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Monthly Archives: July 2008

When Does Learning Occur?

Monday, July 14, 2008

Part of our natural tendency to want to study-study-study to learn Japanese is how we think learning occurs.  We equate study with learning.  They are certainly related, but there’s a lot more to it.
Let’s start from another type of development activity for humans: exercise.  Specifically, strength training and weight lifting.
You go to the gym and [...]

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Collecting Sentences or Learning Japanese?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

It’s become popular of late to “collect sentences”.  As though this is a goal unto itself.
There have even been a few discussions on the interwebs. Some have even blossomed into organized efforts with semi-elaborate controls on copyrighted works.
 I did my own experiment with these a while back because I thought this was a good idea [...]

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