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    Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / You Heard The General!

    September 9, 2010
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    Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / You Heard The General!

    “Cantonese is a difficult language to learn — not because of its sounds or syntax, but because it’s hard to find good learning resources” – Eldon Well, let’s remedy that one mini-transcript at a time, as has been the custom established by Edwin and CanteHK! Situation: Anakin finishes briefing/debriefing his clone soldiers and tells them to get to it....

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    Book Review / The Talent Code | Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.

    September 6, 2010
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    Book Review / The Talent Code |  Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.

    The books is called The Talent Code, the reviewer is called Khatzumoto and the innocent bystander in all this is you! Let the opinionating begin… Title/Author/Info The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How.  Author: Daniel Coyle Pros Cons Content Nailing more holes in the coffin of talentism and biological determininsm. That kind of thing...

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    AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-09-05

    September 5, 2010
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    You don't "learn" a language. You get *used to* it. You become familiar with it. You become…"family". # If you want to get used to/become "family"ar with a language, you have to, like family, let it into your private life. # Languages that are not part of the home/private life tend to not get learned, regardless of school/lesson quality....

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    Language Is Friendship and Familiarity

    September 3, 2010
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    A language is a person. Of course, it’s not a real person. You can’t see or touch Japanese. But she exists. She exists just like Harry Potter exists. You don’t learn a language, you get used to it. When someone is used to something, what do we call them? We call them an “expert”, we say they’re “good at”...

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    URL Shuffler

    September 2, 2010
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    What is the URL Shuffler? It’s a better alternative to bookmarks. Instead of storing those cool L2 sites you come across (e.g. via recommendations on the AJATT Twitter feed) in your bookmarks folder, where they will simply be forgotten, store them in the URL shuffler The URL shuffler will pick a random page for you each time you click the “shuffle!”/”shuff!”...

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    Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / I Surrender!

    September 1, 2010
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    Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / I Surrender!

    “Cantonese is a difficult language to learn — not because of its sounds or syntax, but because it’s hard to find good learning resources” – Eldon Well, let’s remedy that one mini-transcript at a time, as has been the custom established by Edwin and CanteHK! Situation: Obi-Wan “surrenders” to the Clone Army as part of a ploy to buy...

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