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Monthly Archives: August 2008

Learning From Drudgery

Friday, August 22, 2008

I was going to respond to Charley Garret’s comment on the Collecting Sentence or Learning Japanese post directly but I decided to break it out into another post.
He makes a great point that there is some value in bringing in sentences through a collection.  That reducing the drudgery of entering sentences is, in the long run, [...]

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Recalling Japanese or Using Japanese?

Thursday, August 7, 2008

In my opinion, the biggest challenge for learning Japanese is not whether you have the best teachers, techniques, methodologies or other nonsense.  It is your interest.  Real “discipline” come from interest, not will power.  Real dedication comes through interest, not self-flagellation to maintain focus.
And so the question that I ask whenever I see someone struggling to [...]

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