【中文】Chinese without Pinyin: A New Experiment

 

I’ve been thinking about learning Chinese for a while now, which is why I’ve been learning the characters on zhongwen.com.  But rather than wait until I’m done with that site to start learning things I could use today, I could, well, start today.

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【日本語】Game Spotlight: 戦場のヴァルキュリアDUEL

One of my recent distractions in Japanese was beta testing a spinoff Valkyria Chronicles game.  This is an online card battle game on the well-known Japanese game portal Hangame. Fans of the Valkyria Chronicles series may have or have not heard of SEGA’s spinoff entry in the series, which  sounds horrible at first, but it’s surprisingly fun and well done.

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How I Do NOT Learn Languages

This is one of those “mistake” posts, cause language learning isn’t all good stuff.  Sometimes I screw up.  Then I share it with you guys.

 

I’d been ignoring my SRS for a while now, and I decided to change things up.  First, I noticed that while I was flying through 100-300 reps from my Japanese deck everyday, I would cringe at the mere thought of doing 30 reps from my Korean deck.  Now what the heck was going on?

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