So, to my pleasant surprise one of the best/my favorite comedy duos in Japan, 爆笑問題/Bakushou Mondai/The Laughter Question/BSMD, do a radio show called 爆笑問題カーボーイ/Bakushou Mondai Cowboy. Unfortunately, radio seems hard to get in Japan, at least in my experience — the signal strength for all stations is set to “super weak sauce”, so…you basically don’t…
Sentence-Picking in Action: Making Lemons Into Lemonade
by khatzumoto
OK, so Momoko told me that a lot of people might have trouble picturing what the sentence-picking process really looks like. And, now that I think about it, I agree with her. So here’s an example of how I went about picking some sentences just now. The example uses Chinese and Japanese, but I’m sure…
How Many Languages? + Abandoning a Language After Bad Experiences
by khatzumoto
Comments are posted, questions are asked, responses get long and become articles. Are you of the school of thought that a person can only learn X languages to complete fluency? Perhaps that was a bad explanation, but I guess would you say that you can use your method multiple times for different languages or would…
Don’t Do The Language, BE The Language
by khatzumoto
I can read your mind. “Oh my gosh, I only did X reps today!”. “Oh my gosh, more sentences, more sentences”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t even know how to order tempura yet!”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t know all the varieties of ramen yet”. Chill. The heck. Out. “Oh, Deity! Japanese has N thousand…
Real Sample Sentences
by khatzumoto
Hey! So, I’ve put up example sentences in “sentence starter packs” before, but, I don’t think any of those were actually sentences that I had personally used before. Just to give you an idea of what life is really like on the streets of my SRS, here are some examples of sentences that I’ve entered…
Does Input REALLY work?
by khatzumoto
This another question/comment where the response grew really long. Here goes: Hey Khatz A quick question when you get back from your break. When I started using my SRS, I entered the English sentence in the question field and the Japanese translation in the answer field. But after reading your method on this site, I…