Practice with native speakers is probably the one most important component of language learning… but it’s really hard when you aren’t in the target country. That’s why a tool like the Mixxer is so great. To use it, you add The Mixxer’s contact information into your Skype acccount. Then other Mixxer subscribers can approach you […]
the other evening, i was struggling with my homework. i haven`t been in school in so long, i`m not used to it. i`m not used to have to actually practice practice practice. it’s not that it’s hard, practice is agonizingly boring. it’s painfully boring, it’s phenomenologically, massively, excruciatingly boring. boring-boring-boring. ok. i`ll stop now!
i’m […]
wow! those GTD guys blow me away. i saw some hilarious cartoon of “your brain on multitasking” and it’s so true. 日本 a go-go write about it recently, about his own lesson plans, and what he does each day. and mike wrote about it before on japanese! japanese!. i know GTD is going global […]
i went over to japanesejapanese.com for real!
i merged my WP blog into mike’s, without any hairy database weirdness.
i simply used the handy WPexport plugin, making sure to save the exported text into a UT8-encoded text file.
then followed the import instructions.
bye bye!
I was rooting around looking for language learning materials in the English speaking market, knowing that this area is far more developed in terms of products available. In doing so, I came across probably the worst advice I’ve ever heard for learning anything:
Step 3: No mistakes: Avoid mistakes. Try to use correct English from the […]
I’d love to try an exchange with a native language speaker, but in the past face-to-face I’ve ended up speaking moostly english, and not really know what to do.
Over on 43things, I saw someone write about the problem, and was curious to ask more about it:
http://www.43things.com/comments/thread/128292
The writer, Joaquim, mentions two possible places to meet […]
on saturday i took the greetings and hiragana quizzes at Genki: An integrated course on Japanese. it was so satisfying. i knew the greetings from listening to recordings. and i knew the hiragana from practicing with my handy-dandy flashcards, and the tools mentioned before.
i’d say about 60% of my answers were process of elimination. […]
i haven’t been writing what i’ve actually been doing. i’m going to catch up here, and from now on try and do more frequent note-taking on the steps i follow. then i can reflect on what i’d do differently.
for example, i wish i had started by simply reading these four articles, which help describe […]
in a previous post, TelimTor suggested in the comments that i could write in japanese. seemed crazy to me at the time. but now that i’ve got a whopping 15 hiragana characters down, (the unvoiced, vowels, k’s and s’s) i can start taking notes in japanese. now that is fun.
(in mac, i clicked on […]
i’m trying to learn the kana through writing. i’m using A Guide to Learning Hiragana and Katakana (Tuttle Language Library) and starting with hiragana. for review i’m either going to make my own flashcards, or i was thinking i could actually do it in flash, and make electronic ones with audio.
then it dawned […]