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Archive for July, 2008

Success Story: More in a few months of AJATT than in 4 years of school French

July 27, 2008
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For your happy perusal, here’s a success story from a reader who goes by her Chinese name, Plum Ocean –  I mean, 李洋. Here are her words, digitally remastered in super ultra high definition wide screen Dolby 10.2 digital surround text: Dear Khatzumoto, I really want to thank you for writing your blog! I have found so...

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Kanji File

July 19, 2008
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Update (2011/05/31): This file has been taken down at the polite request of the copyright holder. But fear not! You can use the data over at Reviewing the Kanji bit.ly/cE0wky, since those do comply with the RTK publisher’s stipulations . I will also be uploading a kosher file at some unspecified later date. A lot of people seem to need...

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How To Really Make the Transition to Monolingual Dictionaries

July 16, 2008
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I know I’ve written on this topic before. FORGET WHAT I SAID. That explanation sucked; it was far too complicated. Just do this. This is all you need to do to smoothly make the transition to monolingual dictionaries. Are you ready? OK. Here it comes: Look up definitions of words you already know. You heard me. LOOK UP WORDS...

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How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable Games

July 13, 2008
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Don’t Believe the Hype A lot of people say a lot of nice things about me on this site. I’ve been called “insane” (I consider this a compliment), strong-willed, full of “willpower”, “obsessed”, determined, “Naruto-like”, even a “genius”. Sometimes it goes to my head and I start to believe that I might actually be a special person. But I...

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KhatzuMemo Update: Quicker, Leaner

July 11, 2008
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So, over at LearnJapaneseToday, KhatzuMemo, the world’s favorite SRS, won the dubious honor of a less-than-stellar review. The shame! Frankly, though, what they said was true. Load times were slow and the ad was annoying…I mean, there really shouldn’t be an ad there until you’re getting more value from it. So, I’ve made some quick updates to KhatzuMemo, namely:...

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Japanese Websites: Street Signs

July 10, 2008
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Hey, so, like, yeah. I’ve been doing lots of stuff with images lately. And then I figured, hey — you might want to do that, too. So here are some links to Japanese websites…full of images (and text.) This site is a collection of pictures of building and street signs (plus Google search results for similar sites). Street signs...

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