Japanese Bands: The List

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This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Japanese Bands: The List

This entry is part 1 of 2 in the series Japanese Bands: The ListLast year, before the good folk at the third-rate hosting company I was using went and deleted this site (oh, I’m not bitter), there was a rather detailed and well-researched article there about music. Anyway, after coming back online, I made some…

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10,000 Sentences: Input Before Output

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@Update: 10,000 Sentences is Dead. Let the MCD Revolution Begin! | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time is.gd/AWLzAv OK…this is embarassing to admit, but: I didn’t invent this method of learning language. A couple of very sharp Poles learning English did. And a very sharp American linguistics professor says they’re right. I merely put…

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Don’t Try to Learn A “Language”

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That’s right. Don’t learn a language. Any language. It can’t be done (except by John Travolta in that movie where he plays the angel — that’s Hollywood for you). So don’t try. Instead, do this: 1. Learn a letter/character 2. Repeat (1) until all basic characters are learnt. That’s 2000 in Japanese; 3000-4000 in Chinese.…

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Japanese Websites

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You know, it’s fine someone telling you “hey, read websites in Japanese”, but then…what websites are cool to go to? What websites indeed. Well, here’s one for starters:やわらか戦車（せん・しゃ）[Softie Tanks], the continuing story of a tank who’s mainly good at…retreating. Somehow, it’s just so…可愛いーーーー（cute). Anyway, enjoy.

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How to Watch the News in Japanese

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“Oh, maybe you can speak conversational Japanese, but the news, that’s impossibe, man. The news is so hard. You’ll never understand the news. Even Japanese people don’t understand the news, man”. I’m allergic to BS, so that type of thing is really hard for me to hear. And even harder to type out. Time for…

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