{"id":7601,"date":"2009-07-24T09:17:13","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/?p=7601"},"modified":"2009-07-25T09:18:52","modified_gmt":"2009-07-25T13:18:52","slug":"the-japanese-doctor-learning-language-effectively-choose-your-own-goal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jetwit.com\/wordpress\/2009\/07\/24\/the-japanese-doctor-learning-language-effectively-choose-your-own-goal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Japanese Doctor: Learning Language Effectively – Choose Your Own Goal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Japanese Doctor<\/strong> <\/em><\/strong>is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills<\/strong>, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning<\/strong> (<\/em>www.hillslearning.com<\/em><\/a>). \"doc<\/em><\/p>\n

Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese and Chinese language learning options. Their main service is private one on one language lessons in the NYC area.<\/em><\/p>\n

The easiest way to measure how effective education is is test scores. When students score high on tests it not only makes teachers look good, but schools overall will be more likely to get government funding with higher test scores. Traditionally tests are the easiest way to measure the abilities of a student, but are they effective when learning a language?<\/p>\n

Take the case of Japanese, and for simplicity\u2019s sake we\u2019ll refer to the main test administered by the Japanese government, the JLPT or Japanese Language Proficiency Test. It\u2019s actually a great and simple goal to work towards, passing the JLPT. The benefits are numerous…<\/p>\n

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The Japanese Doctor is a recurring feature written by Friend Of JET, Jon Hills, who maintains the blog for Hills Learning (www.hillslearning.com). Hills Learning is a NY-based language learning services company offering customized and personal Japanese and Chinese language learning options. Their main service is private one on one language lessons in the NYC area. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7601","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t