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Achieving Your Japanese Goals – March 2020

3 Feb 26

The Great Filter of Learning Japanese and Some Numbers to Cheer you Up

8 Feb 23

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laddr on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – March 2020This month is a HUGE milestone for me, I will finish Jalup (yay)! After March will therefore be a huge transition for me so I will need to do some serious planning for that. I...
laddr on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – February 2020February went well, especially for a short month and the trip I had. I did 12 cards a day, only one day did I do 8 because I forgot to preload the next batch and...
Jim on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – March 20201. Your specific goal(s) a. WaniKani Level 19 (654 kanji, 2119 vocab) b. Purchase JALUP Maximum Package c. Read vol. 3-4 of Yotsubato d. 3-5 daily hours of passive and active immersion 3. Game plan/strategy...
Gareth on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – February 2020Addendum I just read this bit of the blog post "Your experience (issues, struggles, discoveries)" So for point 2: I was initially excited at doing Erin website lessons, I found that I was able to...
Gareth on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – March 2020Goals for March 1. Go to Japan and not stress about getting better at Japanese! 2. When I return (mid March) I expect to: - Start Advanced - Keep going with RTK. That will do...

Go Faster and Make Mistakes

6 Feb 17

Why do cars have brakes? To go faster. If you haven't heard of this before, take a second to realize ...

Do I Really Need to Learn this?

1 Feb 9

The unavoidable question. Often followed by speculative reasons why learning this isn't necessary for my goals. Every beginner-intermediate learner asks ...