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    • AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-03-06

    March 6, 2010
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    • Anything you can do is good enough. Anything is better than nothing. Everything has to start somewhere. #
    • お魚料理番組を見て「やっぱりＤＨＡだね」と突っ込みたくなる衝動を抑える、自己裁量屋の勝元 #
    • ドラゴン桜 (テレビドラマ) – Wikipedia bit.ly/cVaM1B #
    • 「人生でもっとも大切なことは利益を活用することではない。それならバカにだってできる。真に重要なことは、損失から利益を生み出すことだ。」
      レモンを手に入れたらレモネードをつくれ
      「道は開ける(D・カーネギー)」17章 #
    • Many of us don't value small actions, small choices, small games. Yet we wonder how big results come about. #
    • Karen Lee @ UCLA very kindly interviewed me a few weeks ago.
      Pacific Ties / Winter 2010 Issue bit.ly/asrh7n #
    • "『心が変われば、態度が変わる。
      態度が変われば、行動が変わる。
      行動が変われば、習慣が変わる。
      習慣が変われば、人格が変わる。
      人格が変われば、運命が変わる。
      運命が変われば、人生が変わる』
      " bit.ly/9JivqG #
    • "positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. " bit.ly/a44hWy #
    • Don't treat yourself like a bastard stepchild in your L2: you have the right to consume native materials right from day one. #
    • 『「おい！貴様、名前は？」「佢想知你嘅名」「我祇不過係一個中國人」「彼は、葉問（ﾖｳﾓﾝ）です！」』 #
    • So-called "immersion" is not a technique for learning languages. It is the reason. #
    • Don't over-control. Release your death grip on your L2. Give it slack to flow, grow and morph organically. #
    • "Work hard at the easy" bit.ly/bqR6D9 #
    • Wholesale, cynical rejection of certain people/ideas. Wholesale, cultlike acceptance of the same. These are just two sides of the same coin. #
    • Total, cultlike acceptance of certain ideas happens because total, cynical rejection neglects the middle ground of partial correctness. #
    • Don't compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to previous versions of yourself. #
    • Plug: Just 1 week left to get your hands on "My First Storybook" @ the 25% off pre-order price :D
      bit.ly/ajBBVQ #
    • "Chinese Post – Open letter to the Chinese language » ChinesePod" bit.ly/crRCme #
    • People who accept something totally are basically the same as those who reject it totally. Both sides are deathly afraid of being wrong. #
    • 従兄弟同士っていいね（＾＾） #
    • YouTube - Bonnie Pink　「Do you Crash?」
      bit.ly/dmsEMl #
    • When you're marching in the 軍隊 and you feel something 可笑しい、下痢！下痢！When you're 泳ぐing in the プール and you feel something クール、下痢！下痢！ #
    • It's kind of annoying when you find a great quote, but the person who said it is actually Shady S. McShadson, Sr. #
    • Try to keep your panties dry, lads. It's the full #Cantonese #movie #script for Chow's "God of Cookery"!
      周星馳-食神 (粵語劇本) bit.ly/9SBddQ #
    • Other options for 食神/God of Cookery 地獄嚟嘅使者 – Google 搜尋 bit.ly/aYvlqm #Cantonese #movie #script #
    • Graduate from "ghetto pride" — pride in things that are actually shite. Having a foreign accent in your L2 is not part of your "identity". #
    • "the only way to master [Chinese pronunciation] is by getting as much quality aural input as possible." bit.ly/dDhDHO #
    • YouTube – 前田敦子、水着はキッズ用！？ bit.ly/bCJroD #
    • App idea: a program that recursively breaks a kanji up into its components. So, for example, 哈→（口、合）→（∅、人・一・口） #
    • @humanelament氏、@nac_est氏! ちわーっすぅ！早速本題に突入。二人とも最早オイラより日本語が上手いぞ。正に「青は藍より出でて藍より青し」って奴だ。今度時間あったらサクセスストーリーってか、AJATT体験談、書いてくれない？発展途上の後輩達が超喜ぶから（＾＾） #
    • YouTube
      - 周杰倫-爺爺泡的茶KTV
      bit.ly/cGeAEq #
    • 10 beautiful Tokyo time-lapses | NihongoUp bit.ly/bDofY6 #
    • A Japanese personal development DVD-book in 関西弁!…I dunno, *I* think that's cool. 成功するにはどないしたらええねん？」 夢を絶対に実現させる方法 原田隆史 bit.ly/drON76 #
    • @JermaineJustice You're right. I love how 仲間由紀恵 sounds in English :D . Really the issue isn't the accent but the "value judgment". in reply to JermaineJustice #
