Update: 2012/11/7: OK, so it’s broken again…I suspect due to a Chrome upgrade….the links to them dictionaries down there are still useful though! 🙂 [Update 2012/3/10: K, it totally works now. I’d…yeah…I goofed up. The source code was fine, but…yeah…I copied the wrong…Anyway, it works now! 😀 ] Hey there, you Lazy Hanzi aficionados! Here is…
Decremental Timebox → Real Time Conversion Table
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 18 of 26 in the series Timeboxing TrilogyFor your referential pleasure, I made this little conversion table. That time sure adds up! Decremental Timebox → Real (=Full) Time Conversion Table (Key assumption: 1 minute decrement, so 4 minutes → 4 minutes + 3 minutes + 2 minutes + 1 minute) 1…
What’s Your Ideal Teacher Like, Khatz?
by khatzumoto
Me: Nice schoolteachers are like nice prison wardens. They can smile and care all they want, and it’s an improvement, but it’s still prison. HackingChinese @ajatt What’s your ideal teacher like? It’s not as if we (I’m I a teacher) can change the system even if we want to. We can smile, though. No, you’re…
Do “Wide Standards” Apply To Immersion?: High Achievement Despite Low=Wide Standards
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series Wide Standardse_dub_kendo on “Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards”: Khatz, just to clarify, this applies to the “study aspect” like doing SRS reps, etc, but given any 86,400 second period one should be striving to be in a Japanized environment for as many of…
Don’t Have High Standards, Have Wide Standards
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Wide StandardsLo! And Chagami sayeth: It doesn’t matter how many kanji you do a day/how many sentences you’re learning/how much vocab you’re picking up, all that matters is that progress is being made. I know that sometimes it can feel like we’re lowering our standards by just…
Language Is Murder
by khatzumoto
Learning a language is like committing murder. Although all forms of murder basically amount to suffocation, immolation, stabbing (direct organ and tissue damage) or “overwhelming the immune response”, there are an infinite number of variations within that. So to say “only method X works!”, “method X is the correct way” is like saying “human beings…