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Burnout and Language Learning

Sunday, March 16, 2008

Burnout is the greatest enemy of learning any language. It takes a goal like fluency that motivates you, that drives you, and turns it into something you hate.
I think most of us have had that moment when we’ve worn ourselves down trying to memorize as much as we can in as little time as [...]

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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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What does it mean to “know” a word?

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

What do you get when you review a word with flashcards or a spaced repetition system?
When you can go through a list and give all the correct answers, what have you accomplished? Do you know the words or are you simply adept at reciting answers?
What does it mean to “know” a word? At [...]

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