This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeOK, so these are the HABU Yoshiharu books we’re going to cover: The Power of Intuition (ちょっかんりょく) [直感力 (PHP新書) | 羽生 善治 |本 | 通販 | Amazon] The Power of Making Decisions (けつだんりょく）[決断力 (角川oneテーマ21) |…
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What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and Life
by khatzumoto
This entry is part of 10 in the series What Shogi [Japanese Chess] Can Teach You About Languages, Learning and LifeSo, as you probably already know, all chess originated in, like, India. The Persian variant became Western (international) chess. There’s a bunch of regional variants; there’s a Chinese variant, an Ethiopian variant, as well as…
What Can the French Revolution and Austrian Economics Teach You About Learning Japanese?
by khatzumoto
So, I’ve been reading about politics and history lately. Voltaire’s Bastards, Amaury de Riencourt, David Deutsch (The Beginning of Infinity), stuff like that. And I came upon something of a…how can I put this… It’s fashionable — and even justifiable — to roundly dismiss many of the heroes and products of the English-speaking world. Stop…
Read More Or Die — ReadMOD/多読, A Foreign Language Extensive Reading Contest (2014 Edition)
by khatzumoto
Hello fellow language learners, I am LordSilent, an AJATTeer who participated in the original “International L2 Reading Contest” and was surprised by the positive boost that reading had on his Japanese in all areas, not just reading. Inspired by this, I kept reading and decided to create what is now known as ReadMOD (Read More…
AJATT Best of 2013
by khatzumoto
The archive has been scoured, the votes have been tallied and the verdict is in! Some were chosen by popularity, some based on my own personal biases, others using a combination of both, and they’re all summarized here for you to enjoy. Just like in 2011, some months (particularly August and September) had stronger showings…
What Golf Can Teach You About Getting Used to Languages
by khatzumoto
“The real reason why human beings play sports is to find out how to use our brains.” TOMABECHI Hideto This past summer, I tried a bunch of stuff. Including golf. All those “Cousin Tiger” jokes I used to tell in high school would appear to have finally come home to roost (inside joke…long story…not funny…