Comments on: You can have do or be ANYthing, but you can’t have do or be EVERYthing

By: Miss Language Learning

Miss Language Learning — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:16:12 +0000

Wow you’re full of ****. Good luck.

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By: Kimura

Kimura — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:32:59 +0000

I tried doing that with Minecraft, but the language mod hasn’t been updated to 1.8… (Normally, changing languages is as easy as replacing en_US.lang and deleting META-INF, but since it’s a different character set, actual code modding is required.) Guess I have to be content with 日本語でマインクラフトのLPs…

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By: Their Freedom To Hate → Your Freedom To Become Great | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Mon, 03 Oct 2011 23:46:37 +0000

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By: Social Resistance | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Social Resistance | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Tue, 20 Sep 2011 06:00:49 +0000

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By: Santiago

Santiago — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:13:34 +0000

Why not get a mod and play songs in Japanese?

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By: AJATT Plus » 優先順位万能主義

AJATT Plus » 優先順位万能主義 — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 15:01:17 +0000

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By: AD

AD — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:36:01 +0000

I don’t know if you’ll read this Tal, but it is pretty obvious that the reason he is so demanding is because he knows that we are all adults, and all have English in our lives somewhere. He even stated this.

However, if he suddenly said, ‘f it, just try and put the Japanese wherever it seems good, preferably after dinner and before late night with talk show host’ then the whole meaning would be lost.

/もうちょっと頑張って下さいね！

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By: Tal

Tal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:30:20 +0000

Hm. This article *almost* made me completely abandon learning Japanese.

You are telling me I have to not see my friends, not participate in society, not make NEW friends except for with people who speak Japanese…

Screw.

That.

Noise.

This reads like some sort of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Language God”. Don’t watch that movie on the weekend w/ your friends, YOU’LL FAIL!
Don’t chat with people in English… YOU’LL FAIL!

That entire post was about as demotivational as possible. Also, a ton of hogwash, as you yourself said that you had “a life, a job”, etc etc etc.

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By: AD

AD — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:19:57 +0000

It’s called opportunity cost.

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » How Do I Learn 500 Languages At Once?!

Wed, 14 Oct 2009 05:10:28 +0000

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By: Neema

Neema — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 14:51:04 +0000

Your post – which is excellent by the way – made me think of this lecture by Alain de Botton. See below:

www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success.html

In particular, at about 13:30 when he says “You can’t be successful at everything…You can’t have it all. Any vision of success has to admit what it’s losing out on.”

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » All In Moderation

Sun, 13 Sep 2009 15:02:06 +0000

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Unrealistic Expectations That You Need To Stop Having

Sun, 24 May 2009 15:02:12 +0000

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By: NaNa

NaNa — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:49:45 +0000

Hmm… I agree with you that complete immersion into Japanese would be the most effective way to learn the language, but the whole section about “willing to give up your native language” or your “Non-Japanese life”… I’m not sure I could do that. Isn’t that exaggerating a little? For one, my passion is writing. No way I can ever give that up, even for a few months. But doesn’t that mean I would “fail” at learning Japanese? Maybe your method works, however, it’s not for me I guess.

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By: Jonathan Mahoney

Jonathan Mahoney — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 23:53:02 +0000

I’m passionate about languages, thought I haven’t tried out this 24/7 technique yet I can’t help but feel wrong reading this blog in English when I could be focusing on another language. I haven’t delved in to the Japanese language yet, but I’m glad to have looked into your site and to find that your posts really apply to the study of any language.

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By: Aether

Aether — Thu, 26 Feb 2009 13:47:28 +0000

I actually do think growing wings and flying is possible, just perhaps not in our time (If someone made flying with wings their goal in life that might all change). Nothing is actually impossible, but some are unlikely to be achieved. If someone is okay with the possibility that he/she may fail then why stop that person? Also, he talks of race because it’s a valid point. A person might give up on something because someone else is better and depending on the situation might use race as an excuse. I’ve seen this happen (even did it myself once) and I must admit that many times the person just doesn’t want to persist and dedicate themselves to the goal. Even if you don’t have the physical build of Michael Jordan, that doesn’t mean you can’t be as good or better than him, and even if I’m wrong and race plays a factor, you could surpass him in something he lacks, maybe mastering how to catch others off guard or special passing techniques, whatever, but saying an advantage someone has over you makes it impossible to improve or gives you a reason to quit is just an excuse.

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By: Kyotokid

Kyotokid — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 08:45:19 +0000

I disagree with your analogies but I agree with the conclusion. Michael Jordon was one in a million, and not everyone can be him. I also don’t care how much you want to grow wings and fly, it will be impossible.

However, anyone can learn any language. The question is just how much time and effort is put into it. Some with greater natural ability will need less work, but absolutely anyone can learn a foreign language, particularly if they follow your strategies.

Finally, why all the African talk in your posts? I don’t find it offensive or anything, but you seem to harp on race more than necessary. Another obsession perhaps?

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By: Harry

Harry — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 20:03:00 +0000

Breathe Japanese? Drink it, sleep it, Live it? Sounds good. I suppose its time to get out of English completely. :]

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By: ウォーリック

ウォーリック — Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:13:41 +0000

Personally I feel a little wary about getting movies dubbed outside of their original language. I just can’t help feeling that whenever a text gets translated something gets lost somewhere.

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Not that I’m generally all that worried about getting western movies as my Japanese DVD collection outnumbers my English collection 22 to 4 (and I still can’t work out why the heck the DVDs for Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within and The Animatrix would come without a Japanese language track)… I’ll still get Wall-e when it comes out though.

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By: JB

JB — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 00:43:31 +0000

Great post. I’m taking your advice from the last two paragraphs, but substituting words like “grad school”, “philosopher”, “writer”, and other things I’m toying with in place of “Japanese”. You’ve made some good points.

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