Comments on: Cute Girls, Mathematics, Language

By: Why America Doesn’t Win Wars Any More and What (Ironically) That Can Teach You About Learning Languages | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 18 Aug 2019 12:39:45 +0000

[…] strong, smart or otherwise “full of potential” does not exempt you from the laws of our mathematical universe. If anything, it holds you to a higher standard of behavior — pedestrians can walk and use […]

By: Jim

Jim — Sun, 10 Feb 2019 11:51:16 +0000

i+1 bro.

I don’t study Japanese, and have no interest in Japanese. I know what ‘gaijin’ means despite never having looked it up, heard a native using it or seen the word anywhere in a native context.

How? Because i hear Japanese-learning English speakers using it all the time. And so the contexts’ i+1 value allowed me to acquire it.

By: Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:37:15 +0000

[…] native-level speaker and a linguistic foreigner is that the foreigner lacks a critical mass — sheer volume — of auditory L2 […]

By: If Anime Is Bad For Your Japanese, Then Nursery Rhymes Are Bad For Your English | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Thu, 19 Sep 2013 03:37:11 +0000

[…] You can learn things that haven’t been explained to you. Heck, you can learn things without even realizing you’re learning them! Arguably, most of what you learn works this way. 3 Most of your learning is not only incidental, but unconscious. […]

By: Marina

Marina — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 07:02:08 +0000

Hi ! I’m just about to start studying Business&Management and Japanese studies at university and, although I’m a bit biased, I don’t think that studying Japanese in a classroom is so useless. I’ve learnt Chinese this way, sitting in a classroom, although in China, for a year. My level is somewhere between HSK 5 and 6 now, which is pretty good I think. I intend to do the same with Japanese. I love going to class, I love to listen to teachers who know what they are talking about, it’s an environment that stimulates me. I’m looking forward to studying Japanese at university, especially since I’m not going to just study the language, but I will also have classes about Japanese History, literature, culture.. taught by renowned experts (it’s so much better to read a book when you know its author!). I also have a compulsory year in Japan as part of my degree, which I’m sure will be super beneficial language-wise but also awesome to make business contacts and such. That’s another great opportunity I will have thanks to my Japanese major. Now I completely agree that not all Japanese studies graduates are fluent in Japanese and that’s sad, but since we are given many great tools to do so, and with passion, I know for sure that many are indeed fluent. Starting with my own brother..
I discovered this website yesterday and I’m looking forward to learn more. Cheers!

By: What Dave Chappelle and Stalkers Can Teach You About Learning Languages | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 22:07:08 +0000

[…] devices and websites Japanese? It’s kind of insane in its brutally straightforward logic: all Japanese people (and non-Japanese people) who are good at Japanese have been and remain exposed …; I want to be good at Japanese; I will expose myself to Japanese to the same extent as them. But it […]

By: How To Use People and Have Them Love You For It, Or: Don’t Fight Your Parents | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 13:37:08 +0000

[…] there are no sucky people. Our results are merely a near-perfect reflection of the frequency and absolute quantity of our practice and maintenance activities. That’s all the 10k hours idea boils down to. […]

By: Speaking: You Don’t Have A Linguistic Problem, You Have A Humanity Problem | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:01:52 +0000

[…] This is more of an “intermediate blues” thing. You’re not a beginner, but you’re not good. Yet. So you start to get frustrated. You start to compare multi-decade experience in an L1 to what typically amounts to a few hundred hours’ L2 exposure, an activity that is not only unfair and self-defeating, but also mathematically stupid. This state of affairs can be easily resolved by pointing out the arithmetic o… […]

By: Do “Wide Standards” Apply To Immersion?: High Achievement Despite Low=Wide Standards | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 06 May 2012 00:32:31 +0000

[…] (abstract perfection). IMHO, we want to approach this like engineers 6, not mathematicians 7. We don’t need infinity, we just need…a really large number. And…that metaphorical dirt, that margin of error, that imperfection, that traction, that […]

By: Jan

Jan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 03:50:50 +0000

I’m actually doing this now. Since I have already watched several hundred hours of amine subbed before starting the ajatt method, I decided it would be a good idea to rewatch my favs sans subs and also rip the audio from the eps to listen to from my iPod. I actually really like having some kind of idea, from previous viewings, of whats going on. Also, an unlikely source for this is crunchy roll. I generally watch random amine, and since the site has soft subs, one can easily turn the subs off. The only ‘problem’ is that the site has commercials, but I generally spend that time SRSing.

