May 2008 has been Major Burn Out Month. I discovered my problem, however - it wasn’t burnout from Japanese, rather it was a burnout from University. I will definitely be making a post on the pros and cons of learning a language in the class room.
That being said, I tried to maintain my Japanese [...]
One goal for many learning Japanese is to be able to enjoy manga in it's original language. It is one of my goals as well. I have quite a few manga in Japanese, collected from many places, such as YesAsia.com, I have mostly used these as motivation tools - "look at these manga, I will read them!!"
We are well into April now, so it’s time for a March 2008 update on my Japanese progress.
On the 18th of March I started up a log of how many hours I watch Japanese tv/movies. I record what I watched and whether I was watching with subs, without, or it was just on as [...]
Remembering the Kanji, a book by James W. Heisig, is just one of the many methods I use to… well, remember the Kanji.
I will talk about other methods some other time, but for now, let’s just talk about this method. I think it is fantastic. There are, however, some things I don’t agree with, [...]
Monday, June 2, 2008
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