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But What If Immersion Makes It So I Learn Words Wrong?
Anonymous on February 12, 2014 at 03:54 The one thing that I’m self conscious about (and I speak from analogous experience) is that I’ll learn incorrectly. I’m not sure how to explain it too well, but...
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It Worked For Me, Why Not You? The Success Story of a Frenchman In The...
Good day to you, Mr. Khatz It’s morning here in cloudy Amsterdam, and I just thought I’d kill some time sharing my little story with you while eating yesterday’s leftover sushi. There is nothing quite...
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Why Are You Still Trying To Learn from Your Mistakes?
Failure has nothing to teach you. Don’t learn from your mistakes. There is one and only one bit of useful, reliable information you can safely glean from failure: “that didn’t work”. Which is...
View ArticleWhy Do Keep Asking For Advice From People Who Have No Business Giving It?
Here’s a couple of life tips for ya. Free of charge. Don’t ask non-thin people how to get thin. Don’t ask non-rich people how to get rich. Don’t ask illiterate people how to learn to read. Because they...
View ArticleWill Laddering Work Even With Highly Dissimilar Languages?
Thus spake Aki Khatz!! I have a question regarding this as a person starting their 3rd language. I’m a native English speaker, and in 2 years I became fluent in Japanese (whether...
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Why Do You Keep Spending Your Time Doing Things So You Can Have Fun Instead...
So, big Ayn Rand 1 fan here. Big. Bulbous. I’ve worn out many a pillow fantasizing over that woman. No, seriously, though, I just got done reading a couple of the new Ayn Rand bios that came...
View ArticleWhy Don’t You Learn Like You Eat?
The point of eating food is not simply to get full. The point of learning a language is not simply to memorize a really big vocabulary, or even to get good at the language. Well, unfortunately, it is...
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Why Do You Hate All the Best Parts of Being a Gaijin in Japan?
「すべての戦爭は內戦である。なぜならば、人類はみな仲間である。」 ランソワ・フェネロン “All wars are civil wars, because all men are brothers.” – Francois Fenelon File this one under “Life in Japan”. And subtitle it: How I Learned to Stop...
View ArticleTop Ten Essential Japanese Phrases, Vol. 1
死ね！ Live long and prosper! お前、誰？ To whom do I have the pleasure of speaking? ラブホ行こう。 Let us adjourn to a rest area for further deliberation. おい、ブス！飯食いに行こうぜ。 Why, hello, young lady! Would you care to...
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What Would Happen If You Went Mad Like Sparta and Started Immersing Like a...
AJATTeer Tom Lazarus (no relation, no known death experiences) shares an insanely great immersion technqiue that he affectionately (and rather pragmatically) dubs “double-barrelled listening”. As in,...
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How to Learn Japanese (Including Kanji) Without Ever Trying, By Literally...
So you wanna know how? Check this out. And tell your friends, too
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When Are You Going to Stop Trying to Score Only Three-Pointers, Start Making...
Stop trying to do the best possible. Just stwop it. Stwop it. Mmmkay? It’s not working. You know why I know it’s not working? Because if it were working, it’d be working. And you wouldn’t be here. Stop...
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From the Mouths of Babes: A High School Girl Shares Her AJATT Success Story
Hey Khatz, I just thought I’d send you an (almost done) success story. My name is Mariah, and I’m a junior in high school; I’ve been doing the AJATT method on-and-off since the summer of 8th grade, but...
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Why is Knowing the Whys of Grammar a Waste of Your Time?
You don’t need a reason why, you just need to know that’s that’s how people — natives — say things. That’s more than enough for you do to deal with right now. Why create work for yourself? Just copy....
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Why is Hedonistic Learning Good for You?
If your process sucks, then your life sucks. And if your life sucks, then (get this…wait for it…) your life sucks. And no milestone can change that. No milestone will erase day-to-day suckage. No peak...
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Why Don’t You Do Like Bruce Lee Said And Have Nice, Warm Glass of Calm the Fu…?
One is reminded of Juggernaut from X-Men 3: The Last Stand. For a fan of the X-Men comics, the movie version of JG was too small, but that’s beside the point. Juggernaut is an unstoppable force. And if...
View Article[Immersion] Why Is the Pause Button Your Enemy?
The pause button is a cruel mistress. Sure, it lets you pick up from right when you left off. But the problem is that in today’s frenetic, over-stimulated world, with all the choices available to us 1,...
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[Immersion] Why You Should Stop Trying to Control or Measure Time
Stop trying to control and measure time. Now, don’t get me wrong, I still love (and use) timeboxing. But that’s almost more about controlling the self and forcing out perfectionism than it is about...
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