Truth be told, I see that Japanese is pretty simple gramatically, but since I have no real need to speak it (my wife speaks PERFECT broken English, I never learned it. I did at one time learn to stumble my way through Frnch and Spanish (4 years of Latin in High School certainly helped). I’m also a jazz singer and most musicians seem to have an affinity for languages (they all have their own rhythms and flow), but Japanese vocabulary seems daunting. If I lived in Japan for six months, I’m sure I would learn to speak it relatively well. Hopefully, your AJTTT methods will help me to impress both my lovely wife as well as her Mom and all of her Japanese friends, both in the US and in Japan.

Thanks for the update Khatz, and for everyone else, this actually works! Phrases are constantly popping into my head in situations where it would make sense. I can kinda remember kanji I reviewed a few times that go with a phrase, and for ones that are further off I can write from memory without having ever written them. That may be because I look at a lot of japanese [I have newspapers taped to the wall in a large swath] and my immersion environment, but that just goes to show that this shiz works!

If this is just three weeks in, I wonder how amazing 6 months or a year on this will be!