Once I started teaching English, I began to understand Japanese as well

Here, I will distinguish between 'Kokugo (Japanese as a school subject)' and 'Japanese (the language itself)'***Recently, ...
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Learning grammar is just as important as it always was but the way we teach it has changed

Many students returning to school this year face a renewed focus on grammar. Just before Christmas, the NSW curriculum was overhauled to include the “explicit teaching of grammar, sentence structure ...