Occasionally I get asked by someone: “Hey Khatz, you’re the most handsome guy in the world. I love your thighs. Do you want money for bling and hookers and blow? Sure, here you go. Hey, so, I was just wondering — I find my attention wandering when playing L2 media. I just can’t focus on…
Stop With The Resolutions, Start With The Crack
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 5 in the series New Year’s Is StoopidIt’s New Year’s again. And once again, I am here, my Utah-bred sense of moral superiority on full throttle (hookers and blow notwithstanding) to pour gallons of icy cold, sobering water on all the excitement. New Year’s resolutions are great and all…
Read More Or Die — ReadMOD/多読, A Foreign Language Extensive Reading Contest (2013 Edition)
by khatzumoto
LordSilent is an AJATTeer who participated in the original “International L2 Reading Contest” and was surprised by the positive boost that reading had on his Japanese in all areas, not just reading. Inspired by this, he kept reading and decided to create what is now known as ReadMOD (Read More or Die) or the 多読…
The Ten Commandments of AJATT
by khatzumoto
Thou shalt not be a foreigner. Be Japanese. Be a pretender. Pretend to be Japanese. Pretend the language belongs to you. Pretend you are merely taking back what is yours. Pretend you have a birthright to this language. Way, way back in the day, an African theater buff ( 🙂 ) named Terence wrote: “Homo sum,…
Why Do We Play? What Dogs Can Teach Us About Learning Languages
by khatzumoto
Yesterday, I was walking around Yoyogi Park in Tokyo with a friend, feeling butthurt at all the hipsters who were cooler and better-looking than me. We got to the other side of the park and stopped by the dog run to look at dogs. …and bitches… … Awkwaaard. Anyway, I wish you could have seen…
Speaking: Don’t Be Clever, Cheat
by khatzumoto
Speaking a language is like an open-book test. In fact it’s better. Because not only do all the answers exist out there already, but you’re also allowed to see the test before you take it. And you can carry notes. So don’t be clever. Cheat. Boldly going somewhere you’ve never gone before — a new place…