Surusu: What is the Skew Option and What Does it Do?
The skew function allows you to influence (“skew”) the nature of the cards that are shown you. At this writing, there are three possible skew modes: old, new and off. All pertain to card age. Off = no...
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Intermediate Angst: Dealing With Feelings of Suckage
Thus spake Hangul Fangirl (@HangulFangirl): “[Dear Khatzumoto, You are handsome beyond comprehension. And also very slim. Your delicate, schoolgirl figure is an inspiration to us all.] How do you get...
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Beware premature optimization. Often the best way and time to do something is "at all". #SRS #immersion 17:10:03 12 ways I used to get my Mandarin to Native Level Fluency | Foreign Language Hacking...
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Do Not Look Directly At Sun. May Cause Schlep Blindness.
This entry is part 9 of 7 in the series Intermediate Angst“The practice of sungazing is dangerous. Looking directly at the sun for even brief periods of time may cause blindness or severe damage to the...
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ビジネス英語翻訳學習館 "POTUS"って何？ t.co/OJXwqNe4zh 17:10:04 A lack of sleep—not age—may dull memory skills | The Advisory Board Company t.co/0J619xjQmG 21:04:04 Cantonese Sci-Fi Podcast Sci-Fi全面睇 – 開台 Open Radio...
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You Are What You Eat, You Write What You Read, You Speak What You Hear
The attentive will recall that Jamie (an AJATTeer) came up with what I still consider to be the greatest analogy in the history of learning languages about a year ago. The attentive will also recall...
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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-05-04
"Anyone who doesn't believe in the impossible is not a realist" ~ Horst Teltschik 16:00:13 "…every single hearing baby on Earth somehow managed to learn every single language on Earth…"...
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It Counts If You Let It
This entry is part 10 of 8 in the series Intermediate Angst“Perseverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after the other.” ~ Walter Elliot You rarely get instant full victories,...
View ArticleMoe Dictionary Bookmarklet
The Moe Dictionary is a monolingual Chinese dictionary. I think it’s relatively new and it’s pretty cool. I like it so far. Here’s a bookmarklet for it: MoeDict/萌 Source...
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Mandarin Mini-Transcript: Memorable Quotes From Batman: The Dark Knight Rises
So, apparently, a Batman movie came out last year and it was a big deal? Haha. No, I watched it and loved it. I wish Christopher Nolan were in charge of the recent Marvel Comics movies as well,...
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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-05-11
蘇施黃 – 維基百科，自由的百科全書 t.co/6YG0JFJzcy 16:00:09 So Far 蘇 Good S1 EP22 – YouTube t.co/GugBPJmtJ8 #croissants #cantonese #牛角包 18:00:19 Band of brothers (兄弟連.諾曼地大登陸)不完全觀後感 – 將將國-無名小站 t.co/SyLbV1INDF 20:00:42...
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12 Common Reading Mistakes You’re Making That You Need to Stop Making if You...
Stop not reading things because they’re popular Is it popular? Read it! Stop not reading things because they’re unpopular Once you get through that clusterhump of negation, you’ll understand: Is it...
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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-05-18
岡田斗司夫ゼミ最終回(4月号)~オタクな嘘と都市伝説SP t.co/uadCea1TZX @minitubeappさんから 16:00:10 【近年最好港漫封神紀2】52天有多高 – Acfun-天下漫友是一家 t.co/L9xSlD6YCa #hk #comics 18:00:20 港漫，在臺灣永遠都受到岐視 – ace0824的創作-巴哈姆特 t.co/vLIECDZFeW 20:00:11...
View ArticleGrinding: Focus On What You CAN Do
This entry is part 5 of 9 in the series Intermediate AngstOften enough, a comment puts it much better than I ever put it. This was one such situation. Handsome AJATTeer Pingfa brings us back to basics,...
View ArticleGetting There Is Also Your Life
This entry is part 8 of 10 in the series Intermediate AngstThe journey of getting used to a language is so psychologically long that it can’t merely be a means to an end. It must become an end in...
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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-05-25
"藏身之所(DVD9)演員: 丹澤爾•華盛頓 (Denzel Washington), 瑞安•雷諾茲 (Ryan Reynolds) " t.co/xhUTYFMdma 16:00:40 It's not hard. You just don't know an easy way. Yet. 18:00:16 You don't get what you put in. You get...
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Don’t Debate: Experiment
This entry is part 9 of 9 in the series Social Resistance“…the yeoman work in any science…is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.” ~ Michio Kaku Every so often, perhaps...
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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-06-01
"涙に濡れても笑顔枯れても 怖がる事はないよ僕らは弱い生き物なんだから 手を取り合おう" t.co/7GX8kU6MqE 16:00:06 Telling yourself to do something hard is the same thing as telling yourself to do nothing at all. t.co/ndAUhpK0Ot 18:00:15 Stop...
View ArticleThe Trouble With Heritage Languages
The problem with learning an ancestral or “heritage” language is that it takes just as much effort as learning any other language, except that you get no credit whatsoever for doing it well (and it’s...
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SRS: If In Doubt, Throw It Out — Ambivalence Is the Greatest Enemy
Cards you’re ambivalent about are worse than cards that you hate. Cards you hate get acted on instantly, but the ones you’re ambivalent about are allowed to accumulate until they outnumber the ones you...
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