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Cards you’re ambivalent about are worse than cards that you hate. Cards you hate get acted on instantly, but the ones you’re ambivalent about are allowed to accumulate until they outnumber the ones you love, and then the whole language, your whole life just...
The problem with learning an ancestral or “heritage” language is that it takes just as much effort as learning any other language, except that you get no credit whatsoever for doing it well (and it’s happily assumed that you basically got it “for free”,...
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Social Resistance“…the yeoman work in any science…is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.” ~ Michio...
This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Intermediate AngstThe journey of getting used to a language is so psychologically long that it can’t merely be a...
Stop trying to read in massive chunks of time Most of life is waiting. Most of life is disjoint snippets of time: two, three, five minutes here or there. That’s...
So, apparently, a Batman movie came out last year and it was a big deal? Haha. No, I watched it and loved it. I wish Christopher Nolan were in...
The Moe Dictionary is a monolingual Chinese dictionary. I think it’s relatively new(?) and it seems pretty cool. I like it so far. Here’s a bookmarklet for it: MoeDict/萌...
This entry is part 10 of 10 in the series Intermediate Angst“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” ~ Walter Elliot...
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Grinding: Focus On What You CAN Do
This entry is part 5 of 10 in the series Intermediate AngstOften enough, a comment puts it much better than I ever put it. This was one such situation....
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