>>11604317not explicitly, it's just that the book has a really bad habit of teaching everything as "this is how it would translate into english in this context" and explicitly spelling out grammar rules then tailoring exercises to let you use those things in exactly the structures they've shown you so far the best example i have of this is actually from the next chapter because i've been reading ahead of the class schedule.
it talks about prepositions which are super simple. you just say [Thing you're referencing]の[Preposition] and you have a prepositional phrase as in [School]の[Behind] is "behind the school". you can use prepositional phrases just like you'd expect for other parts of speech as in "the dog is [behind the school]" or "i'm going to eat [behind the school]"
instead of explaining it that way it basically says "if you want to say the location of a noun using a preposition then you should use this sentence and plug in the appropriate words. if instead you want to say someone is doing something in a location using a preposition you should use THIS sentence and plug in the appropriate words."
it just makes it so unnecessarily difficult to understand why things are the way they are. you don't get a grasp for what a prepositional phrase is so when it comes time to use one outside of those two exact contexts it's impossible to figure out how to do it unless you've gone out of your way to reverse engineer all the grammar. of course the book then never presents you with any questions that might make you think outside of that context so there's no risk of you actually trying to think of a real sentence you'd actually say to a person for something other than practice.
it just develops this really horrible mindset of trying to translate everything into english to understand it and trying to memorize structures instead of trying to actually break down or build a sentence from words.
sleep tight
