Tag Archives: jamaican in japan

Falling off the Japanese Wagon

Posted on September 14, 2011 by marcusbird

What’s up guys, I haven’t posted in a while for good reason. I hit a roadblock that had nothing to do with feel bad, stressed, but more with being bored. As much as I am seeing my progress and see … Continue reading →

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The Japanese balancing act

Posted on September 6, 2011 by marcusbird

This blog post has been a long time coming for several reasons. The main reason is that as it relates to balancing the key aspects of Japanese study, its based on the significant entry hurdle Japanese characters scare new learners … Continue reading →

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Japanese Brain Squeeze

Posted on August 4, 2011 by marcusbird

Core2000 review current Step 3: I’m definitely either going too hardcore, or doing something right. I remember a very, very long time ago I took a Japanese class in college. For the entire semester, we had to learn maybe, twenty … Continue reading →

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Core2000 Observation two

Posted on August 3, 2011 by marcusbird

Program: Core2000 current step: Step 3 Today I was really trying to blaze through Step 3, but alas, its not that easy. But I did learn some cool words that I’ve been recognizing but not remembering like 最近（さいきん）which means “recently”. … Continue reading →

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JLJ 6: Tackling big Kanji (part 3 of 3 for transitioning from Heisig)

Posted on July 29, 2011 by marcusbird

This is the last part of my videos on transitioning from Heisig (unless I figure out some other cool observations). Here I chat about tackling large groups of Kanji, and how using Heisig can help to break them up, and … Continue reading →

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JLJ: Transitioning from Heisig to reading Part 2 of 3

Posted on July 28, 2011 by marcusbird

Here I talk about learning multiple meanings for the same Kanji with two examples. Many people often wonder how these meanings are learned in context after doing the Heisig method, and I give two examples illustrating how a person will … Continue reading →

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Finished the Heisig method! 2042 Kanji!

Posted on July 27, 2011 by marcusbird

The monstrous goal  has been reached! After a year and a half (give or take a few months : p ) I’ve finally completed all 2,042 Kanji for the Heisig method! I will admit I kind of sped through the … Continue reading →

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Seeing the light in the Monster

Posted on July 26, 2011 by marcusbird

One thing many students of Japanese greatly desire to do is be able to play Japanese video games. Today I felt like I took a step closer towards that goal. When I was living in Tokyo, I would go to … Continue reading →

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Remember Heisig with Art!

Posted on July 23, 2011 by marcusbird

What I love about language learning, or any kind of learning, is that you always find people doing similar things to you. I stumbled upon a cool video (at the bottom of this post) of a young lady explaining the … Continue reading →

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Taking a stab at Japanese translation

Posted on July 23, 2011 by marcusbird

Greetings everyone. I had a very cool time today fiddling with some Japanese translation so I thought i’d jot down a few bits about it. My regular day to day currently involves getting all the bells and whistles setup to … Continue reading →

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