Sentences

Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix It: Part 1

by khatzumoto

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix It

This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series Why The Way We Read Sucks, And How To Fix ItThere’s so much I want to say on this topic. But it would take too long to put it all together, so I’m going to do what we always do here at AJATT — give…

by khatzumoto

Another day, another kid named J.R. (different from the last!), all up in my email: Hey Khatz, Your method when applied to languages like Chinese and Japanese makes perfect sense but I am trying to learn Korean and Finnish. My problem is with Finnish. A Finnish word can have up to 14 cases so do…

by khatzumoto

A funny thing happened on the way to my email: Hey Khatz, I’m currently using my SRS to practice sentences, but I’m having trouble keeping up with the workload. In your recommendations you say you should be able to write (copy out) each sentence. Do you recommend copying out the sentence every time it shows…

by khatzumoto

[Update 2011/07/30@0917 JST: The old transcript site died, but a new one has been found by enterprising AJATTeers! Right here: 攻殻機動隊関連 : 攻殻機動隊 : CMSB. Also, as a precaution against deletion (domestic Japanese site setup and maintenance prices are about ten times higher than the US, leading to high website attrition), there’s a mirror of this…

by khatzumoto

I know I’ve written on this topic before. FORGET WHAT I SAID. That explanation sucked; it was far too complicated. Just do this. This is all you need to do to smoothly make the transition to monolingual dictionaries. Are you ready? OK. Here it comes: Look up definitions of words you already know. You heard…

by khatzumoto

This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Secrets to Smoother SRSing

This entry is part 9 of 11 in the series Secrets to Smoother SRSingFirst of all, an admission of guilt. I have misled you. In some of my SRS item examples, I have shown some reeeeeeeearry long sentences. Wait, hold on, Kung Fu Hustle is on, and its the final fight against the Axe Gang…