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Archive for December, 2007

Japanese Websites: Learning To Ask Questions, and Getting Answers

December 29, 2007
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OK, so…let’s make this one short and sweet. Asking questions is one of the most important things you can do in a language. You have to know how to ask questions in a variety of ways, depending on the social situation, the amount of knowledge you have, whether or not you give the answerer “response options” to choose from,...

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Top 10 Best Japanese Comedians

December 25, 2007
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Top 10 Best Japanese Comedians

First, let me say this: it sucks being famous and having snot-nosed kids like me who don’t know what they’re talking about make stupid comments about you. I think that almost all (if not all) the comedians on Japanese TV are funny, I just picked the ones that gave me the highest LPM (laughs per minute). Probably the main...

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Cute Girls, Mathematics, Language

December 21, 2007
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Recently, I met this one girl. She’s really cute. And she knows Japanese. Fluently. Native-level fluently. After only studying it four years. She talks circles around people who studied it for four years in college. Why is this girl so good at Japanese? Because she spent 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a years studying...

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KhatzuMemo Update: Changes To Same-Day Repetition Scheduling + Slashes on Quotes

December 19, 2007
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We will fight them on the beaches! So…a feature that was annoying a lot of people was the whole “make you do an item a kajillion times over” plan. That has now been changed, so that if you get an item wrong, even if it gets set to be re-tested on the same day (rather than at a later...

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Book Review: Absolutely DO NOT Study English! A Korean AntiMoon in Japanese

December 17, 2007
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Book Review: Absolutely DO NOT Study English! A Korean AntiMoon in Japanese

Let’s keep this one short. Every so often in the history of humankind, a book comes along that will forever change us. Or not, I don’t know. But really, every few weeks or so, I find a book that is just so perfect that it’s as if it was written just for me to read it (you: “yeah, no...

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The Top 10 Best Japanese TV Shows Of Recent Times

December 13, 2007
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First off, let me share that I believe that everyone should, no MUST, follow their own personal preferences when it comes to selecting learning materials. In order for you to learn Japanese voluntarily, it has to be enjoyable, and for it to be enjoyable, you have to be able to watch, listen to and read whatever you want that...

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