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The Ideal Situation

This is a blog post that has been coming for some time. As i’ve mentioned many a time before, a key aspect to language learning is definitely motivation. If you don’t have it, the process is nigh impossible. Then I … Continue reading

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Processing the deluge

This is an indirect review of Japanese POd 101 masked under the guise of another concept. Let’s assume you want to learn Japanese and you have never heard a lick of Japanese, or read any Japanese grammar before. You do … Continue reading

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What is Fluency?

I’m writing this post based on reading through various forums where people often ask, “Can I be fluent in Japanese?” to which a myriad of people respond, “That depends on your definition of fluency.” Whenever I read through these forums, … Continue reading

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Falling off the Japanese Wagon

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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One Step before the other?

This is a question that came to my mind after reading through a good bit of the Nihongo Pera Pera site. I tend to like reading information from people who are fluent in Japanese that have strong opinions, and this … Continue reading

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The Japanese balancing act

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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A Japanese conversation

Had to write this post quickly, and also update you guys on my progress. The last two weeks haven’t been the most productive i’ll admit. What I do when I don’t have much time to learn new words is to … Continue reading

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Core 2000 step 5 review 1000 sentences!

Grettings everyone. Hope you enjoyed my latest video on what I called “Hyper Referencing“. If you didn’t see it, please check it out! Okay so as I promised planet earth, I would be doing an extensive almost insane step by … Continue reading

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Video Blog 7: Hyper Referencing

Greetings everyone, in this video blog I chat about the three things I use to have a reasonably solid “reference environment” or way to look up Japanese words, sentences and meanings.

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Monster Hunter update (3 weeks)

Okay, so I decided to pickup Monster Hunter again after doing my Core2000 vocabulary studies for the last three weeks or so, and as predicted, I am able to do a little more. Monster Hunter is a realtime action RPG … Continue reading

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