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Japanese Immersion – The Needy Girl Strategy

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

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Why Kanji in 2023? – Response to Gaijin Otousan

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

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Can You Get God Level Japanese with Subtitles?

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

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5 Steps To Stop Yourself From Quitting on a Bad Day (Japanese)

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

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Japanese Novel Reading Ability in Less than a Year?

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

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Want To Read Novels in Japanese? – Here’s How

    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

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How To Learn 20+ Grammar Patterns a Day #Japanese

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

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Learning 183 N3 Grammar Points in 10 days

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

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How To Start Thinking in Japanese With 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

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Read My First Novel in Japanese [Thoughts]

  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

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