Flops over sideways
Soon I’ll get to go home and more importantly eat something. Cos I stupidly packed down and deep cleaned everything in the kitchen several hours ago… ☠️ anything I cook now will make mess.
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I might make a poll or something to help me decide what to dedicate my energy towards once I'm finished penning these little essays I've got cooking.
Decision would be between finishing Coil, writing mini domestic fics I've been tossing concepts around for, and maybe drawing.
I also have longer fic concepts I'd like to play around with, but I'd prefer to finish Coil first before doing those.
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Do you prefer self studying or studying with a tutor
I feel like they accomplish different purposes and are not in any way mutually exclusive. I take classes with tutors, but I also do a lot of self-study.
For me, there are two ways a tutor can function:
1) As someone to introduce concepts
2) As a resource for practising productive language and getting feedback
If you study exclusively with a tutor without doing self-study, your progress will be very limited. When I was teaching on italki, it was always painfully obvious which students expected to get fluent in English just by coming to my classes once or twice a week because they never improved. Even now, working with kids in a classroom environment, it's clear which ones study outside the classroom, which ones engage with native content and which ones don't bother. I would say you can learn a language more effectively through self-study alone than with a tutor/classes alone.
That being said, I do like having a tutor. I like having someone who is being paid to sit through my shit grammar and help me express my thoughts coherently. I like having someone who can answer my questions about the differences between A and B. Some people can happily talk to native speakers and ask strangers on apps to help them do that, but I would never be so bold lmao.
I also mentioned a tutor can introduce concepts. I found this really helpful when I first decided to get more serious about Japanese because Japanese is so different from my native language that I felt kinda lost trying to self-study. Having a tutor guiding me through a structured syllabus gave me a better idea of the language's foundations and how to apply some of the grammar I'd kinda half-learned myself. When I was B1/B2 in Norwegian, I wasn't really sure what I needed to learn or improve on and I struggled to see progress, so having a course to follow really helped me at that time.
BUT… having said that… I don't like group classes, especially for beginners. I would take self-study with no tutor over going on a course (generally speaking). The reason being such courses are designed to be as generic as possible in order to be relevant to as many people as possible. So instead of learning how to talk about topics I'm interested in, I'm forced to talk about shit like my family (no thank you), work (fine if you have a 9-5, not if your job is unconventional), sport (I don't play sports) and going to the cinema (I don't watch movies). For my Spanish exam a couple of years ago I had to write "advice for having the perfect party" and I was like do I LOOK like I go to parties. So I find them super boring. Not to mention 90% of the class is going over what a basic grammar concepts in English are or listening to my classmates slowly and painfully mispronounce everything.
So, in answer to your question… I prefer having a tutor to not having a tutor. But self-study is absolutely necessary even with a tutor, and I'd personally choose self-study over a generic "one size fits all" course.
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