- Anything you can do is good enough. Anything is better than nothing. Everything has to start somewhere. #
- お魚料理番組を見て「やっぱりＤＨＡだね」と突っ込みたくなる衝動を抑える、自己裁量屋の勝元 #
- ドラゴン桜 (テレビドラマ) – Wikipedia bit.ly/cVaM1B #
- 「人生でもっとも大切なことは利益を活用することではない。それならバカにだってできる。真に重要なことは、損失から利益を生み出すことだ。」
レモンを手に入れたらレモネードをつくれ
「道は開ける(D・カーネギー)」17章 # - Many of us don't value small actions, small choices, small games. Yet we wonder how big results come about. #
- Karen Lee @ UCLA very kindly interviewed me a few weeks ago.
Pacific Ties / Winter 2010 Issue bit.ly/asrh7n # - "『心が変われば、態度が変わる。
態度が変われば、行動が変わる。
行動が変われば、習慣が変わる。
習慣が変われば、人格が変わる。
人格が変われば、運命が変わる。
運命が変われば、人生が変わる』
" bit.ly/9JivqG # - "positive thinking and confidence improves performance. In anything. " bit.ly/a44hWy #
- Don't treat yourself like a bastard stepchild in your L2: you have the right to consume native materials right from day one. #
- 『「おい！貴様、名前は？」「佢想知你嘅名」「我祇不過係一個中國人」「彼は、葉問（ﾖｳﾓﾝ）です！」』 #
- So-called "immersion" is not a technique for learning languages. It is the reason. #
- Don't over-control. Release your death grip on your L2. Give it slack to flow, grow and morph organically. #
- "Work hard at the easy" bit.ly/bqR6D9 #
- Wholesale, cynical rejection of certain people/ideas. Wholesale, cultlike acceptance of the same. These are just two sides of the same coin. #
- Total, cultlike acceptance of certain ideas happens because total, cynical rejection neglects the middle ground of partial correctness. #
- Don't compare yourself to other people. Compare yourself to previous versions of yourself. #
- Plug: Just 1 week left to get your hands on "My First Storybook" @ the 25% off pre-order price 😀
bit.ly/ajBBVQ # - "Chinese Post – Open letter to the Chinese language » ChinesePod" bit.ly/crRCme #
- People who accept something totally are basically the same as those who reject it totally. Both sides are deathly afraid of being wrong. #
- 従兄弟同士っていいね（＾＾） #
- YouTube – Bonnie Pink 「Do you Crash?」
bit.ly/dmsEMl # - When you're marching in the 軍隊 and you feel something 可笑しい、下痢！下痢！When you're 泳ぐing in the プール and you feel something クール、下痢！下痢！ #
- It's kind of annoying when you find a great quote, but the person who said it is actually Shady S. McShadson, Sr. #
- Try to keep your panties dry, lads. It's the full #Cantonese #movie #script for Chow's "God of Cookery"!
周星馳-食神 (粵語劇本) bit.ly/9SBddQ # - Other options for 食神/God of Cookery 地獄嚟嘅使者 – Google 搜尋 bit.ly/aYvlqm #Cantonese #movie #script #
- Graduate from "ghetto pride" — pride in things that are actually shite. Having a foreign accent in your L2 is not part of your "identity". #
- "the only way to master [Chinese pronunciation] is by getting as much quality aural input as possible." bit.ly/dDhDHO #
- YouTube – 前田敦子、水着はキッズ用！？ bit.ly/bCJroD #
- App idea: a program that recursively breaks a kanji up into its components. So, for example, 哈→（口、合）→（∅、人・一・口） #
- @humanelament氏、@nac_est氏! ちわーっすぅ！早速本題に突入。二人とも最早オイラより日本語が上手いぞ。正に「青は藍より出でて藍より青し」って奴だ。今度時間あったらサクセスストーリーってか、AJATT体験談、書いてくれない？発展途上の後輩達が超喜ぶから（＾＾） #
- YouTube
– 周杰倫-爺爺泡的茶KTV
bit.ly/cGeAEq # - 10 beautiful Tokyo time-lapses | NihongoUp bit.ly/bDofY6 #
- A Japanese personal development DVD-book in 関西弁!…I dunno, *I* think that's cool. 成功するにはどないしたらええねん？」 夢を絶対に実現させる方法 原田隆史 bit.ly/drON76 #
- @JermaineJustice You're right. I love how 仲間由紀恵 sounds in English 😀 . Really the issue isn't the accent but the "value judgment". in reply to JermaineJustice #
