Editing Openai/6916afae-6ae0-800a-b91e-f4c494caf364 (section)

=== User: clarifications: ===
clarifications:
i) Let's try it without the furigana.  If I don't know the kanji, then I will say so.  Maybe I will snip it and say "ひらがな下さい!" If I still don't know the word, I will ask for the English word.
ii) You can mix up polite and plain, but better to start polite since Genki teaches plain form around chapter 8 or so.  After that, mix it all up.
iii) The grammar section is so you can see what the book expects me to know for the exercises.  You don't need to write a summary unless you can think of something cool to say about it outside of what the book has.  The website tofugu.com has great articles that are far more illuminating than textbooks, so if you want to pull interesting tidbits from the internet that could add more context and flavor to the grammar understanding, please do - I don't need a summary of the textbook though.

Lastly, the disadvantage I had with my tutor is that we only met once a week for 50 minutes.  This meant we only saw new concepts and often didn't back up and reinforce the old ones...so I might learn new concepts and forget the old ones because I am not using them, so please continuously reuse all the old grammar concepts we have used up until the point we are currently at.

After each upload, you can make some small comments - or like I said add some deeper context to grammar.  The heavy lifting will be when we do the exercises together and most time will be spent there.  It may take some time for me to get the muscle memory working of me typing in Japanese and switching back and forth to english typing etc.