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January 28, 2012
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“All failure comes from trying too hard.” / NAKATANI Akihiro 1 is bigger than 0. Obvious, I know. Common sense, I know. But common sense isn’t common. Common sense is the least common of the senses, as other people have pointed out. 1 is bigger than 0. How often we forget this simple fact. You know how it is....

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After the Binge Must Come the Purge

January 14, 2012
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After the Binge Must Come the Purge

Rest follows every race. Purge follows every binge. Binge on kanji now, and you might end up having to take a break from them for the rest of your life. And all for what? For a 0 duecount on Anki? Is that what your life has come to? Suffering in order to game some stats? What gets measured gets...

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Boredom Kills

June 7, 2011
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And so it came to pass than on June 7, 2011 at 13:45 Japan Standard Time, angel13 said: I am still in kanji (only about 150 or so in) and I am finding it extremely boring. I just can’t seem to get myself motivated to do it and I don’t want to delete kanji I haven’t memorized yet. There...

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Book Pimpin’: The Ultimate Word List – Japanese: 2935 Most Commonly used Kanji

December 18, 2010
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This is a guest post from Dr. Aron Levin, author of The Ultimate Word List – Japanese: 2935 Most Commonly used Kanji (with English translation) Dear People-who-read-AJATT, Khatzumoto has allowed me the distinguished honor of writing a guest post. The reason for this post is to PIMP my new book. It’s called “The Ultimate Word List – Japanese: 2935...

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The Lazy Kanji Kendo Mod

December 15, 2010
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This is a gracious guest post by E Dub Kendo. In it, he introduces a sweet mod he made to lazy kanji cards to increase their effectiveness. Effectiveness and preference can and does vary by person. Nevertheless, I think this mod is a valuable improvement that definitely deserves to be part of AJATT “canon” . Though I have no...

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Multiple Kanji Dictionary Lookup Bookmarklet

November 27, 2010
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Hey there, you Lazy Kanji aficionados! Here is a little bookmarklet that looks up multiple kanji dictionaries (Wiktionary, MDBG, Richard Sears’ Chinese Etymology, CantoDict and Goo) for you with a single click: Multiple Kanji Lookup Bookmarklet Source code: javascript:(function(){var w=window,d=w.document,s="";;if(d.selection){s=d.selection.createRange().text}else if(d.getSelection){s=d.getSelection()}else if(w.getSelection){s=window.getSelection()}window.open('http://www.surusu.com/addqaui.php?front='+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank");window.open("http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=worddict&wdrst=1&wdqb="+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank");window.open("http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/"+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank");window.open("http://www.chineseetymology.org/CharacterASP/CharacterEtymology.aspx?characterInput="+encodeURIComponent(s)+"&submitButton1=Etymology","_blank");window.open("http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/dictionary/search/?searchtype=3&text="+encodeURIComponent(s),"_blank");window.open("http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/je/"+encodeURIComponent(s)+"/m0u/","_blank");window.open("http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/"+encodeURIComponent(s)+"/m0u/","_blank");window.open("http://dictionary.goo.ne.jp/srch/all/"+encodeURIComponent(s)+"/m1u/","_blank");})()

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