I have this Taiwanese friend Yen-Yu at school and we both take Japanese and we always turn things into a competition( drawing, Japanese, jokes... anything ) and today he thought a great thing would be to have an English teaching competition.

we each give a Japanese friend english lessons and then three months from now we are going to see who can speak better english. You have to speak in Japanese though when you're explaining grammar and such. so what do you guys think of this idea?

Too many confounding variables for a fair contest, but if you're not laying money on it do it if it sounds fun.

Edit: also, make sure both friends involved are comfortable with the idea of being the subject of a contest.

~J

^everybody is used to us being competitive jerks I kind of see it as an advantage really, I give free English lessons to this hot Japanese girl already, she teaches me some Japanese as well ussually, so this means more second language for everybody

and MORE IMPORTANTLY I might win

So your cool idea for learning Japanese is.........teaching English?

Very old Idea. They even have a movie about it. Wans't it the last samurai or something like that?

tokyostyle Wrote:

anon6969 Wrote:So your cool idea for learning Japanese is.........teaching English?

You clearly missed the point.

The point was ... teaching English to a hot Japanese girl.

No, the point, which was stated in the topic, was a cool Japanese learning idea. He -already- deals with that girl all the time anyhow, so this isn't a chance to to get in her パンツ. It's just the same as ever.

I agree with anon that this isn't a 'Japanese learning idea'. If you're teaching English, you aren't learning Japanese from it.

mentat_kgs Wrote:Very old Idea. They even have a movie about it. Wans't it the last samurai or something like that?

LOL!!!!!

In the original post it did say they would teach English in Japanese. Of course it never really works out because the hot girl is always better at English than you are.

I guess it's more "practicing" Japanese than learning.

What if you made it a two-way language exchange contest and had the girls place bets on your Japanese, too?

It depends on too many factors. For instance:

- Are they really hot?
- Are they also using the language as pretext to second intentions?

If they are both 'yes', I wouldn't mind a test ride.