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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-08-28
- @sevarg KanjiClinic and Chris Houser were big, I think. Dr (Mary Sisk) Noguchi's literacy…those were big… in reply to sevarg #
- @sevarg Also, I Dr. Noguchi actually forwarded an email to Heisig (呼び捨て) for me. I asked him "are you sure this'll work for Chinese, mate?" in reply to sevarg #
- @sevarg Anyway. I actually tried and failed to learn kanji many times. 4~5 times. SRS, by allowing me a margin of error, made it all work. in reply to sevarg #
- Fun fact: The first time I saw sentence cards [on AntiMoon], I thought they were too easy to be effective ('TF? all I do is read it out?) #
- I was initially skeptical of pretty much every language acquisition technique that I now use and/or promote. #
- Don't believe in methods. There's nothing to believe. Try and see. Run a little side experiment and see the results. #
- エドワード・サイード – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/aMemWT #
- YouTube – Chloe & Ashley February 2009. Cantonese speaking 2 year old twins http://bit.ly/bEjVcd #
- 漢文を復活させよう "漢文が消えていくなんて論外っすねえ。
そもそも「当用漢字」(愚民化政策としか思えない)を廃止して、多様な漢字の
使用が可能な状態に回帰して欲しいですよね。 " http://bit.ly/bsW6Gc # - YouTube – HQ [MV] 少女時代 (SNSD) Run Devil Run 日本語訳 [Japanese Sub] http://bit.ly/bA6VSh #
- 東西教会の分裂 – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/bQZIdg #
- Nujabes – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/aFSZTO #
- Joe In Japan » Sentence Mining Explained http://bit.ly/cMY889 #
- YouTube – 隠し砦の三悪人 THE LAST PRINCESS予告編 http://bit.ly/cAdRLX #
- ディオン・サンダース – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/9Y6ZXa #
- 映画／ナタリー・ポートマンがダークサイドに？ 主演作がヴェネチアでオープニング上映決定 – cinemacafe.net http://bit.ly/d5JFev #
- Perhaps start talking about how long you've been learning your native language in *minutes*. Could be a good reference habit #
- "Creating New Chinese Characters
How do new Chinese characters come to be created?" http://bit.ly/ae1ypq # - Don't do what you can't. Do what you can. Can you push "play" on an iPad? You do have opposable thumbs, right? #immersion #
- If no one's telling you you're overdoing it, then you're not doing enough yet.
Use this one with care, haha. #immersion # - If people tell you you're doing too much Japanese, you're probably doing the right amount. #immersion #
- Book Review: Talent Is Overrated | A Great Book About Becoming Great | AJATT http://bit.ly/ajslAF #
- "SRS is by far the most effective vocabulary learning method I’ve ever seen." http://bit.ly/aCngvz #
- バートランド・ラッセル – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/9yByNA | Check out the external links! #
- Worked on a(n emotionally) difficult project today using #incremental #timeboxing (start @ 60 seconds, +10 seconds/round) #
- Myth #1 "The best way to learn a foreign language is to go to a foreign country" | Antimoon.com
http://bit.ly/d8LdM5 # - Myth #5 "You are a foreigner, therefore you will always have a foreign accent" | Antimoon.com http://bit.ly/c48kVI #
- "To speak English fluently1, you need a lot of input. I needed about 1,000,000 sentences over 3 years " http://bit.ly/9Htrkj #
- Chinese | Antimoon.com http://bit.ly/aCfnf3 #
- "FREE JAPANESE AUDIOBOOKS W/ TRANSCRIPTS" http://bit.ly/czkd7w #
- 財団法人 目黒寄生虫館 http://bit.ly/capNdd #
- Welcome to urigul.net http://bit.ly/cg73a3 #
- 中国語ジャーナル 2010年9月号｜書籍・雑誌｜アルク・オンラインショップ http://bit.ly/9qvSZ3 #
- サルにお金を持たせると人間と同じく非合理的な判断を下す – スラッシュドット・ジャパン http://bit.ly/b8HhsO #
- "I’ve found what works well for me is putting headphones underneath my pillow" http://bit.ly/bHMLco #immersion #sleep #
- 地デジＴＶ１～７月出荷、１０００万台超え : BCNニュース : ニュース : ネット＆デジタル : YOMIURI ONLINE（読売新聞） http://bit.ly/aW0DyF #
- "話題のiPadの対抗馬といえるASUSの製品を手に取った、サイズはiPadとほぼ同じだが、後発ゆえの工夫が随所にみられる。" http://bit.ly/a67QD9 #
- If someone makes fun of you, tells you to quit, and you keep going anyway, you win. Don't justify. Drive #socialresistance #
- You win by moving. You don't win by being agreed with. You can sit around agreeing all day and still not get anywhere. #
