Comments on: How to Stop Worrying and Accept that Learning a Language is Unfair — Going Beyond Day Trader Style Language Learning

By: If You’re Ever Stuck Between Two Languages, Pick the Less “Useful” One | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 22 Sep 2013 03:07:42 +0000

[…] The other issue is that you’re likely to need to go through a phase of being irrationally atta… The only language that’s likely to carry you through this phase is a language you love irrationally. Think of it as mid-flight turbulence or that phase of a haircut where your head looks worse than when you entered the barbershop. […]

By: TheBabelTimes

TheBabelTimes — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:13:47 +0000

hilarious piece from @ajatt about why language learning doesn’t “pay off” immediately t.co/kdEBNzcnT5

By: HanyuExplorer

HanyuExplorer — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 19:04:33 +0000

Intermediate angst. This series by @ajatt hits on a lot if the frustrations of this stage in language learning: t.co/ToX4CO7Hka

By: HackingChinese

HackingChinese — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 17:51:19 +0000

How to Stop Worrying and Accept that Learning a Language is Unfair (@ajatt): t.co/gKtwheJipc

By: Livonor

Livonor — Sun, 11 Aug 2013 13:32:02 +0000

I never understand all the lack-of-progressっぽい felling that all those dudes talk about, since we are always learning new words, listening and reading stuff, we are always facing those words again in real speech, and so the progress shows up, every time I saw those words I became so happy, if the word is one of those I-never-will-see-that-word-again vocabulary, I even start stupid dances or strange sounds with my mouth. And I also never forget how I was when I started, I remember like it was yesterday, understand manga and anime seemed like something so magical and fantastic, and here I am doing all that stuff, living the dream

By: FluentUChinese

FluentUChinese — Fri, 09 Aug 2013 15:48:03 +0000

Warren Buffet style language learning is the way to go – “Going Beyond Day Trader Style Language Learning” t.co/bSffBINwIS

By: FluentU

FluentU — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 19:03:36 +0000

Warren Buffet style language learning is the way to go – “Going Beyond Day Trader Style Language Learning” t.co/3Ac3IrNGpI

By: Translate From Spanish to English

Translate From Spanish to English — Thu, 01 Aug 2013 12:50:24 +0000

I like this article,
It’s inspiring. What do you think about this Katz:
isn’t language learning like STARTING A WEBSITE (considering that you set the niche and stuff and your good to go), and basically any business venture, right?
Most people dig for the treasure, but they stop inches before the chest when all you have to do is , just keep digging.
ANd I love the acorn metaphor here as well.
And with day trading, you mean short term traders right? I am on Stocks as well but long term, I earned 30% in a yeqar and a half. imagine if that were in a bank, I owuld have earned 2% by now?

By: Shironamushin

Shironamushin — Wed, 31 Jul 2013 06:29:01 +0000

this is the best article this site has ever had!!! DUde you should like publish your stuff… I think youd make a GREAT teacher for High School kids and young adults….

By: EuroTalk

EuroTalk — Mon, 29 Jul 2013 09:00:48 +0000

How to Stop Worrying and Accept that Learning a Language is Unfair – Going Beyond Day Trader Style Language Learning: t.co/xxsKqjdJXF

By: taijuando

taijuando — Sat, 27 Jul 2013 22:29:09 +0000

RT @ajatt: Getting used to a language is far more a matter of persistence — of lethargy — than intelligence. t.co/JqGOFNT4c7

By: フレヂィ

フレヂィ — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 16:07:33 +0000

Some days, I read an article on a (Japanese) news website/blog etc. And I’ll breeze right through it understanding the whole bit… down to the という’s. And some days, I’ll grasp 50% of what I read.

I used to kick myself in the a$$ thinking “man, I suck…” but now I just think “man, I’m doing quite alright :^)” and all that just because I’m sticking with it.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 15:15:16 +0000

For me things were harder in the beginning but it’s harder to feel any progress in the middle. I’ll listen to something spoken and I’ll know that in most sentences I’ll at least understand a word here and there if not a whole sentence but I sometimes get upset with what I don’t know rather than realizing how far I’ve come. When I just started though I was just thrilled to understand a single word, there were a lot of “wow I understood that word!” moments.

By: Agent J

Agent J — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 11:48:35 +0000

I wonder if I’m the only one who felt things were slower in the beginning and faster in the middle because of going from not understanding anything to being able to read easy stuff.

By: jpichon_net

jpichon_net — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 07:11:48 +0000

RT @ajatt: Getting used to a language is far more a matter of persistence — of lethargy — than intelligence. t.co/JqGOFNT4c7

By: 魔法少女☆かなたん

魔法少女☆かなたん — Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:55:36 +0000

Well, technically, y=x^3 isn’t an exponential function, but rather a power function. But yeah, I can see it’s kind of like that in the sense that progress seems faster at first; it’s that “1 to 8 — Yay, I know eight times more” thing that doesn’t feel so satisfying when it’s only 14%.

By: ferrisswatch

ferrisswatch — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 22:30:49 +0000

How to Stop Worrying and Accept that Learning a Language is …: Paleo people and Tim Ferriss try to eat like … t.co/Tv5TLNON40

By: roman_druzyagin

roman_druzyagin — Thu, 25 Jul 2013 19:43:34 +0000

“What this all means is that learning a language is profoundly, fundamentally unfair.” t.co/cB0Nhii2dL via @ajatt