The problem with learning an ancestral or “heritage” language is that it takes just as much effort as learning any other language, except that you get no credit whatsoever for doing it well (and it’s happily assumed that you basically got it “for free”, effortless, in a native or semi-native childhood environment), only derision for…
AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-06-01
by khatzumoto
"涙に濡れても笑顔枯れても 怖がる事はないよ僕らは弱い生き物なんだから 手を取り合おう" t.co/7GX8kU6MqE 16:00:06 Telling yourself to do something hard is the same thing as telling yourself to do nothing at all. t.co/ndAUhpK0Ot 18:00:15 Stop kidding yourself. You’re not gonna do that hard thing. So do something easy instead. t.co/BVK2wooXwV #immersion #SRS 20:00:11 "it’s so much easier to do something when it’s fun" t.co/8ooOZC8GoY…
Don’t Debate: Experiment
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 9 of 10 in the series Social Resistance“…the yeoman work in any science…is done by the experimentalist, who must keep the theoreticians honest.” ~ Michio Kaku Every so often, perhaps twice a year or so, some kid comes up to language bloggers like me and Ramses and Benny and tries to…
AJATT Twitter Tweets for Week of 2013-05-25
by khatzumoto
"藏身之所(DVD9)演員: 丹澤爾•華盛頓 (Denzel Washington), 瑞安•雷諾茲 (Ryan Reynolds) " t.co/xhUTYFMdma 16:00:40 It's not hard. You just don't know an easy way. Yet. 18:00:16 You don't get what you put in. You get either a lot more or a lot less, but either way, input of some kind must precedes output. #8020 20:00:14 "じゃあ學校って、なんのためにあるのですか？それの答えは、安い賃金で文句も言わずに長時間働く、使い捨ての奴隷労働者を作るためです。" t.co/1DvgP1C2Uj 22:00:14 義務教育は従順な消費者や労働者を作る装置か？:…
Getting There Is Also Your Life
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 9 of 14 in the series Intermediate AngstThe journey of getting used to a language is so psychologically long that it can’t merely be a means to an end. It must become an end in itself. It must become its own joy, its own reward. And this perspective, this mental state,…
Grinding: Focus On What You CAN Do
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 5 of 14 in the series Intermediate AngstOften enough, a comment puts it much better than I ever put it. This was one such situation. Handsome AJATTeer Pingfa brings us back to basics, urging us to focus on what we can do, on what we can control, on our point(s) of…