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Archive for March, 2008

Understanding The News: James’ Success Story

March 30, 2008
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A while back, I wrote an article on how to teach yourself to understand Japanese (TV) news to basically 100% comprehension. Essentially a “how I did it and how you can, too”. A young, virile, extremely good-looking man named James followed that advice. This is his story, in his own words, with some extra formatting/editing added by yours truly:...

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KhatzuMemo Update — Item Warning, Swap QA et. al

March 29, 2008
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Nations of the world, lift up your heads! For KhatzuMemo has been updated. These are the new features: Edit Item Fix My webhost recently upgraded to a newer version of PHP, and so some of the code involved with page transitions had to be updated. You may have noticed that you were enable to edit items from a question...

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How To Learn and Review Kanji Using an SRS

March 16, 2008
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For reference purposes, let’s discuss how one would learn kanji (meaning and writing only) using an SRS. It’s quite simple, really. The question section (the front of the “SRS electronic flash card”) contains the keyword (core meaning) of the kanji and the mnemonic story that links the structural components of the character to the keyword — and also pictures,...

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More Japanese Websites

March 9, 2008
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You know, one of the things we take for granted is knowing what websites to visit. When you’re trying to immerse yourself in a language, you may not know where to go on the internets for good stuff to read. Well, here I am to save the day again, with more website recommendations. A friend of a friend (actually,...

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Chinese Project Notes 9: Making Your Own Music

March 2, 2008
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So, I was sitting at the train station, about to go to the starting point of one of my epic walks, listening to my meager collection of Cantonese hip-hop which consisted (consists?) entirely of the few LMF songs I was able to scrape together. But I was really enjoying it, and realizing that I understood a lot of the...

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