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Tag Archives: learning observation
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
My Manga #1 – Point in time
My Manga ＃1 Point in Time – From Death Note. Okay, so this is an observation from Death Note about point in time. I am not a grammar beast yet, but I find that trying to read through these sentences … Continue reading
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Tagged All Japanese All the Time, death note, death note manga, does the heisig method work, Heisig Method, heisig to reading, Heisig tricks, learning Japanese, learning Japanese in context, learning observation, learning with manga, living in Japan, marcus bird, marcus bird tv, my manga, Remembering the Kanji, RTK1, The Heisig Method
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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
Posted in learning Japanese, Remembering the Kanji
Tagged AJATT method, All Japanese All the Time, android, Canadian learning Japanese, context manipulation, does the heisig method work, gary vaynerchuck, Heisig Method, heisig to reading, jamaican in japan, Jamaican learning Japanese, japanese advertisments, learning observation, marcus bird, The Heisig Method
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1700 Kanji and the Skimming Hypothesis
So I’m finally almost done with Heisig. I’ve been doing about 50 to 100 Kanji per day and I am almost there. A few key things I have noted recently. I mentioned in a previous post that I was shedding … Continue reading
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
Posted in motivation, Remembering the Kanji, Uncategorized
Tagged AJATT, AJATT method, All Japanese All the Time, does the heisig method work, Heisig Method, heisig to reading, Heisig tricks, learning Japanese, learning observation, learning with rosetta stone, living in Japan, marcus bird, marcus bird tv, reading with heisig, Remembering the Kanji, RTK1
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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
Itching to Finish
」 I haven’t posted in a little while, because the last few weeks have been pretty fuzzy. One day, I’ll put it in a book…either way, I must say that I’m really starting to “get” Heisig and I’m doing my … Continue reading
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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Tagged AJATT method, All Japanese All the Time, does the heisig method work, heisig to reading, Heisig tricks, jamaican in japan, Jamaican learning Japanese, learning Japanese, learning observation, living in Japan, marcus bird, marcus bird tv, Remembering the Kanji
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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 Learning Japanese 