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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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    How Do I Learn 500 Languages At Once?!

    October 14, 2009
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    How Do I Learn 500 Languages At Once?!

    This is the first post of a multi-part series on Language and Society (yes, I was deliberately looking for the dryest, most lifeless-sounding topic title ever ). The largest problem that would-be language learners have faced, especially with Asian languages (though not exclusively so) has been simple lack of confidence. A lot of the writing you’ve seen on this...

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    When Will I Get Funny?

    October 6, 2009
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    And there came upon the email of Khatzumoto a letter long of length, correct of spelling and accurate of punctuation. And it was good. The emailer’s pseudonym was, is and ever shall be…Farley. Khatzumoto, hi! First, I want to start out by saying how much I have enjoyed the site and how helpful it has been to me. I’m...

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    The “Flat” Approach To Languages With Tons of Inflection

    September 29, 2009
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    Another day, another kid named J.R. (different from the last!), all up in my email: Hey Khatz, Your method when applied to languages like Chinese and Japanese makes perfect sense but I am trying to learn Korean and Finnish. My problem is with Finnish. A Finnish word can have up to 14 cases so do I need to make...

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    About SRS/Sentence Writing Practice

    September 25, 2009
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    A funny thing happened on the way to my email: Hey Khatz, I’m currently using my SRS to practice sentences, but I’m having trouble keeping up with the workload. In your recommendations you say you should be able to write (copy out) each sentence. Do you recommend copying out the sentence every time it shows up in your SRS?...

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    All In Moderation

    September 13, 2009
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    Spend some time around the old Internets, and you might start to hear a thing or two about how AJATT is “extreme”, Khatzumoto is “insane”, and “I want to learn Japanese but I don’t have time for that AJATT stuff; who does that guy think he is?! I have a right to watch reruns of Dawson’s Creek“. Spend some...

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