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    • Cute Girls, Mathematics, Language

    December 21, 2007
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    Recently, I met this one girl. She’s really cute. And she knows Japanese. Fluently. Native-level fluently. After only studying it four years. She talks circles around people who studied it for four years in college. Why is this girl so good at Japanese? Because she spent 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a years studying...

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    It’s Not The Years, It’s the Seconds: A Stack of Washingtons Is Not Worth The Same As a Stack of Benjamins

    September 14, 2011
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    Measuring language "study" time in years is like trying to count mixed cash by weighing it. Hello? Denominations...

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    So Should We Track and Log Every Second of Japanese?

    September 27, 2011
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    きのこ on September 19, 2011 at 11:20 “Come on, Khatz — who really keeps track of every single second?” j.mp/nper5S No one does. And I would never suggest you do. What I mean is that we need to be aware of “real time” — the time we actually spend in physical contact with Japanese, and not “project time” —...

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    Why Seconds And Not Hours?

    September 28, 2011
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    Eri on September 28, 2011 at 07:38: I think counting things in hours at least is more sensible; seconds can give an impression of more than it actually is (“I’ve studied for a million seconds!” “But that’s only like, 228 hours…”) www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blog/so-should-we-track-and-log-every-second-of-japanese Why do I kind of insist or…persist…in counting language exposure time in seconds? Because it’s a cheap...

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