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Tag Archives: marcus bird
Feeling better about Japanese: Give yourself some props
Greetings. For those of you who’ve really poured through my blog posts, you know only too well how i’ve tried to balance my desire to learn and deconstruct my Japanese learning, while at the same time keep a balanced sense … Continue reading
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
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
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
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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Resting in Japanese
After another day where my intense Anki regime pretty much wiped me out, I realized that there is a serious question of balance and energy that goes into really pushing to study Japanese. When we talk about creating an immersive … Continue reading
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JLJ 6: Tackling big Kanji (part 3 of 3 for transitioning from Heisig)
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
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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