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The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

December 3, 2010
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The Wait That Kills: Before You Pwn Books, You Must First Own Books

We are all born illiterate. If you were to wait until you could read to start thumbing through Japanese books, you’d die waiting. If you were to wait until you could  read to start owning Japanese books, you’d die waiting. False: can’t read Japanese ∴ own no Japanese books. True: own no Japanese books ∴ can’t read Japanese. See these...

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Mandarin Mini-Transcript: Men In Black / I Make This Look Good

October 24, 2010
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Mandarin Mini-Transcript: Men In Black / I Make This Look Good

This line is pretty famous, and needs little background explanation. It’s from the part in Men In Black where J (Will Smith) says to K (Tommy Lee Jones): “You know the difference between you and me? I make this look good.” 知道你和我之間的區別嗎?我穿著更帥! Audio: 我穿著更帥

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Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / That Ruffian

July 27, 2010
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Cantonese Mini-Transcript: Star Wars / Clone Wars / That Ruffian

“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! 白卜庭議長: 要派Jedi{絕地}去救Jabba{賈霸}個仔 baak buk ting yi jeung: yiu paai Jedi {jyut dei} heui gau...

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お巫山戯、日本語で: K♥a♥w♥a♥i♥i!!!

May 31, 2010
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Note from Dear Leader Khatzumoto: The following post is by Momoko, and not me. Momoko likes to use language that we don’t approve of here at AJATT. It’s like she’s doing that teenage rebellion thing, but like 15 years too late…way to be on time, champ. Um…I actually tried bowdlerizing her text, but then…yeah, anyway… This is the fourth...

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But I Don’t Have Time For Immersion!: How To Immerse Even When Your Time Is Controlled By Others

October 22, 2009
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The other day, a handsome young AJATTeer (and South Park fan) named MGV sent me this handsome email: On your site, which is awesome, you mention that you should spend 18-24 hours a day doing something/anything in Japanese. I’m in high school, grade 10. I have school Monday-Friday. I worked it out on a piece of paper, and the...

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Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand

February 1, 2009
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Why You Should Keep Listening Even If You Don’t Understand

Like I’ve said before…the set of tools/methods described on this site…I don’t know why it all works; looking at and thinking about how people learn their native language, it just all seemed obvious to me. In other words, I knew what I needed to do to achieve fluency…but not much more. One of the more apparently “controversial” pieces of...

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