Books

The Now Habit: Language Acquisition as a Long-Term Project

by khatzumoto

Throughout the time this blook has been running, there has been plenty of what might be called “personal developmenty” or “motivationy” content. And there’s good reason for that. People are failing to learn languages for two basic reasons. For one thing, their methods suck. But even more fundamentally, their entire state of mind (confidence/lack thereof)…

by khatzumoto

[Update: The people have spoken! In addition to Amazon.jp links, alternative purchase links to YesAsia have been added where available! These may be useful to those outside of Japan, since YesAsia offer free worldwide shipping. Sometimes the markup makes it so that it evens out, but at other times it is a better deal for…

by khatzumoto

Hello [I am Lothar of the Hill People]! And welcome to the 0th edition of what many people are calling “The Oprah’s Book Club of the Internet, but without the charm, influence or relevance, and mostly in Japanese anyway…”. A lot of people have asked me for book recommendations. And I struggle with this. On…

by khatzumoto

OK, so I’ve been collecting links for another big post of website recommmendations, but that’s just gonna have to wait. I mean, it’s just gonna-have-to-wait. Because I have found the goods that you need so badly. At least, the goods I needed when I was in the early stages of acquiring Japanese. Here they are:…

by khatzumoto

So…A lot of people come up to me and ask “Hey, Khatzumoto-sensei [yeah, they call me that, you know…], what manga are good for beginners? What manga should I read to get me started?” And you know what? I tell them Doraemon because that just seems like the right answer, the 正解. I mean, it’s…

by khatzumoto

Let’s keep this one short. Every so often in the history of humankind, a book comes along that will forever change us. Or not, I don’t know. But really, every few weeks or so, I find a book that is just so perfect that it’s as if it was written just for me to read…