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The Evolution Inception 進化の生まれ

Yes, my blog posts will all start sounding like Episodes of the “Big Bang Theory”, I think that is just more fun. So this is a sort of general announcement about the blog, which I am praying I can stick … Continue reading

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[Long post] A serious note on my learning journey thus far…

  More on passive learning. I’ll start this post with saying I haven’t been completely honest with those of you might have been following the blog over the last year. When I said that living in Japan was difficult, I was … 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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700 Kanji and thoughts on AJATT

I’ve hit 700 Kanji and right now I am starting to understand some of the tenets of the AJATT system that I have NOT been implementing consistently. First off, I can read a lot of Japanese sentences now. Sometimes I … Continue reading

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AJATT modeling: Independence Day DVD!

I made a deal with myself to get serious about what I’m doing, which means really trying to make things as fun as possible. I went to the mall today and bought one of my favourite all time movies, Independence … Continue reading

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