Author Archives: marcusbird

Yes, an aspect of this title was a bit click-baity, but you’ll see why. A Need Girl or a Needy Guy is always around you, clinging to your every move, watching everything you do, hovering around you, shadowing you and … Continue reading →

A person I follow on twitter (Gaijin Otousan) asked a very good question recently. Why use Kanji in 2023? Why multiple character sets? Why no spaces between words? As a person who has done pretty intensive studies in learning Kanji … Continue reading →

Today i’m going to give you a quick breakdown of the massive advantages of utilizing simultaneous subtitles.  Before I go into this, let’s discuss the elephant in the room. To utilize this information you already need to be able to read … Continue reading →

Today was one of those days where I literally felt the stress rise from my toes up to my brain. I skimmed through a book I printed quite some time ago, a self-organized word list of the first 5,000 high … Continue reading →

Like many of you, i’ve dreamed of the day i’d be able to tackle a Japanese novel. As I get deeper and deeper into my learning systems having studied (5) languages, I am starting to see a ‘unified pattern’ emerging, … Continue reading →

    I’m currently reading through 真夜中は別の顔 The Other Side of Midnight, by Sidney Sheldon, translated into Japanese. Several months ago I wrote a post about reading through my first short novella. The God level goal for most Japanese super studiers is to … Continue reading →

In your strategy to do things super quick, you need to make certain compromises. There are a few main compromises I make in the beginning when pushing through studying a lot of grammar, to ensure I don’t get (too) stressed … Continue reading →

Hey guys! This is another report to track more testing i’m doing. Okay so one of the most difficult things for anyone to do is look at a list of Japanese grammar, knowing them must learn dozens and dozens and … Continue reading →

Greetings. I’ll go through the three phases i’m observing relative to this topic. Set The Environment Trigger the Mind Train Recall Normally NOTE: The research i’m speaking about here requires intermediate ability. To implement what i’m doing You should know … Continue reading →

  In this article I’m going to talk about The Story Where I am (level wise) How I Learned 400 verbs in 3.5 weeks Future Goals   STORY SUMMARY 美智子の星空　Michiko no hoshi sora  or “Michko’s Starry Sky”, is a short … Continue reading →