Success Stories

Success Story: Emotional Context Learning — Using Phrases Correctly Without Actively Learning Them Or Knowing What They Actually Mean

by khatzumoto

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Secrets of Speaking

This entry is part 8 of 12 in the series Secrets of SpeakingAJATTeer Jake C shares this little story of how he learned how to use certain Japanese words and phrases before he knew what they actually (literally) meant, because he was aware of their emotional content. I have had similar experiences myself in both…

by khatzumoto

“Human intelligence is among the most fragile things in nature. It doesn’t take much to distract it, suppress it, or even annihilate it.” ~ Neil Postman Jack shares his perspective, reached through bitter experience, on what he quite elegantly calls “The Inverse Relationship Between AJATT Pwnage and Classroom Winnage”: Hey Khatz, I’ve just finished semester…

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Lou W shares his success story, where he reports that’s he’s feeling the effects of AJATT techniques after just two weeks. I’m as pleasantly shocked as he is 😛 . Don’t take my word for it. Listen to him 😉 : I was a few chapters into my Minna No Nihongo advanced textbook and I…

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By Doviende of LanguageFixation: The thing that did the most for my German, was watching all 7 seasons of Star Trek: Deep Space 9 dubbed in German. People told me it was trash, and it wasn’t a real German TV show so it wouldn’t help, and all sorts of other bunk. It was dubbed in…

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Koffegirl, a new AJATTeer, shares her success story in this email: So I am in the beginning of my journey towards learning Japanese…and I’m getting so much pure enjoyment out of it that I almost feel guilty. I am at the kanji learning stage and I’m finding it fun and relaxing. Am I crazy? I…

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Drewskie sent me this really cool email the autre jour. You may know him from comments 😀 , being as it is that he is incredibly good-looking and has wonderful taste in blogs. Here he is in his own words (links and emphasis added by me): [勝]元先輩、[Khatzumoto-sempai] Maybe it’s that I finally found some really…