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Exile Catchy Best - Well Said.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Exile Catchy Best….Catchy….Catchy Best.  In English that sounds absolutely horrible.  No English pop group would dare put such a name on their album but there it is on a new best hits album from the J-Pop group Exile.
Sometimes it seems like the Japanese are intentionally butchering English to make some crazy point.
In Japanese, “Catchy Best” [...]

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Keep It Moving

Wednesday, April 23, 2008

I ran across some interesting “rules” that accompany Ask Publishing’s Japanese Graded Readers:

１．やさしいレベルから読む
Start at an easy level
２．辞書を引かないで読む
Read without using a dictionary
３．わからないところは飛ばして読む
Skip any parts you don’t understand
４．進まなくなったらやめて、ほかの本を読む
When you hit a bottleneck, stop. Read a different book.

While I don’t think “rules” are necessary (and I do find it fun to read material that is far above my [...]

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How long does it take to learn 1 Kanji?

Sunday, February 10, 2008

All the tools I’ve seen out there are about learning Kanji Now! Fast! Locking it in your brain forever! Special mnemonic techniques! Learn hundreds of Kanji in a few days, remember them forever!
While it would be lovely to flip a switch and immediately understand another language. These things take time. So I’ll [...]

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