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Housekeeping Friday

by khatzumoto

Hello. Comment Responses Ehhh, um…because of all the projects running recently (Chinese, Hanzi Mnemonics), I’ve decided to perform all comment and email responses on Fridays from now on. It’s an experiment in efficiency. So if it seems like it’s taking long to get back to you, fear not! You’re just the victim of a capricious…

by khatzumoto

あけおめことよろ (Akeome kotoyoro). Drs. Heisig and Richardson already have one of these going, but just for the heck of it, here are some free Hanzi Mnemonics anyway. The project will take some time to reach completion, but I’ll keep plugging away at it. The eventual goal is 10,000 characters (if the demand is there…4000+ is…

by khatzumoto

OK, so…let’s make this one short and sweet. Asking questions is one of the most important things you can do in a language. You have to know how to ask questions in a variety of ways, depending on the social situation, the amount of knowledge you have, whether or not you give the answerer “response…

by khatzumoto

I can read your mind. “Oh my gosh, I only did X reps today!”. “Oh my gosh, more sentences, more sentences”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t even know how to order tempura yet!”. “Oh my gosh, I don’t know all the varieties of ramen yet”. Chill. The heck. Out. “Oh, Deity! Japanese has N thousand…

by khatzumoto

This another question/comment where the response grew really long. Here goes: Hey Khatz A quick question when you get back from your break. When I started using my SRS, I entered the English sentence in the question field and the Japanese translation in the answer field. But after reading your method on this site, I…

by khatzumoto

Hello! So…there are a lot of features that need adding on KhatzuMemo, and it’s time at least some of them got added. My time management skills at this point are still at the level of “do one thing at a time” [which, ironically, is about the same level they were at 3 years ago when…