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AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-04-03

  • TL(タイムライン)とは | Twitterまとめサイト "TL(タイムライン)とは " bit.ly/ar1aqC #
  • Time and attention quite often come in tiny, meaningless-looking slices — not massive, shiny blocks. Use them as such. #
  • 今起きたばかり – Google 搜尋 bit.ly/cy7Sz2 #
  • 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む bit.ly/b5ClLu #
  • @LITMK 門前の小僧習わぬ経を読む bit.ly/b5ClLu 😀 in reply to LITMK #
  • Easy immersion/contact: watch one L2 movie per day. #
  • 「ソニーの設立趣意書は有名ですね。
    飢えていた時代、戦後まもなく創業した会社で、このように綿密にして理想的な企業理念を掲げた創業者の志に畏敬の念を抱かざるをえない。」 bit.ly/cPCwk1 #
  • YouTube to MP3 轉換器 – Video2mp3 bit.ly/cceZXA #
  • "It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off." bit.ly/a0gtcc #
  • Whenever I get frazzled (trying to do too much), I just remember the…SRS Precedence Rules bit.ly/aL44QO 😀 #
  • Americans need to learn depth and sophistication from Japan. Japanese people need to learn ballsiness from America. #
  • YouTube – インナースペース (日本語吹替) 1ー12 bit.ly/cuZfxb #
  • "get used to auto-suggestion…repeat something to yourself so often that it becomes a belief…reasonable or not." bit.ly/bDFbvg #
  • " the belief itself is a propellant towards the actualization of it. " bit.ly/bDFbvg #
  • YouTube – 異常な鼎談 津田大介 前編1/3 bit.ly/bhExOd #
  • 不怕慢 只怕站 #
  • @GoldFibre Well, it's a *great* article 😀 in reply to GoldFibre #
  • A powerful metaphor for language acquisition: "The Power of Exercising Today" bit.ly/cUbEAO #
  • YouTube – 異常な鼎談 高橋洋一 前編1/3 bit.ly/cyGYIZ #
  • メルカトル図法 – Wikipedia bit.ly/cYNbYn #
  • "When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions…He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it" Woodson #
  • YouTube
    – DOUBLE/Rollin' on
    bit.ly/a2vXet #
  • There is no "right" choice. There is *a* choice that appears to be the best given your current time/energy/information resources. #
  • You can't do the right thing retroactively. Just do what you can given the time, energy and knowledge you have here and now. #
  • @LITMK 哦 對唔住!意思即係話:「耳濡目染不學自會」 in reply to LITMK #
  • YouTube – 異常な鼎談 武田邦彦 前編1/3 「水道橋博士×宮崎哲弥×武田邦彦 20100128 地球温暖化問題の真実 」 bit.ly/c2ZNuS #
  • "まゆつば‐もの【眉唾物】
    だまされる心配のあるもの。真偽の確かでないもの。信用できないもの。「その情報は―だ」" bit.ly/ckOq04 #
  • Video in Swahili and Chinese. Three Kenyans, two Chinese people 😀 [YouTube – Ideas on China Africa-Business] bit.ly/bQaewt #
  • @funnyav lol in reply to funnyav #
  • 「なぜ略字(常用漢字)が生まれたか。日本人は黒船をみて、自分たちの知能が劣っている
    のは、表意文字(漢字)を使っているせいだ、西欧のように表音文字(ひらがな、ローマ字)を
    使わないとおいつけない。
    と勘違いしたからです」http://bit.ly/afJzlN #
  • "今の小中学生の漢字力の低下は、間違いなく戦後の文部省の国語改悪の結果でしょうね。 " bit.ly/afJzlN #
  • YouTube
    – Bird – Realize feat. Suiken+Dev Large
    bit.ly/aX7llG #
  • YouTube
    – BONNIE PINK / Thinking of You
    bit.ly/bCY3BM #
  • Yay! I got an audio response over at RhinoSpike! 赤裸的真相http://bit.ly/9F5t1y #
  • YouTube
    – Nitro Microphone Underground – Still Shinin All Day
    bit.ly/aqBFXH #
  • 遊び心のあるPV YouTube
    – Nitro Microphone Underground – Special Force
    bit.ly/9AoB1w #
  • YouTube
    – 異常な鼎談 町山智浩 後編1/3 「水道橋博士×宮崎哲弥×町山智浩 ニュースが伝えないアメリカの姿を語る 20090507 」
    bit.ly/chXo9w #
  • YouTube
    – 異常な鼎談 デーブ・スペクター 前編1/3 bit.ly/djhAyl #
  • YouTube
    – 異常な鼎談 デーブ・スペクター 後編2/3
    "日本のテレビは、
    プロが私生活を見せるか、素人が芸をするかだと
    昔 上岡龍太郎が言っていた。
    デーブも似たような事いってますね。" bit.ly/cGw7HK #
