Wan Zafran, kanji hero and reader of this site (also reported to be unbelievably handsome) has completed a series of tutorials on the methods and tools he uses to learn the Japanese language (with more to come, son). Here’s a link to them. www.wanzafran.com/2008/language-learning-japanese/ www.wanzafran.com/2008/language-learning-japanese-part-1/ www.wanzafran.com/2008/language-learning-japanese-part-2/

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OK, for whatever reason I forgot to add these to the last post. BAD Khatzumoto! Here we go: Oh, wait, before we start, wanna here a sad story? I wrote this post out in one go like 3 days ago, and then a mis-directed click caused me to lose it. All of it, son. Desk-slamming…

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So, um…Today, there seemed to have been a little problem with this site. You may have seen an “Internal Server Error”. That issue has now been resolved. I’m not sure what it was exactly, but it may have been my fault (theory # 1: a database query gone wild; theory #2: an act of war…

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Remember this. A language is not actually a skill. It’s not something you can take and “have”. We talk about “acquiring” it, which implies possession, but in fact it cannot be possessed as such. A language is a habit. It is a way of being. So if in doubt about just how to go about…

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[Update 2011/07/29@0129 JST: I humbly retract everything bad I said about CliffsNotes. CliffsNotes rule. There’s no way I was going to read Atlas Shrugged for real: YouTube doesn’t watch itself; get to the point, woman! :P] Legal documents are a wordy morass of redundant crap… …in English. But in Japanese, they’re…fun. No, I mean it. Filled…

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So if you want to read this website but green and orange are starting to bore you, then consider reading it in blue over here. That’s right, folks. Original and plagiarized quite without my permission and proudly in violation of copyright. And it’s all there. But in blue. And sidebar on the left hand side.…

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