Tag Archives: AJATT method

Context Manipulation

  Context Manipulation It:s a rainy morning here in Tokyo, and I was on the train, fiddling with Death Note. During a burst of inspiration a few months ago, I tried going “All Japanese All the Time” to push myself … Continue reading

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1500 Kanji, 73% done with RTK1

1500 Kanji I’m burning through my last 500 Kanji now. I’m at frame 1512 and I’m starting to feel as if I am achieving something. I mentioned in a previous post that I am not getting too hung up on … Continue reading

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今年もおめでと!

Wishing everyone a happy new year from Japan to Jamaica. It’s been an interesting year for me, and looking back there were some nice moments and some rough patches. Last this year, I had just come back from a trip … Continue reading

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Blazing through the last 800 Kanji, a test method

I’m going to implement this today. I think when people are using systems, sometimes they might do things a little differently, or create processes that help them to work around time constraints, etc. AJATT refers to this as “throw away … Continue reading

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Missing Link: The Action step of AJATT

  Scrolling through my twitter feeds, I noticed a post by AJATT about “why most people forget the action step of AJATT” and in reading it, I came to a revelation. As a person somewhat actively tracking what I am … Continue reading

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Learning DNA

Learning DNA I wrote a very long post about my lackluster studying habits which I never posted. I might at some point, to show the contrast in my thinking at times… but I had a recent semi-revelation as it relates … Continue reading

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Jamaican and Canadian talk Japanese

Paul Nogas from Canadian learning Japanese left me quite an interesting comment recently and mentioned me in an blog post critiquing different methods of learning Japanese. There are literally hundreds of forums talking about different methods, particulary the AJATT ( … Continue reading

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Learning without studying, from noise to understanding

I took a big plunge and feel the momentum of my Japanese progression. See, for the last several months i’ve been learning Japanese passively. Meaning, I haven’t been actively studying, speaking more than normal, practicing, listening to Japanese music or … Continue reading

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Road to Vocabulary Part two

This is a quick post on transitions. I’ve been in Japan for over a year now, and the utter noise of Kanji, sometimes unintelligible chatter of Japanese natives around me, plus bright lights, roaring trains and cheezy J-pop music have … Continue reading

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900 Kanji!

Another 100 Kanji. Phew… i’ve posted enough on my methods for linking to help with moving faster. But you really have to spend that 3 minutes visualizing the hard stuff. I’m trying to hit a thousand by Monday and then … Continue reading

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