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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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Learning Kanji From Context

Thursday, January 31, 2008

Tae Kim has a great final post up on the “Remembering the Kanji” books. The best part isn’t when he discusses the merits of RTK but when he describes the process he went through in learning Kanji.

I may have mentioned this before but I never studied kanji; I studied the words that are made [...]

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Starting with Heisig

Saturday, December 1, 2007

Keep it simple. It’s amazing to me how many people learning Japanese do everything within their power to not read anything in Japanese. As though there is this magical point when they have memorized enough Kanji, drilled enough vocab, and crammed enough grammar, reading fluently will spontaneously occur.
Now, to be fair, reading Japanese [...]

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