By: Anotherkanjisite

Anotherkanjisite — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 21:44:02 +0000

I strongly agree with the issue of adult stubbornness. There are a number of factors in play, it would seem. Definitely as you’ve pointed out there’s the wanting of the “one button” approach, though I blame the modern American media especially for this one (it’s all consumer-oriented, each advertiser attempting to promise grander results than the next, disillusioning the poor folk into thinking they are kings to whom the world will belong if only they dish out a sufficient enough amount of money at a cause).

There’s also the issue of the adult ego – adults hate being wrong, they hate feeling like they can’t understand something. As they try to study, the ego becomes stronger until it screams at them to stop trying the thing they are bad at and to return to the thing they are good at in order to help the ego feel better. Children have no egos, they simply have no choice but to go through countless series of mistakes until they ultimately achieve the knowledge.

Another factor that comes to mind is learned helplessness. While children experience no reserve at trying something over and over again, even if it’s falling off a bike and looking silly, adults have often learned to fear failure. They have instructed themselves that in order to avoid that which they fear, they must not pursue that particular venue. This is a subconscious habit that runs in many adults, especially if they are used to following established routines every day that they have grown comfortable in.

An interesting thought just came to mind, too. Imagine if someone had never learned to ride a bicycle. Think of all the hard-headed adults you know. Picture them trying to learn to ride a bicycle for the first time. How likely is it that they would agree to go through with it? They’d rather stand in the corner and frown and nod at the children riding bikes than “stoop down” to learning it themselves. And then they group up and blame it on “deterioration of ability due to age”. As long as they keep nodding at each other and agreeing with this “consensus” they get to live in a world that feels comfortable to them because in it, they are not at fault. But really, they’re just being too uptight and keeping themselves from having fun.

Sorry, felt like ranting a bit. =P

By: Critical Frequency: A Brand New Way of Looking At Language Exposure | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:40:34 +0000

[…] I used to subscribe to what you might call an absolute volume (critical mass) model of language acquistion. Basically, it goes like this: […]

By: khatzumoto

khatzumoto — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:48:07 +0000

睡眠時間も一応カウントするよ・・・（＾＾）

By: nikurasu

nikurasu — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 12:25:26 +0000

“Because she spent 24 hours a day 7 days a week 365 days a years studying Japanese. She has spent 40,000 hours listening to Japanese. Her name is Didi.” こう書いたけど、４０万時間は毎日で２７時間と同じことだよ。不思議じゃない？一日２４時間とか２２とか大変すぎるのよ。寝る時間とかない。多くの人は勇気を失うかもよ。そんなに沢山勉強してるのが無理でさ。誇張と違う？誇張なら、言って。お願いします。

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AJATT Plus » 子供を過大評価するな — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 04:24:06 +0000

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Why Have You Been Killing Babies?

Sun, 23 May 2010 04:00:36 +0000

[…] and you need it badly. In fact, you need it more than a “real” Japanese person does: they’ve had their fill; they can wait. Many of you have gone the entire first 10, 20, 30, 40 or more years of your life, […]

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Ask Dr. Khatz: Sidetracked in Salt Lake, Part 1

Sun, 09 May 2010 10:02:04 +0000

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » お巫山戯、日本語で: Japanese Babies That Suck…Even Harder Than You

Wed, 28 Apr 2010 10:01:45 +0000

[…] have to admit, one of the most humiliating parts of learning a language is when you realize that even three-year-olds put you to shame—after months or even years of trying to learn the blasted thing. When I go to a Japanese […]

By: MeisterKleister

MeisterKleister — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 23:45:50 +0000

Thanks for this great web site!

Question:
Does anyone have any good advice on Japanese radio streams? I only found two fully Japanese radio streams at
www.windowsmedia.com/radioui/Search.aspx?culture=en-us

i-Radio is fairly good, from what I can tell and the other stream is a live stream of the Tokyo stock market ( >_>)

Any other good fully Japanese radio streams from Japan? Anyone?
Thanks in advance.

By: Jonathan Mahoney

Jonathan Mahoney — Mon, 09 Mar 2009 23:18:23 +0000

Beautiful post. I love the way you talk. I’ve become a disciple of Katz. This is where it’s at.