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Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics (Part 2)
Mangajin's Basic Japanese Through Comics Vol 1Which SilverSpoon do you qualify for? Japanese: If you’re a (serial) beginner, then regular, vanilla SilverSpoon would likely be the best fit for you, if you can get a space. Alternatively, if you already know kana and 2000+ kanji, then you might qualify for entry to SilverSpoon BigBoi. Mandarin: SinoSpoon Want to be the first to know (and get a chance...
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If you think expensive, try ignorance Derek Bok, Bastardized by Khatzumoto “there are golden houses in books and there are beautiful girls in books” Understanding Chinese Culture and Learning Ting Wang University of Canberra, Australia Trying to get used to an L2...
MikeLike on November 17, 2011: You’ve clearly used this method to accomplish great things, so I’m trying to put my skepticism aside… I see how this would apply to...
You don’t know exactly when you’re going to pee, but if you keep drinking, you will pee. So stop freaking out about when you’ll get good or when you’ll start...
0. Zeroth Law: Compare yourself only to yourself. And to newborn babies. 1. The Prime Directive: Have fun. 2. The Promise: Show up. 3. The Triple Path: Don’t learn:...
ニャ@SRS Scoring and Second-Guessing How do you score a card when you had it totally right on first instinct, but then you second-guessed yourself and decided that you were...
“By doing less, and focussing on the one thing that counts, you’re actually doing more.” Momoko “Simplicity is the key to brilliance” Bruce Lee “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”...
Since I was a kid, I’ve had an on-and-off, morbid, intellectual fascination with suicide. I can remember being about seven years old, and asking an adult, probably one of...
To get used to language, you have to kind of embrace a paradox, whereby you: Let go of perfectionism, but you Don’t let go of improvement The way you do...
Ever notice how we like to do things that are easy, and we don’t like to do things that are hard? For example, maybe you aren’t really into this...
MCDs aren’t just for kanji and vocab. Kalek: I learned a lot by making MCDs of the examples in Tae Kim’s guide and some in All About...
Why are MCDs so effective? My hunch (and limited experience) is that MCDs convert into output faster and more accurately than the “original glazed” sentence cards because we’re doing...
The magic of MCDs comes from using super super simple cards to learn complex things. The simplicity can’t be stressed enough. Back in my misled ganbaru days of learning...
Previously I wrote a brief introduction to MCDs, a card format popular at AJATT+. Why use MCDs? Instead of answering that myself, I’ll just quote some forum sempais: ダンちゃん:...
Let it be known that of the MCD Revolution Kit, there are less than four pre-order slots left. Why? To reward those who act early. That’s how we roll here at...
Rigabamboo here with another installment of the best of the AJATT+ forum. We love to rattle on about MCDs on the forum. We’ve been at it ever since Khatzumoto...
In the summer of 2010, I innocently started experimenting with a new SRS technique. Easy, effortless and effective, the technique rapidly ballooned in scope, creatively destroying all that came...
“…beautiful things grow out of s##t” ~Brian Eno, Composer Adults focus too much on technique and too little on volume. Too much on technique and too little on frequency....
Hi, it’s rigabamboo with another AJATT+ gem I found in the forums. Has following AJATT principles changed your life in any way? Besides, y’know, the obvious – becoming awesome...
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Is it in Japanese? Was it made for Japanese people? Then it’s good for your Japanese. Is it boring? Then it’s bad for your Japanese. You like this AJATT...
Update@2011-01-15: It’s not Valentine’s Day anywhere on Earth any more, so this product is no longer available. But maybe you’ll see it again in 2013 . It’s Valentine’s Day,...
Don’t accept anything but the best. Don’t break it down into small pieces. Don’t timebox. Do everything in big time increments. Real work happens in big time increments. Tire...
If you’re trying to get to point X, then the only people whose opinion matters…the only opinions that matter are those of people who’ve been there. And if no...
“All failure comes from trying too hard.” / NAKATANI Akihiro 1 is bigger than 0. Obvious, I know. Common sense, I know. But common sense isn’t common. Common sense...
This is a guest post by Andrew, the handsome man behind How to Learn Spanish Online for Free. But enough from me…let’s let Andrew tell his story! By the...
Rest follows every race. Purge follows every binge. Binge on kanji now, and you might end up having to take a break from them for the rest of your...
Hey, it’s part something-or-other of the Best of AJATT+ Forum series. Today’s post comes from アンソニー, who comes to us with a confession. He learned Japanese the wrong way....
Adults are freaking crazy. “Oh snap, playa! The counter on number of times the Earth has revolved around the Sun since Arbitrarily Decided Religious Event X has changed. Let’s...
Technically, this isn’t so much the best of 2011 as it is the best of each month in 2011. August actually had a bunch of good stuff, but each...
Chris P. (Current SilverSpooner) “Silverspoon has done more to get me learning Japanese again than anything else I have tried in the last 8 years and honestly works a...
School teaches you how to be a commentator: “Charles Barkley, taking it down the center with a strong GODAN VERB in abrupt-plain form, switches it up to an imperative...
In the game of getting used to a language… Try not to have opinions. Opinions are for politicians and voters. Try not to have beliefs. Beliefs are for religions....
0. Zeroth Law: Compare yourself only to yourself. And to newborn babies. 1. The Prime Directive: Have fun. 2. The Promise: Show up. 3. The Triple Path: Don’t learn:...
Hey there, you Lazy Hanzi aficionados! Here is...
For your referential pleasure, I made this little conversion table. That time sure adds up! Decremental Timebox → Real (=Full) Time Conversion Table (Key assumption: 1 minute decrement, so...
e_dub_kendo on “Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards”: Khatz, just to clarify, this applies to the “study aspect” like doing SRS reps, etc, but given any 86,400 second...
Time for another installment of the best of the AJATT+ forum! TripleJ started a topic about deleting cards. So let’s talk about deleting cards. I know we’ve said it a...
Lo! And Chagami sayeth: It doesn’t matter how many kanji you do a day/how many sentences you’re learning/how much vocab you’re picking up, all that matters is that progress is being...
Rigabamboo here with the best of the AJATT+ forum. Do you like DDR? Yes? Okay, great. I have good news for you. You’re going to play DDR. I’m going...
Learning a language is like committing murder. Although all forms of murder basically amount to suffocation, immolation, stabbing (direct organ and tissue damage) or “overwhelming the immune response”, there...
You deserve better. I don’t really think that. But it totally sounded like the kind of thing that would stroke your ego. So I said it. I’ll tell you...
“Average ones compete with others. Great ones compete with themselves.” Vadim Kotelnikov 「我々は、どちらかといえば、幸福になるためよりも、幸福だと人に思わせる為に四苦八苦しているのである。」 ラ・ロシュフコー “There is nothing noble about being superior to some other man. The true nobility is...
People, I am sick and phequing tired of hearing it. Whether on the Internets or in RL, if Japanese is the topic of discussion, there always seems to be...
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