This entry is part 4 of 5 in the series New Year’s Is StoopidAdults are freaking crazy. “Oh snap, playa! The counter on number of times the Earth has revolved around the Sun since Arbitrarily Decided Religious Event X has changed. Let’s get drunk and make promises to ourselves that we’re not going to keep.”…
AJATT Best of 2011
by khatzumoto
Technically, this isn’t so much the best of 2011 as it is the best of each month in 2011. August actually had a bunch of good stuff, but each month only gets one spot, so…yeah. I like to start my posts on a buzzkill 😛 . OK, here we go! January Stop Trying Hard. Try…
From the Mouths of SilverSpoon Babes…
by khatzumoto
Chris P. (Current SilverSpooner) “Silverspoon has done more to get me learning Japanese again than anything else I have tried in the last 8 years and honestly works a lot better than any of the classes I took in high school or college.” tokyostyle (Current SilverSpooner): “…people paying for SS don’t consider it a significant…
The Difference Between AJATT and School
by khatzumoto
School teaches you how to be a commentator: “Charles Barkley, taking it down the center with a strong GODAN VERB in abrupt-plain form, switches it up to an imperative and he CONJUGAAAAAAAAAAATES!!!”. With AJATT, your body learns to play the sport.
There Is Nothing To Believe In
by khatzumoto
In the game of getting used to a language… Try not to have opinions. Opinions are for politicians and voters. Try not to have beliefs. Beliefs are for religions. You’re an engineer. You’re a tinkerer. Tink. Tink. Tink. You have tools. You use tools to construct inevitable fluency — engineered inevitability. There is nothing to…
The Three Laws of Language Acquisition, version 4.0
by khatzumoto
0. Zeroth Law: Compare yourself only to yourself. And to newborn babies. 1. The Prime Directive: Have fun. 2. The Promise: Show up. 3. The Triple Path: Don’t learn: get used to. Don’t improve: suck less. Don’t binge: nibble often.