- @JermaineJustice Coz, like, Japanese kids get made fun of for having English that sounds "too good" – as if being incomprehensible were cool in reply to JermaineJustice #
- As books like this go, the phrases in this book are *really* natural both ways 😀 bit.ly/cIh7Ty #
- 「騙されたと思って」 – Google 検索 bit.ly/9vapyL #
- Zhongwen.com: The website/book that helped complete my kanji legend (does that even make sense :D?) bit.ly/c2Jqwd #
- When it comes to learning languages, pick and choose ideas. You don't have to eat everything that's on the plate of ideas. #
- YouTube
– 【ビデオカメラ】SONY HDR-CX550V
bit.ly/du5cmg # - No one out there has The Right And Correct Method for you. But lots of people have lots of cool little pieces you can use. #
- @Birgens すればgoodのにね（＾＾） in reply to Birgens #
- It's not so much that gaijin are overreacting, they're just so lonely and emotionally fragile (心細い) that everything feels bigger than it is? #
- YouTube
– Chandni Chowk to China Rap
bit.ly/amAT6k # - YouTube – [KTV Tube] 周杰倫-霍元甲 bit.ly/bYMSqy #
- ★ ノンストップチューブ 【 NonstopTUBE 】 – YouTube連続再生 – Automatic continuous playing of J-POP YouTube Video bit.ly/bTswYM #
- "Unfortunately, “you should” is often interpreted as “you must”…because that’s how it was…in school." bit.ly/99dcXP #
- [Thanks to NM for the link!] YouTube
– 24: I am Jack Bauer (subtitled Japanese commercial)
bit.ly/9TUppt # - Say yes to your L2. Say no to boring stuff in your L2. #
- Deleting boring L2 stuff is like taking off tight shoes: you realize that it wasn't Life that you hated, it was just…those shoes #
- @Chisa718 米国版のアマゾンなら有るらしい・・・で す・・・が bit.ly/9itC1V in reply to Chisa718 #
- YouTube
– 周杰倫-四面楚歌
bit.ly/bO3EYR # - F1とIndyの違い – Google 搜尋 bit.ly/a1GUFt The difference between F1 and Indy #Japanese #
- AJATT comments should be up again now 😀 @claudiofreitas @FlipKi #
- @sevarg I may be 完全に wrong but it just seems like a very normal word that got hyped up back in the day by non-日本語-speaking "Japan experts" in reply to sevarg #
- @sevarg Kind of like when business authors in Japan put out books with 「クリティカルシンキング」 in the title like it's the BIGGEST DISCOVERY EVER!!! 😀 in reply to sevarg #
- @sevarg If we're going to go down that road, I might as well write a book about 坂本龍馬 while I'm at it 🙂 Maybe I'm just being too cynical 😀 in reply to sevarg #
- Language skill is a plant. Water it. Feed it. It needs your attention no matter how big or small it is. #
- Forget about the Japanese you "need" to do today. Just to the Japanese you can do right now. #Immersion #Contact #
- "it’s so much easier to just have fun and learn Japanese as a byproduct." Matt-le-kat bit.ly/aL44QO #
- SRS Precedence Rules act as a sort of filter for all existing and would-be cards. "Bad" cards get destroyed, "good" cards remain. #
- YouTube
– HI-D – Girlfriends feat. ZEEBRA
bit.ly/9Y64PD # - Keith's Voice on Extreme Language Learning: watching TV really helps! bit.ly/9NHSJU #
- "If you live in Japan, turn on the tv. Don’t turn it off. " bit.ly/bHCGhW #
- 「練習・・・それ自身を目的に楽しんでやれるかが重要になってくる。」
『達人のサイエンス』／ジョージ・レナード-人は感情の生き物だ！ bit.ly/5HVhfg # - RT @irishpolyglot Why learning a language is like learning a musical instrument bit.ly/bzxxkZ #
- Language learning: Myths and facts | Antimoon.com bit.ly/d9FDl3 #
- Input – getting English into your head | Antimoon.com bit.ly/cyOG94 #
- Chinese | Antimoon.com bit.ly/aCfnf3 #
- 「飲み込んで・・・ギザギザした錠剤・・・気持ちいいやろう？腹の中に・・・・煙が消えるのを待ってみろ～。」#impromptu #song #translation #
- George Orwell – Good Bad Books – Essay bit.ly/b0q8Kn #
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