{"id":172,"date":"2008-07-21T14:41:08","date_gmt":"2008-07-21T21:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=274"},"modified":"2008-07-21T14:41:08","modified_gmt":"2008-07-21T21:41:08","slug":"another-approach-to-the-textbook","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2008\/07\/21\/another-approach-to-the-textbook\/","title":{"rendered":"Another approach to the textbook"},"content":{"rendered":"

I haven’t been spending as much time as I’d like on the textbook project and I think I’ve figured out the reason why. It’s just not turning out the way I like and therefore I don’t feel any excitement about working on it.<\/p>\n

I’ve been approaching it the traditional style, basing the dialogue on lesson themes such as introductions and greetings. The problem is that it’s nearly impossible to make any kind of interesting dialogue with those kinds of themes. How many more books do we need with the same old dialogue as below?<\/p>\n

A)\u3000\u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u304a\u3052\u3093\u304d\u3067\u3059\u304b\uff1f
\nB)\u3000\u304a\u306f\u3088\u3046\u3054\u3056\u3044\u307e\u3059\u3002\u306f\u3044\u3001\u3052\u3093\u304d\u3067\u3059\u3002A\u3055\u3093\u306f\uff1f
\nA)\u3000\u308f\u305f\u3057\u3082\u3001\u3052\u3093\u304d\u3067\u3059\u3002<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I think I’m going to take time to think about another approach. One idea I had was to write all the dialogues first and based the book around them. Each chapter would break each dialogue down and work on practicing and expanding the concepts and grammar within the dialogue. Each dialogue would also build upon the previous one and grow more and more advanced. I know, it’s probably easier said than done, but I think my first goal should be creating a large selection of useful and interesting Japanese and less on the explanations.<\/p>\n

Ultimately, my goal is to grab the reader and get him hooked<\/i> from the very beginning. And what I have now just isn’t cutting it. Any suggestions for topics, characters, and story lines?<\/p>\n

By the way, some of you may have noticed already but I added a new Feedback page<\/a>. It’s currently empty but I hope to build it as a page for your feedback (duh).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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