From the yearly archives:
On learning Japanese and Korean.
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I have tried smart.fm again with Thai. It's really very useful. I typically don't learn from lists generated by other people. But in this last trip to...
Hi Alex. This article inspired me to add a post to my blog. In fact, your post got me to learn 4 new words in less than 5 minutes. If you get a cha...
Yep, I agree with your theory on the matter. People think that watching or listening to something in their target language = having to understand eve...
on The 1%I have to agree with the post on this one. My experience learning Korean was much easier for having known Japanese. Even some of the explanations made...
on The 1%Your class makeup is a lot like mine :)- Rikai-chan did indeed become a mindless-crutch for a while, but since passing 1kyu I have found it a useful tool again, because I basically do know ab...
on The 1%Interesting post. I believe that the abysmally low success rate is due to one and one reason only - lack of a clear focus.You see, most of us language...
on The 1%"Westerners coming at the language from a completely different linguistic perspective have to put in a lot more effort to learn Japanese."I think that...
Two things strike me about Sir Richard's approach, he was committed to learning a little everyday and he used multiple techniques. The technology is s...
I humbly disagree with this blog, too. Perhaps I have more willpower not to mouse over words without first tryiing to figure them out. For me, I jus...