ほーらアップしたじゃん？！もう「ホンマに日本語できるのかコノヤロー」とか抜かすなよ！こう見えてもオマエ作るにゃ超時間掛かったぞ。撮影だの変換だのWMMの故障だの。まあ、これからも兀々（こつこつ）投稿しながら向上して参りたい所存ですので、4649お願いしまーす！ Look…ok?…It was late; we were talking; the camera’s on; I have strange quirks and gestures from my childhood (“Mommy loves you! It’s not your fault!”). Then 龍 is all “come on, dawg…I don’t have any make-up on, don’t put me in the video”, so then I cut him out, and there’s no background music…
Grammar Does Not Exist
by khatzumoto
This the second full article I’ve written about grammar (this was the first). Hopefully I won’t repeat myself :D. When I tell people how I acquire (acquired) Japanese and Cantonese, the first question many immediately ask is: “but what about grammar”?!?! Yeah, what about that… At the end of last year, over the holiday season,…
Book Review: 怨み屋本舗 / URAMIYA HONPO — Revenge By Proxy
by khatzumoto
It’s been a while since the last edition of Khatzumoto’s Book List. Maybe it’ll be a monthly list again, maybe seasonal, maybe just “whenever”. Funnily enough, I’d kind of felt guilty about recommending books to people; I felt like I’d become a “book pusher” of sorts. But, you know what, screw that; it’s not like…
You Don’t Have A Foreign Language Problem, You Have An Adult Literacy Problem
by khatzumoto
This article is super long, so here’s a Cliff’s Notes. There’s a total of 3 parts. Part 1 is a brief history of why people still talk smack about Sinoxenic (kanji-using) languages, leading to Part 2 where we realize that when dealing with any language, Sinoxenic or otherwise, what we are dealing with is not…
Success Story…Kinda: SRS and the Power and Value of Memory
by khatzumoto
An AJATTeer who goes by the nickname AdShap shares his story [edited for spelling, punctuation and privacy…you know hwo it is wtih email]: I’ve been using your methods for the past year and a half to learn Japanese, and have been for the past semester at law school. I’m the only student in the school…
Secrets to Smoother SRSing, Part 6: Maintain Only the Baseline/SRS Holidays
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 6 of 11 in the series Secrets to Smoother SRSingThis is part 6 of a multi-part series on smoother SRSing. I don’t know about y’all, but…OK, first of all, I don’t even use “y’all” in actual conversation, so I don’t know why I insisted on writing it just now. Just…bear with…