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Archive for June, 2008

Reader Story: Three Months of Sentences

June 29, 2008
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Everyone loves a success story. I know I do. When I was learning Japanese hardcore, I looked high and low for stories of other people’s journeys. Anyway, here’s one from a reader who goes by the handle Awkward Map on this site. He’s finished RTK (Remembering the Kanji) and is now three months into sentences. The following are his...

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Japanese Learner Success Stories

June 26, 2008
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Yo. There’s a lot of misconception out there about the supposed difficulty of Japanese. There’s a lot of misconception about Japan itself. And here I am preaching to you about misconception, but I grew up with kung-fu movies, too, just like you. I thought all East Asians knew martial arts, ate rice (wait, this one’s true!), meditated daily on...

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Japanese Websites: Japanese AudioBooks with Transcripts

June 23, 2008
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I saw this page from How To Learn Any Language a while ago (it might be that someone put it in comments) but neglected to link to it despite how cool it is: a headshot jackpot mother lode of Japanese audio materials with transcripts. They range from children’s books to some more, what’s the word, anyway, there’s a lot...

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Popping Bubblewrap: Tips for Better SRS Sentence Items

June 22, 2008
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First of all, an admission of guilt. I have misled you. In some of my SRS item examples, I have shown some reeeeeeeearry long sentences. Wait, hold on, Kung Fu Hustle is on, and its the final fight against the Axe Gang and the frog guy. BRB… …I love when he kicks the guys and it makes a bell-ringing...

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AJATT: The Book!

June 20, 2008
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…Not really. Not yet, anyway. But, see, the thing is, this site was written as a blog. Which was nice in terms of allowing it to be written incrementally, but sucky for reading once it got really big. It definitely needed some logical linearization (rather than the chronological kind that comes by default). So here it is: stuff for...

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Japanese Websites: Buying A Region-Free DVD Player

June 19, 2008
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Hey, so, lately I’ve been looking for a portable, region-free DVD player…Don’t know if I’ll end up actually choosing one or not. But anyway, I used these websites to do some (well, all) of the research. And they’re in Japanese. And it seemed like it would make great reading material. So here are the links: Original Google Search M1:...

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