“The reality is that you don’t have to do anything else but plug in. You plug in, listen, and your brain will take care of the learning process…your job: find input. Your brain’s job: figure it out.” Chagami Do you have trouble finding engaging L2 content? Stuff to read and watch and listen to? Do…
Major Human Error / AJATT Customer Service Backlog
by khatzumoto
Hey gang, This is just a little note to let you know that it’s just come to my attention that we’re experiencing a major, catastrophic human failure in the AJATT Customer Service system (read: Veronica in hospital), so a lot of emails have been left hanging. This is about the third time this year that…
[Immersion] Reading Tip: Tear Up The Book If You Love Your Mind
by khatzumoto
Tommy, a handsome AJATTeer, shares this reading tip: Hi [Khatz you are the most handsome being in the Galaxy. How do you stay so young, thin and pretty? Your hair has so much volume and shine, and your skin, omigosh, so soft! You have the skin of a virgin! What’s that? You…oh. Anyway!]. Just a…
[kb] Kotobank Dictionary Bookmarklet
by khatzumoto
Lately, I’m preferring Kotobank to Goo — better dictionary selection and less visual clutter. So here are two bookmarklets for doing quick lookups there; only tested on FireFox so far. Feel free to post any modifications you make here — share the love and all that 🙂 kb [Kotobank Dictionary Bookmarklet — monolingual] Source code,…
[RANDOKU] Multipass Reading: Be Sloppy the First Ten Times, Because You Can Always Come Back
by khatzumoto
Too many people try to read books in one shot. One sitting (or a handful of long sittings). One long, “Hail Mary” pass. That’s all well and good, except that, since you’re both the quarterback and the receiver in this metaphorical game (in fact, you are an entire, single-person American football team), you very quickly…
Surusu Update: Card/Rep Duplication Issue Resolved (Probably :D )
by khatzumoto
Heya! So, the recent speed increases and extra asynchronous processing in Surusu had caused a sort of “race condition” in the system, as a result of which basically you would occasionally get duplicate reps (cards) when you weren’t supposed to — you’d be shown a card that you’d only just repped that ya shoulda been…