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Archive for September, 2009

My First Sentence Pack Is Here! Huzzah!

September 30, 2009
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My First Sentence Pack Is Here! Huzzah!

Verily! It is here! “My First Sentence Pack”. A set of over 500 short, fun, easy, useful example sentences to get you started with the so-called “AJATT Method” of learning Japanese. Joy! But, you know what? Behind all this humor, the off-color jokes, the eye-catching banners, the inflammatory comments about already-victimized ethnic groups, and the...

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The “Flat” Approach To Languages With Tons of Inflection

September 29, 2009
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Another day, another kid named J.R. (different from the last!), all up in my email: Hey Khatz, Your method when applied to languages like Chinese and Japanese makes perfect sense but I am trying to learn Korean and Finnish. My problem is with Finnish. A Finnish word can have up to 14 cases so do I need to make...

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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2009-09-26

September 26, 2009
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「最近、「雰囲気」を「ふいんき」と読む人がとても増えており、テレビのアナウンサーも「ふいんき」を使用する人がいます。」 bit.ly/IujXB # Surusu: service down temporarily. Will be back up within 24 hours. # Surusu: service restored. # Surusu: backup in progress # “a child can imitate the rhythm and musical contours of the language long before he can say the words” bit.ly/kME0a # MDさん斯く語りき「God exists, and he wants me to be able to listen to the Beatles...

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About SRS/Sentence Writing Practice

September 25, 2009
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A funny thing happened on the way to my email: Hey Khatz, I’m currently using my SRS to practice sentences, but I’m having trouble keeping up with the workload. In your recommendations you say you should be able to write (copy out) each sentence. Do you recommend copying out the sentence every time it shows up in your SRS?...

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Surusu: Update and Announcement, Or “When Backups Back Up”

September 21, 2009
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Thank you for using Surusu. As you may be aware, Surusu has up until now had periodic 15~20-minute service interruptions while backups are taken. Wanting to eliminate the need to interrupt service in order to take a backup, today I started working with a “live backup” solution. Unfortunately and quite ironically, this “live backup” solution led to the loss...

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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2009-09-19

September 19, 2009
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Japanese kids never run away, never give up, never skip a day of Japanese. Even if they wanted to, their environment won’t let them. # “Another reason for Jamaican s’ success: their attitude” bit.ly/ej6mJ # Poor experiment-design strikes again. It turns out that age may not be a deciding issue at all with memory. bit.ly/jKn54 # “A simple...

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