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Collecting Sentences or Learning Japanese?

Tuesday, July 8, 2008

It’s become popular of late to “collect sentences”.  As though this is a goal unto itself.
There have even been a few discussions on the interwebs. Some have even blossomed into organized efforts with semi-elaborate controls on copyrighted works.
 I did my own experiment with these a while back because I thought this was a good idea [...]

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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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