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【日本語】TV For Kanji Geeks

By On November 24, 2012 · Leave a Comment

Despite everything I heard in my early stages of learning Japanese, kanji is my favorite part of learning the language.

Recently inspired by someone I look up to as a language learner and translator, I’ve been even more intense about my Kanji studies.

I recommend the following TV shows for picking up some Kanji-related stuff you [...]

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【中文】Awesome Page to Practice Tones

By On August 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

This is just a short post linking to a page I use daily in my practice of Chinese tones.

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How I Do NOT Learn Languages

By On April 15, 2012 · 2 Comments

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 [...]

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Tadoku: Experimental Round 1

By On March 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

So, I didn’t make a pre-Tadoku post like I usually do, so here’s a 多読コンテスト中 post.  This one is actually 2-week experiment, and our total page count won’t be affected by this contest.  But that’s no reason not to sign up.  Registration is still open(and will stay that way until the 24th, so get on [...]

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New Game: Learn that Song!

By On March 20, 2012 · Leave a Comment

There seems to be very few, if any, naysayers about learning language through music. In my experience, learning with music is a great way to work on pronunciation and it is also a great way to remember vocabulary or grammar.  

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