- So you win people over to your side. And then what? You still need to actually do stuff. Let people disagree. 'Adds drama #
- Sebamed愛上PH3.8 http://bit.ly/aJTuSw | Feminine intimate wash…
# - Stop shoulding on yourself. Be real. Don't do what you should do. Do what you actually can and want to do #immersion #plans #
- You're going to die. Your body will rot; no one will remember you. So you might as well have fun while you're here. #immersion #
- ウィークリーワールドニュース・ジャパン | weeklyworldnews japan http://bit.ly/97MJRP | Thanks to MD for this gem of trash! #
- ハリウッド・セレブ・ニュース http://bit.ly/cRa0aZ | more trash #
- "縦書きも横書きもOK。漢字とかなとカナ、アルファベットまで組み込んで文章が綴れる。難しい言葉に振り仮名をつけられるし、様々な敬語表現や味わい深い方言もある。言葉遊びは自由自在―日本語には全てがある" http://amzn.to/cxQWAU #
- Sudden late-night impulse: Star Trek Voyager in Japanese! #
- 揚聲器 – 維基百科，自由的百科全書 http://bit.ly/cLAcPT #
- @BoccKob Haha…I don't quite remember…I'll have to check out that episode in reply to BoccKob #
- 八ヶ岳清里大泉高原 天文台で天体観測 ペンション スター・パーティ http://bit.ly/cyQyN0 #
- 金石堂網路書店 – 小王子 http://bit.ly/aLDNKx #
- I find that it's important to own lots of L2 books long before you're "ready" for them. There's a sort of "gravitational pull". #
- It's almost like…you don't learn to read and THEN get books, you get books and thereby learn to read. #
- The (L2) books in the home thing seems to provide important physical/mental cues for literacy… #
- @ta132 Wow! May I see some of your decks & cards? in reply to ta132 #
- @UnclePolyGlot 小父さん！パソコン用の良き中日日中辞書ソフト、ご存知ですかね。今まではChineseWriterを使ってたんですが、いちいち故障しやがるので、やっぱり取り替えたいと思います。 #
- 「「出る杭」は打たれもするが、出すぎてしまえば、まわりもあきらめる。」 http://amzn.to/cuyXkI #
- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZDi9ePTg4M&sns=tw #
- A language is a musical instrument. The notes are the writing system. The keys are your lips, tongue and teeth? #
- "Home library size has a very substantial effect on educational attainment" http://bit.ly/95X8PG #
- Remember, you don't have a foreign language problem, you have a(n adult) literacy problem. #
- You've done this language thing before; you're already the dog's bollocks at 1 language. USE that. Reflect on it. Repeat it. #
- “Don’t follow your mentors, follow your mentors’ mentors" | So true. http://nyti.ms/a06rsb #
- Don't look for logical reasons to learn a language. Learn it, and the logical/economic reasons will present themselves. #
- Too many people look for opportunities to justify learning a language, not realizing that it is the knowledge that creates the opportunities #
- Don't look too hard for the worth beforehand. Once you know the language, it will make itself worthwhile. #
- In learning L2, look for the FUN right now, but don't look for good reasons. Good reasons can be made up later. Fun has to be now #
- 迷思五：「你是外國人，因此一直會有外國口音。」 | Antimoon.com "這句話經常用來打消學外語者認真地學發音的念頭。" http://bit.ly/b1jYSQ #
- フリーダイビング – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/996SgM #
- No language learner should get credit for "intelligence". Given decent conditions, language acquisition is *inevitable*. #
- No language learner should get credit for "intelligence". All you're seeing is habit crystallized. "Engineered inevitability". #
- Adult language acquisition is nothing but engineered inevitability. Language learners are just good "situation designers". #
- すべてを記憶する | Evernote Corporation http://bit.ly/ceyO9J #
- "「童の時は語ることも童の如く、思うことも童の如く、論ずることも童の如くなりしが、人と成りしは童のことを捨てたり」" http://bit.ly/9Z1szY #
- @danielpwright Thanks a lot for pointing that out. It's fixed now. in reply to danielpwright #
- Humans learn language naturally. But nature requires precursors in order to work its magic. Your job is to get these ingredients. #
- People do not fail to learn languages, they fail to provide the precursors for the language to learn itself. #
- You don't boil eggs. Eggs boil themselves. Nature boils eggs. You provide water, heat and a vessel. #precursors #
- AJATT = If you really prepare +/- the same precursors/ingredients as a Japanese child, you will get the same dish. #