  • @higashi そう?どういう意味で? in reply to higashi #
  • A "right" choice is never one that you "could" or "should" have made: it is always a choice that *can* make right now. #
  • We *need* to be told the obvious things over and over again. Not because they're complex, but because we forget them so easily. #
  • @rhino_spike Idea: you might want to separate out the topolects of Chinese, e.g. Mandarin, Cantonese, Wu, etc. 😀 #
  • If SRS is to language-learning as slicing is bread, then, at the risk of hyperbole, @rhino_spike may well be the best thing since SRS 😀 #
  • Scientific American | Chinese Edition | Blog 科學人部落格 @YLib Blog
    bit.ly/dri4FK #
  • 巫 (sorcery) is one person (人) doing the work (工) of two people (人)…? 😀 #
  • 「最凶女装計画 [DVD]」http://bit.ly/9Kagrz #
  • YouTube
    – 深夜の有明埠頭に謎の巨大生物が上陸!?果たしてその正体は!?
    bit.ly/de6UVR #
  • Are you actually trying to solve the problem, or are you just complaining about the state of reverse time-travel technology? 😀 #
  • YouTube – Rap Japon DJMASTERKEY NITEMARE feat DABO BIGZAM SUIKEN DELI bit.ly/b19Reh #
  • Lyrics for that last song (copy-pastable) 😀 "DJ MASTERKEY feat. DABO, SUIKEN, DELI, BIGZAM – NITEMARE
    " bit.ly/dwqsOg #
  • YouTube – NITRO MICROPHONE UNDERGROUND / LIVE 09 (OFFICIAL) bit.ly/cjxQqG
    Lyrics: bit.ly/bVWlv9 #
  • 女流ラッパー万歳!
    😀 YouTube – 姫 Hime
    Himehajime bit.ly/9SCj7E
    浮き名 Ukina bit.ly/bQkjNO #
  • やっぱり火の狐ことファイアフォックスだね~ #
  • 日系アメリカ人 – Wikipedia "日系アメリカ人" bit.ly/bMN1tr #
  • 「しらしめる」という言葉について教えて下さい。 – Yahoo!知恵袋 "「しらしめる」という言葉は普通に使われているようですが、辞書には載っていない言葉のようです。・・・" bit.ly/a6S6x2 #
  • So what's it going to be? Keep reading and believing in conspiracy theories about Japanese? Or shut up and learn it? #
  • Things that are the shiznit:
    *漢字
    *Rihanna
    *Rihanna doing a Cantonese duet
    *Peppermint tea @rhino_spike
    😀 #
  • You need to be told those obvious things. Repeatedly. Until they change your behavior. Then you will "know" them. #
  • "much of the day we run on auto-pilot…retrain your auto-pilot so that the default [activity] is [your L2]" bit.ly/ddvllP #
  • It's not enough to just "know" the good ideas. One needs to become "brainwashed" by them to the point that behavior is altered. #
  • AJATT mindset in 6 words: "take it easy, but take it". #
  • @rhino_spike have basically invented ADWARLE: asynchronous, distributed, wide-area, reusable language exchange 😀 . #
  • kendo shares a sweet lazy kanji card mod: "[Front] 党 The TEENAGER went to a _______ in the LITTLE HOUSE.
    [Back] Party" bit.ly/98cwJ4 #
  • "He’s in an environment where he just has to communicate. He’s happy. He’s just doing it." bit.ly/dajTXR #
  • "I can read Tolstoy…I don’t think a 3-year-old…could put in 3 years into Russian and learn to read Tolstoy." bit.ly/dajTXR #
  • @rhino_spike: have you guys considered also doing the reverse of the current RS system? i.e. submit audio–>transcribe text? #
  • 切れ長の目 – Google 検索 bit.ly/9LKHQX #
  • "Work consists of whatever a body is obliged to do, and play consists of whatever a body is not obliged to do." bit.ly/dzrZ2d #
  • If stuff isn't getting done, then try specifying numbers: How many? For how long? And if that's no good, then try smaller numbers. #
  • YouTube – Vete A La Versh – Episodio 7: Zumbido Asesino bit.ly/97svFz
    Chinese starts at 1'00" 😀 #
  • Hey kids. AJATT.com is undergoing some behind-the-scenes work right now. Things should be back up within 24 hours. #
