Developing Lesson Material with an Italki Teacher

Japanese
#1

I have worked through Quartet II with my italki teacher over the last six months. It has provided an excellent, structured format for our lessons but within the next few weeks, I’ll have finished literally everything in the textbook.

I’m a little lost as to how to formulate a lesson plan from here. My goal is N2 this December, but I’m not sure what our study sessions should look like from here until then.

I’m really not sure where to go from here, but I appreciate having a teacher to correct my mistakes and answer questions I have.

Does anyone have any advice on how to set up my lessons now? Conversation? Essays? Reading books/articles and discussing together?

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#2

What’s your goal? What do you need to improve to reach it.
Then have a discussion with the teacher.
Sorry for such a simple unhelpful answer.
It might help you if you elaborate more on the thread, writing might help you reflect a bit.

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#3

Yeah, the best way to go is to suggest activities that’ll inch you closer to the goal. For myself, I might ask an instructor to listen to me as I read a light novel. Or I might watch a TV show concurrently with them. In one session, I asked them to help me write an e-mail that I was already planning to write. Since my weakest area is speaking, what I do most often is just make a list of questions in advance and make small talk off of them.

If you’re trying to learn N2 grammar, maybe just go through grammar points on Bunpro or in the Handbook of Japanese Grammar and read them out loud to the teacher? I’ve done that before. Or ask how native speakers use certain words? Just today I asked two native speakers where they see the word 沙汰 because I checked multiple dictionaries and couldn’t get a handle on it.

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#4

I would say if your goal is N2 and it’s a thing you’re specifically aiming towards, grabbing prep books for the competencies that you want to work on and go through those on your own time - mark your difficulties and questions and then go through those with your teacher. I believe shin kanzen master is the series that is really popular?

That’s more specifically test prep though, if there are other things you want to work towards it’d be important to clarify those before coming up with any sort of plan.

So, for N2 test prep, keep doing what you were doing but with a different set of manuals

For general language learning, you’d have to reflect on what competencies you want to improve most and which of those would be most efficiently assisted by the time you have with your teacher.

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