Comments on: Comfort Zone, Growth Zone, Panic Zone and Situational Goals: Life Is Easier Than You Think

By: Probability Over Certainty, Or: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Immersion, I Learned from the Miller-Rabin Primality Test | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Mon, 16 Aug 2010 01:46:00 +0000

[...] kinda conical way). That’s the basic idea. That’s AJATT immersion. It’s also what the situational goals thing is [...]

By: Bucolic Wisdom, Or Stop Slagging Seeds, Silly City Slickers! | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:02:03 +0000

[...] Don’t work to reach goals, work to create conditions and environments. Don’t work to achieve something. Let the environment do the work for you. Don’t change yourself. Just change your surroundings. Your surroundings will then change you — always. Share and Enjoy: [...]

By: AFATT – All French All The Time « Aspirante poliglotta

AFATT – All French All The Time « Aspirante poliglotta — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 16:01:58 +0000

[...] Citando Khatzumoto: [...]

By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3.5: Timeboxing Turns Work Into Play | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Mon, 05 Jul 2010 08:00:18 +0000

[...] when someone else is there to coerce us, and it fails as soon as that person disappears. This is why so many former professional athletes are obese…it’s not age: it’s dependence on coercion. We will win consistently when we use [...]

By: Timeboxing Trilogy, Part 3: Dual Timeboxing | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 16:17:14 +0000

[...] when someone else is there to apply force, and it fails as soon as that person disappears. This is why so many former professional athletes are obese…it’s not age: it’s dependence on force. We will win consistently when we use our [...]

By: AJATT Plus » 子供を過大評価するな

AJATT Plus » 子供を過大評価するな — Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:04:52 +0000

[...] ★元ネタ：Cute Girls, Mathematics, Language ★LARDに就いて [...]

By: Nucular Weapons | All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency.

Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:49:58 +0000

[...] walk here, a 30-minute wait in line there. They’ll seem too small; they’ll seem too easy. Good. Take them. Let them be easy. Let life be [...]

By: Joanna

Joanna — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 01:08:20 +0000

Great piece. On a whim I decided to open up the word processor because even though I love writing, I find it hard to get started. Next thing I know, I’ve pulled 900 words out of my rear…

I’ll soon be applying this to my Japanese studies.

By: 小强

小强 — Wed, 26 May 2010 03:27:52 +0000

@Dempf
I like all of the bands you listen to as well! Here are some more good ones:
许巍 (vocals and guitar)
果味vc (awesome britpop/rock band)
清醒 or Sober
反光镜 (really good punk rock band)
谢天笑
便利商店
汪峰
刺猬乐队 (pretty indie)

Hope you like some of these guys!

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Lazy Kanji Cards: A New (?) SRS Card Format

Wed, 17 Mar 2010 17:41:52 +0000

[...] say these ASM-sounding things a lot, but there’s just one problem: I’m pathologically lazy. Looking [...]

By: Dillon

Dillon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:30:02 +0000

oh, and another question… what does one do with their old English stuff?? where do I put my English books, music, movies, shows, etc? and where would I be able to get all that in my new language (preferably for free, I know HOW to get it, but WHERE can I get it?)

By: Dillon

Dillon — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 22:50:49 +0000

The trick now is to find good resources for immersion… GOD is it ever hard to find the music I like in other languages… I want to learn Japanese, but I think I will go for French first since it will be easier to get stuff that way as I live in Canada, and I AM kinda interested in it… does anyone have any good links for music downloads for Progressive Metal with FRENCH lyrics??? Adagio, for example, is a great French band, but all their lyrics are in English…

By: Dempf

Dempf — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 01:25:35 +0000

@Erick:

Here’s some of the Chinese music I listen to on my iPod:

二手玫瑰
五月天 (i like their rock songs although there’s only a few of them)
小太陽 (Taiwanese indie band)
Freckles (Another Taiwanese indie band)
崔健 (The father of Chinese rock)
沙子
聲音碎片
蘇打綠 (very eccentric)
Tizzy Bac
P.K. 14
Spring and Autumn
新裤子
Coco Zhao (jazz)
929
1976 (a favorite)
幸福大街
Carsick Cars (popular in the Chinese indie scene)

I listen to this instead of English music now. I still have quite a limited selection though, so if anyone has more interesting Chinese artists, please let me know!

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Language Is A Martial Art

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:31:47 +0000

[...] You don’t have to control all the variables in order to achieve control of the entire situatio…Like a row of dominoes, you only have to topple one, to topple them all. All you have to do is put your body into Japanese — if you just keep your body there, Japanese will then put itself into your mind. I am repeating, restating and reiterating for a reason. [...]

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix It: Part 1

Thu, 29 Oct 2009 10:00:39 +0000

[...] not get too worked up. The deeper problem is that to force yourself to read everything is to force yourself out of your growth/true-comfort zone and into either your boredom zone or your panic … (both of which are places where you are just going to…wait for the pun…”zone [...]

By: アメド

アメド — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 22:53:25 +0000

@Renee

yea entering them can be a bother but for me some days i can 50-100 daily easily while others just take more. I have school so that does take it’s toll but not impossible. When i’m trying to search stuff in dictionaries and add them to Anki it takes a while and my reviews sometimes are alot so all depends on these factors as well. Yea if you took sentences from books it’ll take a very long time. So for me i try to take it from music lyriscs online,manga,anime,books but online lol. I use that smart.fm site for songs and monolingual dictionaries for sentences that contain more kanji in them. Overall i was trying to do 100 daily and more if possible but there only so much you can do daily lol 50 i do normally so that’s what i aim for nowadays.

By: Renee

Renee — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:00:22 +0000

To answer someone’s question up there about how many sentences I do a day: well I feel a bit shy because I can’t do nearly as many as you! I say that I input about 15-20 sentences a day. It seems to take me some time to type and format it for input into Anki (esp if I took the sentence from a book). I’m curious how long everyone spends inputting sentences? Or looking up definitions etc etc. I wonder if I’m spending too much time when I shouldn’t have too haha.

By: Amelia

Amelia — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:53:30 +0000

Now BRANDON’s doing it. Awesome site, dude. I was getting sick of all my Carsick Cars…

By: Amelia

Amelia — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:52:13 +0000

Holy cow! Khaz is some kind of crazy genius who solves all my life problems. AGAIN.

How the heck do you keep doing this? You’re starting to be like my own personal Secret schtick. I have a stupid life problem for weeks and weeks, and then I open this blog and BAM! Solution to the EXACT problem I was having.

Sorry for all the caps. Just…wow.

By: Emagale

Emagale — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:51:38 +0000

Great post–I’d like to add that I think starting is overlooked in importance to finishing. I use this approach for films and novels in my second language (Arabic). Thinking about watching a whole film/reading a whole novel seems intimidating. But watching the first ten minutes/reading the first ten pages–not so bad . . . and by that time I’m into it and finish the whole thing anyway, as long as it’s good It’s also the start that’s harder linguistically anyway–once you know the characters and setting, the story becomes much easier to follow.