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There Are No Difficulty Levels

Monday, October 27, 2008

Khatzumoto’s impromptu video on language learning over at AllJapaneseAllTheTime is a fun one. I recommend checking out the whole thing.
I’d also like to reiterate my point in the last post on reading levels. Khatzumoto described his progress for listening to a language as moving from hearing gibberish, to hearing the occasional word, to [...]

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There Are No Reading Levels

Monday, October 20, 2008

This post has been a very long time coming.  It’s about how we approach reading Japanese.  It’s about expectancy versus expectation.
Expectations are what happens in a perfect world.  The ideal.  What’s supposed to happen.  It’s a list of vocabulary or kanji we’re supposed to know when we see them.
Expectancy is anticipating and dealing with what [...]

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