For your happy perusal, here’s a success story from a reader who goes by her Chinese name, Plum Ocean — I mean, 李洋. Here are her words, digitally remastered in super ultra high definition wide screen Dolby 10.2 digital surround text: Dear Khatzumoto, I really want to thank you for writing your blog! [Khatzumoto: Yeah!]…
Yearly Archives: 2008
Kanji File
by khatzumoto
Update (2011/05/31): This file has been taken down at the polite request of the copyright holder. But fear not! You can use the data over at Reviewing the Kanji bit.ly/cE0wky, since those do comply with the RTK publisher’s stipulations 😀 . I will also be uploading a kosher file at some unspecified later date. A lot…
How To Really Make the Transition to Monolingual Dictionaries
by khatzumoto
I know I’ve written on this topic before. FORGET WHAT I SAID. That explanation sucked; it was far too complicated. Just do this. This is all you need to do to smoothly make the transition to monolingual dictionaries. Are you ready? OK. Here it comes: Look up definitions of words you already know. You heard…
How To Accomplish Great Things: Small Victories, Winnable Games
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 7 of 10 in the series What It Takes to Be GreatDon’t Believe the Hype A lot of people say a lot of nice things about me on this site. I’ve been called “insane” (I consider this a compliment), strong-willed, full of “willpower”, “obsessed”, determined, “Naruto-like”, even a “genius”. Sometimes it…
KhatzuMemo Update: Quicker, Leaner
by khatzumoto
So, over at LearnJapaneseToday, KhatzuMemo, the world’s favorite SRS, won the dubious honor of a less-than-stellar review. The shame! Frankly, though, what they said was true. Load times were slow and the ad was annoying…I mean, there really shouldn’t be an ad there until you’re getting more value from it. So, I’ve made some quick…
Japanese Websites: Street Signs
by khatzumoto
Hey, so, like, yeah. I’ve been doing lots of stuff with images lately. And then I figured, hey — you might want to do that, too. So here are some links to Japanese websites…full of images (and text.) This site is a collection of pictures of building and street signs (plus Google search results for…