Textbook learning: check. Immersion learning: big question mark. When you finally reach for your first manga or anime, there is no bigger question than whether you should choose something based on whether it is interesting to you or whether you can understand it. How you answer this will significantly affect your desire to study. Are you choosing the right answer for yourself? In a perfect … Continue reading →
A few updates to discuss! Jalup App – User Notes This is a huge feature update for the Jalup app (currently iOS only). The ability to add your own personal user notes to every card. This adds a new level of customization to your cards. This can be used to remind yourself of something important, list little discoveries that you make on subsequent reviews, add … Continue reading →
2004 – Studying Japanese in a class consisted of tests, quizzes, finals, and mostly uninspired traditional methods that persisted for too long. In comes a high school student, who asks his teacher if instead of doing a boring oral biography for his final, he could do a flash video. “Furasshu!?” shouts the teacher (I’m sure). Flash – a forgotten era of creativity. This was the … Continue reading →
Using the Jalup decks on Anki, but always wanted to give the Jalup app a try? The thought of losing your Anki progress keeping you far away from ever considering it? Well let’s solve this problem. The following is a guide on how to convert your Anki progress to the Jalup App, so you can continue learning and reviewing like nothing has changed – except … Continue reading →
The Jalup App, released in 2018, is hopefully helping you power through all of your Japanese studying. As it grows and becomes more complex, I realized it would be useful to have a full guide on this site to assist you in navigating the app, revealing some features you may not have noticed, and giving you some bonus tips on how to make the most … Continue reading →
We all have goals, big and small. Things get in the way, preventing you from achieving them. Not any more. This time you are going to win. Task Write down specific goals you want to achieve for the month of February Initial Instructions Leave a comment by February 1st and include: 1. Your specific goal(s) 2. Resources you will use 3. Game plan/strategy Completion Instructions Reply to … Continue reading →
More Jalup cards? How far can I possibly go ? That’s a question I often ask myself. It’s why there was such a big gap between Jalup Hero and Master and then again between Jalup Master and now. This deck series from the beginning has been all about experimentation. I had no idea what would and wouldn’t work. It has only been through the help … Continue reading →
Reading a mountain of novels is what takes your Japanese from good to great. But finding material that has a nice balance between what interests you and what you can understand isn’t always the easiest endeavor. What’s worse is that it can become costly at an intermediate or advanced stage, when you want to try out a lot of novels to see what works best … Continue reading →
