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laddr 09/20/2019 at 2:29 pm on Is Jalup Intermediate Too Hard?I would say for sure okay to do that. Intermediate somewhat assumes knowledge of kanji keywords. If you haven't done kanji kingdom or rtk then you are at a big disadvantage in intermediate when trying to go j-j. It can be done but it makes...
Zyphur 09/20/2019 at 1:48 pm on Is Jalup Intermediate Too Hard?I'm currently struggling with Intermediate. I have one question with how to approach studying. If faced with a kanji that I can't read in one of the definitions, is it okay to use google translate to get the reading of the kanji so that I...
Adam 09/19/2019 at 10:06 am on The 16 Levels of Japanese FailureThanks for sharing your failure list. Everyone has their own failure list version, so it is interesting and useful to see all the similarities/differences. - Adam 09/19/2019 at 9:57 am on The 16 Levels of Japanese FailureWell at least that's a lot less failures than I had :)
魚 09/18/2019 at 10:46 pm on The 16 Levels of Japanese FailureAs I was nearing the end of the Expert (Master, now? 5k cards in) I was noticing some diminishing returns on certain words because they weren’t coming from my personal immersion material. I’ve still bought the new things as a bank of cards for when...
Rob 09/17/2019 at 9:49 am on The 16 Levels of Japanese Failuregreat post, Adam Failures 12 and 6 for me. :(
Fiora 09/14/2019 at 5:39 pm on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – September 2019super late but whatevs. *create 10-20 new sentence cards on the weekends *study 2-5 of these cards each day *keep. up. with. reviews. even do it in 1 minute sessions with a break after if that's what it takes to get through it. *keep watching...
Jesper T 09/11/2019 at 12:28 pm on Achieving Your Japanese Goals – September 2019* Do all reviews * Keep doing lots of immersion * Complete Jalup Champion stage 4 at 5 cards per day
- Adam 09/08/2019 at 10:50 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningMostly for programming now. Maybe occasionally will check in and catch up on old Japanese reviews that start to build up.
Max 09/07/2019 at 2:09 pm on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningWell, if I reaching some higher levels over at wanikani I might consider applying for a guest post ;) I will keep this in mind for the future :) and until then I slowly but surely keep progressing on my japanese journey
my 09/07/2019 at 7:50 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningDo you still do Anki?
- Adam 09/03/2019 at 9:09 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningYou are right - we all start with that fierce initial energy (otherwise we wouldn't have chosen Japanese in the first place). But how we play the long game, and make sure it is the right game for us, is what sets us up for...
- Adam 09/03/2019 at 9:06 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningI'm waiting for someone who wants to offer a guest post here on combining Jalup with Wanikani :) It seems a lot of people have found success with that. You bring up a great point, studying hardcore is fine (and even amazing) for some people....
- Adam 09/03/2019 at 9:02 am on Should I Major in Japanese in College?Consider a few things: - What's your motivation for wanting to major in it besides the job element? - Do you learn better in a classroom? - Will it give you additional experiences that you seek (meaningful connections with other Japanese learning students and teachers,...
Jonathan 09/03/2019 at 8:31 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningThis is I think one of the most inspiring articles you've written. While I think we probably all go through some sort of hard core spurt to either get us started, or get over some difficult hurdle - the real key I think is to...
Colette 09/03/2019 at 12:20 am on Should I Major in Japanese in College?I want to do a double major in college one of which is Japanese and the other is Humanities and Social Science. I’ll be minoring decision making since I wanna work as a Human rights commissioner. I’m really passionate about learning Japanese and its culture,...
- Adam 09/02/2019 at 10:45 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese Learning10-20 new cards a day, every day, for a year is hitting it very hard. Don't use my outlier example to diminish your great effort :) I think Victoria is definitely correct. And yes - you don't need to reach the final goal (which will...
- Adam 09/02/2019 at 10:41 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningI fully agree. Persistence is how you make it out alive :)
- Adam 09/02/2019 at 10:40 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningYes - looking back at older posts here, I sometimes find myself disagreeing with myself.
- Adam 09/02/2019 at 10:39 am on 6 Ways To Make The Japanese Language Like YouShould've just gone out for ramen.
- Adam 09/02/2019 at 10:39 am on What Would You Do If You Woke Up Fluent In Japanese?Haha - I like it.
Speculatores47 09/02/2019 at 7:09 am on 6 Ways To Make The Japanese Language Like YouI tried taking out my Japanese Textbook to a nice fancy restaurant but they wouldn't give me a table for two. How rude!
Victoria 09/01/2019 at 6:07 am on The Problem with Hardcore Japanese LearningGreat article! While I am definitely more on the hardcore side, I never want to tell people it's the only way because I know I have a very unique set of circumstances. The biggest determining factor that gets people to fluency is persistence, and second...