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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...
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The Support Ticket System Is Dead, Back To Email: The Great Email Reboot of 2013
This entry is part 3 of 2 in the series The Great Support Ticket System Backlog of 2013OK. Guess what? You know that AJATT support ticket system? Total failure. Pretty much. And it’s my fault, not...
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[SilverSpoon] Join Neutrino Now (Spaces Permitting)
Thank you for your interest in the SilverSpoon/Neutrino program. Neutrino is now temporarily opening up for new enrollment into the program. However, right of entry is restricted to people on the VIP...
View ArticleShadowing: No One Will Ever Love You Again
If an idea makes you afraid that no one will ever love you again, then it’s probably a good idea. Here’s a dirty little secret: Murderers get loved before, during and after the fact. There are Slavic...
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How To Get Used to Using Computers and Other Gadgets in Japanese
There’s always been a bit of a catch-22 with learning to use a personal computer (or smartphone or similarly advanced device) in Japanese. What exactly do I mean? Well, like: you need to learn Japanese...
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Mediocre Excellence
This entry is part 1 of 6 in the series Mediocre Excellence“What would be really interesting to see…is how beautiful things grow out of s##t. Because nobody ever believes that. Everybody thinks that...
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View ArticleThe Intermediate Phase Is Like Tepid Tea, But That’s Fine, Because Tepid Tea...
This entry is part 16 of 15 in the series Intermediate AngstSo, I have three older sisters, which means that I grew up in a house full of women. Why does Khatz act like a girl doing an impression of a...
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Surusu Update: MCDs/Cloze Deletions: Eurogram and Manual Mode Merged + WAV...
“Eurogram” mode and “Manual mode” have been merged into one, so now it’s all just called “manual” mode. All the features that were part of “Eurogram” mode are now part of manual mode as well. Default =...
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Persian Immersion
Peep this. So I’m in Vancouver. And I’m hungry for something awesome to put into my mouth. So I go into this Persian bakery, because that’s a good place to find awesome things to put into my mouth. So...
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All Choices Are Binary
This entry is part 6 of 5 in the series The First World Problem is Choice“Don’t make the right decision; make the decision right” Dunno who first said it, but I heard it from Ali Brown Once, a little...
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If You’re Ever Stuck Between Two Languages, Pick the Less “Useful” One
This entry is part 6 of 6 in the series The First World Problem is ChoiceIf you’re ever stuck between two languages, pick the less “useful” one: it’s the one you really want to learn. Broadly speaking,...
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Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred
Yeah, I said it. Sacred. For once, I am deliberately courting a dogmatic approach and intepretation of AJATT “canon”. TL;DR: if ever in immersion doubt, prioritize your ears. Anchor your ears in your...
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Vocabulary Expansion: Circle of Concern, Circle of Control
「古之慾明明德於天下者，先治其國；欲治其國者，先齊其家；欲齊其家者，先修其身；欲修其身者，先正其心；欲正其心者，先誠其意；欲誠其意者，先致其知・・・」 大學 “The ancients who wished to illustrate illustrious virtue throughout the world, first ordered well their own states....
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How To Be Angry, Snarky, Hyperbolic, Emotional, Witty, Petulant and Sarcastic...
A common criticism of the Japanese language, people and culture is that there’s no irony. There’s no real comedy. You’ll hear this from gaijin who couldn’t order pizza over the phone in Japanese. And,...
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Learning A Language Isn’t Hard, Taking Mental Beatings Is
Learning a language isn’t hard. At all. In any way. What’s hard is taking all the mental beatings you give yourself. Stop the beatings and it’s all smooth sailing. In fact, it becomes so easy that...
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Zombies and Japanese, Or, The Halloween Horror Sentence Pack: Available Only...
Japan is many things, and one of those things is a great producer and consumer of fear- and thrill-generating experiences. And you are many things. But above all, you are a lover of Halloween, or as we...
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Surusu Update: New Pattern Matching Feature
Brothers and sisters, rejoice in the name of Surusu! For a new feature is upon us, and her name shall be called wonderful pattern matching! And the government of cards shall be upon her shoulders....
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The Best Case Scenario of Fluency
The best case scenario is that your skills will become invisible to you. In. vis. ible. You don’t even realize that the “mere” act of walking is a skill you developed through practice and that if you...
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