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Originally Posted by Columbine
I do the exact same thing at my local school. Forget about writing characters; trying to teach 90 'kana will take literally ALL your time, and they'll forget it in a flash.
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At my stepkid school (middle school) they introduced this year a program which gives them a basic knowledge of many languages (pretty useless if u ask me
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Anyway with just 3 or 4 lessons they didn't even touch the kana (I doubt the teacher knew them anyway). They would just introduce some basic greetings and introductory phrase, asking and thanking...this sorta things. LOL when they did Italian he corrected his teacher coz he heard the correct words directly from me...so please don't teach wrong Japanese
My daughter is 5 years old and she heard few words from me in Japanese like dad, mom, tree and a couple more and she remembers them. But as per recognizing and memorizing the kana will take too long. I agree with the fact you will have to use romaji...but for sure show them the different kana (they will be just mesmerized in seeing you write kana on the blackboard LOL).
HEY...they might even like my way of writing kana, which is probably compared to a 6 year old Japanese kid LOL.