- There's this mistaken idea that you have to "do" everything. You don't do much. It's just arson. Start fire. Tend. #immersion #
- @Birgens The precursors only have to be +/- the same. It's like electric vs. gas vs. wood vs. IH cooking. in reply to Birgens #
- @Birgens You don't. You simulate. TV = mother. iPod = father. Books = grandparents. Mothers mostly talk *at* their kids anyhow. in reply to Birgens #
- AJATT/input is a lot like induction heating. Native media "induces" language proficiency inside you. http://bit.ly/99gZCN #
- 「他人と比較して、他人が自分より優れていたとしても、それは恥ではない。しかし、去年の自分より今年の自分が優れていないのは恥だ。」ジョン＝ラボック #
- @Birgens Those things are good to have. If we don't have them, we do without. Their absence just makes the game more interesting. in reply to Birgens #
- Your first language is software. All languages are software. None come hard-coded. Jailbreak yourself and add new apps #
- A computer owner who believes her computer can't do X and therefore never tries, is rarely proved wrong. A brain owner who… #
- @Birgens Our simulation needn't be perfect. Just good enough. Close enough. Films make us laugh, cry, talk, cringe… in reply to Birgens #
- @Birgens Also, we can "bootstrap" ourselves in by initially using another, already-learned language. Kids can't bootstrap. in reply to Birgens #
- Our L1s are perhaps as valuable to us in the early stages as they are damaging if we hang onto them too long. #gomonolingual #
- The secret to learning a language: know more today than you did yesterday. As close to guaranteed success as you can get. #
- If you live in the country of your L2 and wanna learn, do this: (1) Turn on the TV at 9am (2) Leave it on for 6~24 months. #
- If you live in the country of your L2: (1) Turn on the TV (2) Leave it on (3) Get premium cable/satellite. #
- Premium cable in your L2 will do more for your language skills than any combo of classes and friends. #immersion #
- Classes confuse. Friends flake out. Premium cable prevails. #immersion #
- I swear, it's almost as if the TV was invented to teach people language against their will . #immersion #
- YouTube – 愛∞無限第2集搶先看 http://bit.ly/bOnKxF #
- Your job isn't to learn a language, it's to not get in the way. Remove the obstacles. Don't dam up the river. Let nature work. #
- Many gaijin in Japan fail to learn Japanese only b/c they get in the way. They actively reject every possible Japanese thing. #
- I was at a gaijin friend's house and turned on J-news. She FREAKED. OUT. If you never touch ice don't act surprised that you can't skate. #
- OK, so it's "impossible" to learn a language? Good. Turn on Japanese TV anyway. Get out of the way. Get out of your way. #
- @don_rivers Yeah, those Mexican telenovelas (:D)… in reply to don_rivers #
- Start somewhere. Try here. Try now. #immersion #
- 無人航空機 – Wikipedia http://bit.ly/aA0MkF #
- 緊急用医療ホログラム – Memory Alpha – スタートレックWiki日本語版 http://bit.ly/dfQ5uA #
- @Birgens You're right. People definitely benefit from having someone to answer questions. in reply to Birgens #
- 未來的數學家們從這里起步 – 視頻 – 優酷視頻 – 在線觀看 http://bit.ly/9HhbKI #
- 未來的數學家 – 視頻 – 優酷視頻 – 在線觀看 http://bit.ly/ddLgiT #
- 數學可以快樂學習 不用惡補傷神
http://bit.ly/cdSHM8 # - 電子辭典–國語推行委員會 National Languages Committee http://bit.ly/91mw8y #
- Tiger stripes: "彪" http://bit.ly/alrzuu | My new favorite char #
- Bet on your ability to learn Japanese. Then rig the bet in your favor. #probabilityovercertainty #selffulfillingprophecy #
- "個故事呢…只想說…使唔使咁多臥底呀？成個organization都係臥底呢既？" http://bit.ly/9KSDzg | lAUGHING gOR之熟口熟面 (Life as a 2 hit 6) #
- Funny story: whenever I call banks and announce my foreign name, the operator goes: "can we speak to Khatz directly, please?" #
- 漢字の写真字典 Photo dictionary of rare Chinese characters http://bit.ly/9Xb9si #
- "究竟有無人數曾志偉、吳鎮宇、黃秋生自《古惑仔》那個年代開始合演過幾多次呢啲江湖片呀？" http://bit.ly/9KSDzg #
- 演技派俳優？実力派女優？ – BIGLOBEなんでも相談室 http://bit.ly/d9beMw #
- 陳奕迅 – 維基百科，自由嘅百科全書 "陳奕迅（1974年7月27號—）係香港實力派歌手同埋演員" http://bit.ly/9yZJKG #
- 香港廉政公署 http://bit.ly/9Uh1ct #
- 金錢帝國 – 維基百科，自由的百科全書 http://bit.ly/crC4oa #
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