http://komachi.yomiuri.co.jp/

It’s like an agony aunt site. People write posts about problems they’re having in their life and others respond with advice. It’s great as a source of Japanese as it’s used in normal daily life

Love the site, and can’t thank you enough for all your awesome insight. It’s really changed my life and helped get my Japanese to a whole new level.

Anyways, I’ve moved my blog from wordpress to blogger, and wanted to let you know that some of the links have changed.

“Limiting beliefs” link is now found at http://emergencynampa.blogspot.com/2008/09/i-not-asian-limiting-beliefs-about_13.html
“positive beliefs” link is now found at http://emergencynampa.blogspot.com/2008/09/destiny-beliefs-that-will-help-you_17.html
“learning kanji” link is now found at http://emergencynampa.blogspot.com/2008/09/master-japanese-writing-system-in-2_28.html

When you get a chance, please change your links so there’s no dead ones and keep up the good work!

Best,
Emergency

http://ansaikuropedia.org/wiki/カタカナ

I have a question for you: Do you think it’s bad to learn another foreign language at the same time as Japanese? (Or just learning multiple foreign languages simultaneously in general.)

I’ve also taken up learning Korean in addition to learning Japanese. Korean grammar is similar to Japanese grammar, so I often compare the uses. Some things I remember in Korean because I can relate to them in Japanese. I think, oh that’s like this! But I also remember certain things because they are DIFFERENT from Japanese. In a sense when speaking Korean, I will sometimes think of “what would I say in Japanese?” instead of thinking of my native English. XD I don’t know if this is a good or bad thing though hahaha.

Up until recently, I wasn’t able to write a very long paragraph in Japanese. But just the other day I was able to sit down and write out a rather long blog entry in Japanese(4 paragraphs or so). When I had finished I was surprised by how much I had written, without thinking too much and without using a dictionary!

So I wonder, could learning another foreign language be helping my Japanese!? And in a sense, I wonder, are they both helping me learn the other?

The “hate comments” and all that other jazz you get are just natural indicators of your success. I delete copious amounts of negativity on my blog as well from people who don’t get what I do. It used to bug me, but now I just shake my head and realize that I’m doing what I love, nothing else matters.

That’s when you know you have succeeded. No one has done anything great without facing plenty of opposition. As my wing often says: “Let the losers talk the bullshit.”

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Thanks for linking my site. It’s an honor to have one of my posts linked by you and heralded as great, inspirational posts. I have to say that your blog is one of the best and most inspirational sites I’ve ever encountered. I hope that I can have the same influence over people, just in a slightly different arena.

Keep up the awesome work and I’ll see you in Japan!

Emergency

Thanks for the tip on the Iknow site. It is pretty sweet. I think it’ll be good to use as a supplement to regular reading/SRSing. Best of all it’s free.

have you visited this website yet? http://www.iknow.co.jp it works really well with your 10,000 sentence method of study, in fact, they are in the process of getting 10,000 sentences with audio up on the site… it is pretty freaking awesome, give it a try ^_^

Thanks for finally putting this up, I’m listening to one of those podcasts @ teh 仕事（今）

Anyone else know any Japanese flash games that are helpful for reading/vocab practice?

Re; the bad comments – don’t let them grind you down man. For every 1 hurtful comment some tool sends you because they’ve got nothing else to do, there’s 20 nice ones that people don’t post because they’re busy learning Japanese and having a life, so don’t stress it.