his opinions on mecha anime are retarded and it gets funnier every day how stupid he was
Marine complained that she paid for an english course and her teacher wasnt really able to speak any japanese so it was useless when she needed help
Marine paid for an Eikaiwa, which is a conversational school. If you are advanced or a little less, you can benefit greatly. But at this point she isn't good enough, and should start learning the old fashioned way. Basic vocab, simple past, present and future tense. Simple variations. If there's one person that'd benefit from taking an English intensive course, it'd be her, but I doubt she has the 4-6 hours a day required. Basic work is very boring, but necessary to get to the fun stuff.
Japanese is stupidly complex but I think the pure ineffiency of Japanese curriculum is a significant factor as well. A good read nonetheless.
I dunno man about the inefficiency. I mentioned two different institutions (Yamasa and US army language course) and I know another institute that I won't mention for privacy. It also has a 2 year, 4 hours a day, 5 days a week schedule. They all seem to be on the same ballpark, and I don't think it's just inefficiency. Those courses are expensive and are meant for people who want to be speaking fast.
Still, for some reason, people always get pissed off and start mentioning shortcuts when others say that something is very hard and would take long. I bet if I went into a mountaineering forum and said "You need to be a experienced climber to climb the K2" someone would reply "Nah man, just watch some intro vids, run in the mornings and do a 5 week course at your local park. My cousin did it that way."
lol, and to be honest, in this COVID world economy the best we can hope for in 5 years of work is getting promoted from casheer to local manager, so what's the problem with something taking time?