yahoo Answers Japan(知恵袋)
since on top of that, this would immediately make your date useless for any export, and not particularly better for the domestic market. why in the world would you do it?
I get that some things in Japan do not easily make sense from a foreign point of view... but can we still assume that Japanese are not completely crazy?
Though it did have a lot of group and class exercises which I simply had to skip, or act schitzofrenic which of course would work too. (but not be very fun perhaps)
When I was in class I thought I had a great teacher because I learned so much. Then we progressed past Genki II, and I realized that my teacher was awful unless he was teaching out of it
I had another teacher for another subject who thought teaching out of a textbook meant to re-read what we had just read for homework in class. Also not helpful. I had her in other classes and she was a good teacher for that, but that one class...
That's just me rambling
@gibbon We...talked about what my teacher wanted to talk about, we watched some Drama episodes and and to transcribe some scenes for homework
We read books in class, and that was a whole failed experiment on my teacher's part and I could get into it, but suffice to say I learned more that year from watching J-drama then from going to class
Also, my teacher had favorites and wasn't subtle about it, which, among other things just made me hate learning Japanese for a while
Also, if you can type in Japanese, you'll find an IME Pad, where you can write them out using your mouse and look it up that way (via google translate, or what-have-you)
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