    • @JermaineJustice Coz, like, Japanese kids get made fun of for having English that sounds "too good" – as if being incomprehensible were cool in reply to JermaineJustice #
    • As books like this go, the phrases in this book are *really* natural both ways :D bit.ly/cIh7Ty #
    • 「騙されたと思って」 – Google 検索 bit.ly/9vapyL #
    • Zhongwen.com: The website/book that helped complete my kanji legend (does that even make sense :D ?) bit.ly/c2Jqwd #
    • When it comes to learning languages, pick and choose ideas. You don't have to eat everything that's on the plate of ideas. #
    • YouTube
      - 【ビデオカメラ】SONY HDR-CX550V
      bit.ly/du5cmg #
    • No one out there has The Right And Correct Method for you. But lots of people have lots of cool little pieces you can use. #
    • @Birgens すればgoodのにね（＾＾） in reply to Birgens #
    • It's not so much that gaijin are overreacting, they're just so lonely and emotionally fragile (心細い) that everything feels bigger than it is? #
    • YouTube
      - Chandni Chowk to China Rap
      bit.ly/amAT6k #
    • YouTube – [KTV Tube] 周杰倫-霍元甲 bit.ly/bYMSqy #
    • ★ ノンストップチューブ 【 NonstopTUBE 】 – YouTube連続再生 – Automatic continuous playing of J-POP YouTube Video bit.ly/bTswYM #
    • "Unfortunately, “you should” is often interpreted as “you must”…because that’s how it was…in school." bit.ly/99dcXP #
    • [Thanks to NM for the link!] YouTube
      - 24: I am Jack Bauer (subtitled Japanese commercial)
      bit.ly/9TUppt #
    • Say yes to your L2. Say no to boring stuff in your L2. #
    • Deleting boring L2 stuff is like taking off tight shoes: you realize that it wasn't Life that you hated, it was just…those shoes #
    • @Chisa718 米国版のアマゾンなら有るらしい・・・で　す・・・が bit.ly/9itC1V in reply to Chisa718 #
    • YouTube
      - 周杰倫-四面楚歌
      bit.ly/bO3EYR #
    • F1とIndyの違い – Google 搜尋 bit.ly/a1GUFt The difference between F1 and Indy #Japanese #
    • AJATT comments should be up again now :D @claudiofreitas @FlipKi #
    • @sevarg I may be 完全に wrong but it just seems like a very normal word that got hyped up back in the day by non-日本語-speaking "Japan experts" in reply to sevarg #
    • @sevarg Kind of like when business authors in Japan put out books with 「クリティカルシンキング」 in the title like it's the BIGGEST DISCOVERY EVER!!! :D in reply to sevarg #
    • @sevarg If we're going to go down that road, I might as well write a book about 坂本龍馬 while I'm at it :) Maybe I'm just being too cynical :D in reply to sevarg #
    • Language skill is a plant. Water it. Feed it. It needs your attention no matter how big or small it is. #
    • Forget about the Japanese you "need" to do today. Just to the Japanese you can do right now. #Immersion #Contact #
    • "it’s so much easier to just have fun and learn Japanese as a byproduct." Matt-le-kat bit.ly/aL44QO #
    • SRS Precedence Rules act as a sort of filter for all existing and would-be cards. "Bad" cards get destroyed, "good" cards remain. #
    • YouTube
      - HI-D – Girlfriends feat. ZEEBRA
      bit.ly/9Y64PD #
    • Keith's Voice on Extreme Language Learning: watching TV really helps! bit.ly/9NHSJU #
    • "If you live in Japan, turn on the tv. Don’t turn it off. " bit.ly/bHCGhW #
    • 「練習・・・それ自身を目的に楽しんでやれるかが重要になってくる。」
      『達人のサイエンス』／ジョージ・レナード-人は感情の生き物だ！ bit.ly/5HVhfg #
    • RT @irishpolyglot Why learning a language is like learning a musical instrument bit.ly/bzxxkZ #
    • Language learning: Myths and facts | Antimoon.com bit.ly/d9FDl3 #
    • Input – getting English into your head | Antimoon.com bit.ly/cyOG94 #
    • Chinese | Antimoon.com bit.ly/aCfnf3 #
    • 「飲み込んで・・・ギザギザした錠剤・・・気持ちいいやろう？腹の中に・・・・煙が消えるのを待ってみろ～。」#impromptu #song #translation #
    • George Orwell – Good Bad Books – Essay bit.ly/b0q8Kn #
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