  • Update: Service resumed 😀 . Everything at AJATT.com should be back to normal now. Let me know if you have any questions/problems. #
  • "Miss No Good
    Here is Episode 1 of Miss No Good, a Taiwanese drama:"
    bit.ly/b1Kev8 #
  • Update: OK, AJATT.com should *really* be working now. Including the internal links. Let me know how it goes for you 😀 #
  • "if you want to learn and if you are motivated enough on your own, you don’t need the classroom. " bit.ly/dajTXR #
  • 敬語と敬語意識の半世紀(国立国語研究所) "「敬語を経年的にみつめる」" bit.ly/bTKB1B #
  • (笑) "「車に乗って、スピードを上げすぎると、事故を起こす」という関係が頭に入ってないといけません。" bit.ly/cZoulT 学習心理学 : 回避と罰 #
  • "if we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin." bit.ly/bxUT8I #
  • My current audio split settings: 8-second split, 4-second forward overlap; 12 seconds total. #
  • I feel that @rhino_spike in a way is the "missing link" that can take people out of that intermediate slump and to full fluency. #
  • @rhino_spike have basically invented a form of language exchange that is (1) *reusable* and (2) has almost no set-up overhead. #
  • @don_rivers Spoken word audio (and sometimes songs, though I tend to go for longer splits on songs), e.g. articles at @rhino_spike in reply to don_rivers #
  • 漢文を復活させよう "漢字を統一して漢文を復活させるというのは
    おもしろいんじゃないかと思うんですが、
    みなさんはどう思いますか。" bit.ly/bsW6Gc #
  • I'm totally digging kendo's lazy kanji card mod with [kanji + component names] on the front and [meaning & readings] on the back #kanji #SRS #
  • Having only the kanji on the front was biasing me toward "visual brute force" in some cases, which as we all know = 🙁 . #
  • Experiments, experiments, experiments 😀 #
  • @don_rivers SRS. I prefer slightly longer pieces for shuffling (~3m30s) in reply to don_rivers #
  • @Wicketification Dunno. I'll just say that failure to exploit the logic of kanji is what caused ppl frustration & illiteracy. in reply to Wicketification #
  • @e_dub_kendo ん~Don't think so. Not as systematic as Heisig anyway. But it works out because of all the time and reinforcement… in reply to e_dub_kendo #
  • @e_dub_kendo Chinese kids start their kanji in pre-school. So there's your time right there 😀 in reply to e_dub_kendo #
  • @e_dub_kendo In Japan, kids had been dumbed down a bit post-1950s. But there is a guy/org 土屋秀宇(ツチヤヒデヲ) pushing a return to early kanji ed. in reply to e_dub_kendo #
  • @e_dub_kendo …and 立命館 (famous private uni) do full, no-limits kanji & classical texts right from 1st grade at their elementary school. in reply to e_dub_kendo #
  • @don_rivers bit.ly/bSyeLF in reply to don_rivers #
  • Sorry for over-tweeting, everyone! 😀 #
  • 最終絶叫計画 – Wikipedia "『最終絶叫計画』(Scary Movie)" bit.ly/c3AJXy #
  • YouTube – どっきり色々ハプニング bit.ly/ao5vNz #
  • YouTube – 飯島愛スッピンどっきり bit.ly/9eyEiU #
  • @lordsilent I make phrase/sentc cards with parts of the text on the front and ~12秒 of audio on the back. Really brings text to life, esp 中国語 in reply to lordsilent #
  • YouTube – どっきり ~万引き~ bit.ly/cwxslO #
  • YouTube – 勝間和代さんの英語でしゃべらナイト 1/2 bit.ly/cb6g6a #
  • "英語を早く上達する秘密な技 How to Improve Your English FAST!" bit.ly/9LwQQT #

  2 comments for “AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week Of 2010-04-03

  1. rabbit
    April 4, 2010 at 04:06

    thanks for the rhino spike recommendation! … amazing

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