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By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 19:29:15 +0000

And along the same lines, my personal favourite, listen to your target language while you’re doing something else completely. You don’t even need to concentrate – which means you’re down to 0 minutes of effort. But the habit you’re creating is worth infinitely more.

By: Seth G

Seth G — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:09:51 +0000

Nevermind. Cantodict’s parser to the rescue. For everybody else, it’s like “Are you freakin’ kidding me?”

By: あんど

あんど — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:07:32 +0000

Bahahaha, I just looked at the URL.

By: Seth G

Seth G — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 17:01:37 +0000

What does the pope picture say? 😛 Don’t… speak… Chinese 😛

By: Vlog #15 Study Hacks: Leveraging Boredom and Laziness « unlikelysquiggle

Vlog #15 Study Hacks: Leveraging Boredom and Laziness « unlikelysquiggle — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 07:16:09 +0000

[…] more appealing or decide that you don’t really care enough about this thing to EVER do it. As Khatzumoto would say, “You still need help, you’re just not […]

By: Mendes

Mendes — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 15:17:35 +0000

Thank you for posting this. You've always written about taking things in our own rhythm, but somehow I never applied that to my life. When I was doing my schedule, it was always something like: ''2 hours of this'' plus ''2 hours of that''. In the end, I feel overwhelmed just by looking at the schedule and knowing I have to do a task for 2 hours; by the end of the day, I did almost nothing at all. Yesterday I read this post, and decided not to demand so much of myself. So instead of writing ''2 hours'', I wrote ''15 minutes'' for each task. When I was doing my reps, I looked up to see the time and 3 hours had passed! I started the task, knowing it was easy to do, and then I got so much into it, that time just went by without me noticing it. ^_^ Thank you so much!

By: Satoshi

Satoshi — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:47:24 +0000

Could be cultural (I’m Brazillian) or personal (I like fruits and my mom didn’t buy them that often when I was a child), but I generally eat apples and tomatoes whole.

Yet, doesn’t really matter, just had to say it.

By: Theo

Theo — Tue, 10 Aug 2010 02:32:15 +0000

I agree with Maya, perfect timing Khatz… dude, u know what I did? I start over in small pieces… I was kinda freaking to do so much reps then I said f**ck, then I deleted (I’m sentence-picking time… no more “new” kanjis, just old ones) and I started over my kanjis deck with lazy mod… my real problem is that I still have a lack of creativity to find good sentences/expressions whatever i do… anyway, I’ll find a way…

By: yuzuru

yuzuru — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:27:22 +0000

I remember seeing that tweet about doing half and a** now and half an a** later.. I think I cried due to laughter. It’s so true though. haha

By: Greg Boschen

Greg Boschen — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:39:46 +0000

Beautifully put! I nudge myself along each day. I’m finding new areas of my life that I can introduce something in japanese. Mostly they are little things. I’ve given myself permission to fail, and take great pleasure in my successes (as well as, the success of others). No sweat and having more and more fun!!!

By: Maya

Maya — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 20:18:12 +0000

This post couldn’t have come at a better time.

A few days ago, I started noticing that I was dreading doing kanji. Even though I’m only doing 15-20 per day, it felt like a lot to do them all (along with 40-60 reps of old kanji) all in one go. I decided to try breaking it down into chunks of 5-10 kanji at a time… at first I didn’t even want to bother because, well, “5 kanji is nothing.”

Of course, that nothingness is what makes it feasible. Case in point: today I’ve learned 40 new kanji and have already gone through 50 reps, and will probably do 20-30 more reps later on.

‘Sides, breaking stuff into tiny chunks makes it easier to fit into your schedule, no matter what your schedule looks like. Not everyone can afford to sit down and study for an hour straight, but most people can afford to sit down and study for 5-15mins at a time, a few times per day.