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Archive for November, 2007

How Many Languages? + Abandoning a Language After Bad Experiences

November 29, 2007
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Comments are posted, questions are asked, responses get long and become articles. Are you of the school of thought that a person can only learn X languages to complete fluency? Perhaps that was a bad explanation, but I guess would you say that you can use your method multiple times for different languages or would you advise a student...

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Don’t Do The Language, BE The Language

November 26, 2007
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I can read your mind. “Oh my gosh, I only did X reps today!”. “Oh my gosh, more sentences, more sentences”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t even know how to order tempura yet!”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t know all the varieties of ramen yet”. Chill. The heck. Out. “Oh, Deity! Japanese has N thousand kanji, each with R...

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Real Sample Sentences

November 18, 2007
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Hey! So, I’ve put up example sentences in “sentence starter packs” before, but, I don’t think any of those were actually sentences that I had personally used before. Just to give you an idea of what life is really like on the streets of my SRS, here are some examples of sentences that I’ve entered over the past few...

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Does Input REALLY work?

November 13, 2007
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This another question/comment where the response grew really long. Here goes: Hey Khatz A quick question when you get back from your break. When I started using my SRS, I entered the English sentence in the question field and the Japanese translation in the answer field. But after reading your method on this site, I no longer try to...

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Programming Break

November 6, 2007
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Hello! So…there are a lot of features that need adding on KhatzuMemo, and it’s time at least some of them got added. My time management skills at this point are still at the level of “do one thing at a time” [which, ironically, is about the same level they were at 3 years ago when this Japanese thing started,...

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