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Archive for December, 2009

The Fork, The Choice and You

December 30, 2009
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What deserves your closest attention is neither your ultimate goal, nor your track record, nor your overall plan, but your next choice. What are you going to do next? Ultimate goals are heavy; they weigh on the soul. They’re useful and everything, but you can’t have them in your head all the time because the difference between that ultimate...

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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2009-12-26

December 26, 2009
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“Delete bad SRS cards or they will deplete you”. Momoko # Watching a Korean drama in Cantonese…Bobby Lee wasn’t kidding. It’s been 10 minutes and three well-chiseled men have cried already. # I am feeling this rather intense desire to end my sentences in “innit?”. 可笑しいｲﾆｯ # An SRS deck is a fluid, living system. It is natural that...

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[Movie Transcript] Gladiator Speech — Maximus Reveals Himself…in Japanese, Of Course

December 25, 2009
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Hey. It’s chilly outside. It’s toasty inside. I’ve got this…Honeywell space heater action going here. Movies get watched, okay? Today’s transcript is from Gladiator. One of my favorite movies. I didn’t get round to seeing it until about 2005. Being a man of extensive huevos, I personally did not cry at the end, but, my…friend did. Anywhere, here’s the...

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Surely One Could Learn Multiple Languages At Once?

December 20, 2009
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I got this really cool comment in response to this article where I urged people to calm down and focus on one language at a time: Said Jimbo: Surely, if a child can be raised natively in three languages, it would be just as possible and in fact easier as an adult to do the same thing? Surely one...

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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2009-12-19

December 19, 2009
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Be a mang. Play hard. But play fair. Grow some ovaries. If you have a problem, say it to Japanese people’s face. Politely. In Japanese. # “It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” Confucius (?) bit.ly/5WeS9K I used to love collecting these # Learn your Japanese animal sounds in a rap...

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[Movie Transcript] Crimson Tide Captain’s Speech in Japanese

December 19, 2009
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The mid-1990s movie speech nostalgia party continues. Today the objet of our adulation is that space-themed romantic comedy romp, Crimson Tide, starring Denzel Washington and Aragorn. Gene Hackman’s Captain Ramsey gives that speech early on in the film before they board the U-boat. It’s one of my favorites, so I went ahead and transcribed it. Don’t ever say I...

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