Comments on: How To Make The Monolingual Transition in Baby Steps /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/ You don't know a language, you live it. You don't learn a language, you get used to it. Sat, 04 Jul 2020 16:09:19 +0900 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.1.13 By: Matt /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000525642 Sat, 06 Jun 2015 04:31:53 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000525642 I give away the secrets for free: youtu.be/2AH2JmxglzU

]]> By: Holiday Magic! Omnibus: The Mother of All Sentence Packs | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000063753 Wed, 25 Dec 2013 03:09:46 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000063753 […] How To Make The Monolingual Transition in Baby Steps […]

]]> By: Hiei /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000054187 Wed, 17 Jul 2013 00:35:29 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000054187 Yikes Khatz!!!!

its doubled already!!!!!

I guess I have to settle for the waiting list.

]]> By: Tom P /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053972 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 19:46:00 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053972 I am honored to be tweeted by the great KM

m(_ _)m

]]> By: 魔法少女☆かなたん /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053954 Thu, 11 Jul 2013 03:19:36 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053954 I agree.

However, the biggest issue I’ve ever had with children’s dictionaries is that I can’t really find one that I can use on my computer to copy/paste from. This means a LOT of manual entries, which are … time consuming. On the other hand, furigana and having pictures for some things are awesome.

]]> By: Octonion /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053947 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 22:59:31 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053947 Wow, thanks! I had picked up a grade school dictionary way back, in anticipation of the monolingual transition, based on this post. But by the time I actually got around to transitioning I had forgotten all about it! I’d been managing to do OK with dic.yahoo.co.jp, more or less, but this really was a zillion times easier. And then I tried out the app which was like another factor of a zillion times easier! While I’ll probably want to head back to adult dictionaries at some point (after 1000 cards, maybe?) for the time being this feels really game-changing. Thanks again!

]]> By: ミヒ /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053943 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 21:34:40 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053943 thank you!

]]> By: jphiled /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053940 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 16:09:03 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053940 RT @ajatt: “For me, the transition to mono was a zillion times easier by starting out using a J-J dictionary made for grade sch… t.c…

]]> By: ajatt /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053941 Wed, 10 Jul 2013 09:00:47 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053941 “For me, the transition to mono was a zillion times easier by starting out using a J-J dictionary made for grade sch… t.co/4HgNUGqjWC

]]> By: Tom P /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053891 Tue, 09 Jul 2013 11:52:59 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053891 I have a printed one (whose name escapes me) that I found at Kinokuniya in San Jose, selected it by just thumbing through the many they had on display.

For my iPad, I use this childrens dictionary www.monokakido.jp/iphone/reikaikokugo.html

For “adult” J-J I have several that are good including
www.monokakido.jp/iphone/daijirin.html and www.logovista.co.jp/LVERP/information/iPhone/product/f/6.html

]]> By: 無神論者 /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053871 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 22:48:34 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053871 Oh monetary system, why must you debilitate me so?

]]> By: ミヒ /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053869 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 20:39:20 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053869 Sounds like a real good idea. Care to share which one you are using?

]]> By: Tom P /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053866 Mon, 08 Jul 2013 18:46:48 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053866 My two yen worth…

For me, the transition to mono was a zillion times easier by starting out using a J-J dictionary made for grade school children. Easy definitions, easy sample sentences. Once I got used to that, I transitioned to a more adult-centric dictionary, but I still frequently go back to the kiddie jisho when needed.

]]> By: 魔法少女☆かなたん /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053784 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 12:12:34 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053784 「お前の母ちゃんビッチ！」
srsly I lol’d

]]> By: kanjiguy /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053779 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 09:15:58 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053779 I left that comment when the article was originally posted in May. There was no link at the time and khatz deleted/removed the article the next day. Perhaps he posted it by mistake and wasn’t ready.

Khatz could have been really cool and deleted my comment since he was gonna repost it later but why not make me look like a giant ass lol. It’s cool though I ended up going monolingual on my own, I read some mono articles on ajatt plus and khatz’s way just didn’t work for me. I think he’s right about going slow like “add 1 card, pat yourself on the back.” then you don’t even review for a day or two… REAL SLOW, but I don’t like it no… I disagree 100% with “look up words you already know” in fact, I think that is stupid.

What I did was just look up one or two words as I went along, new words, then… wait a minute I’m not just going to tell you for free… but I did it kind of backwards to what khatz tells you and I think my method works better because you don’t do hundreds or thousands of recursive look ups like khatz and jalup want you to do.. what a waste of time.

]]> By: liz /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053770 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:45:41 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053770 Well hi there. First off ジス・イズ・ア・ペン made me lol. Welcome to my apartment, at the moment. (English lesson time).

So I’m supposed to be done SS, but with Neutrino I am still an obese caterpillar.
I spend most days listening to a lot of Japanese @ research sites. Complicated, grad school level Japanese. And I have recently let myself regress from mono SNS cards to bilingual, because I was hating my mono cards… hating. And I wasn’t retaining anything, and I didn’t know what the definitions meant, and.. yeah.

And I am realizing that right now what I need to do is more systematically learn some of the basic terms I’ve never picked up. Like… nihongo 101 terms that I breezed by before.
Going by interesting passages rather than “words I NEED” wasn’t helping me get by in Nee-hon very well. So yeah… I started doing dictionary sentences bilingually, and find that I retain better that way. But I feel like maybe I’m slowing myself down. Whadyathink?

So yeah, dunno if this is for me (broke-jotai aside) or not. And maybe this wasn’t the right place to post this. Maybe I am trolling your blog. Time to leave my apartment, I think.

p.s. you’d better name drop me in your blog sometime. I am getting jealous of these other bitches. 😉 Kidding, kidding!

]]> By: Anonymous /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000053769 Sat, 06 Jul 2013 04:43:29 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000053769 Click the giant orange words. Right now, the price is a little over $200.

]]> By: Kanjiguy /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000021361 Sat, 11 May 2013 16:34:08 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000021361 whoops meant j-j definitions when doing srs… hopefully after I wake up the price won’t have skyrocketed 😛

]]> By: Kanjiguy /how-to-make-the-monolingual-transition-in-baby-steps/#comment-1000021359 Sat, 11 May 2013 16:32:04 +0000 /?p=23087#comment-1000021359 Alright Khatz, I’ll bite. I’ve quit mono so many times. I just can’t seem to make it stick, I get a little ways in then it starts to become painful and just not worth the time vs just doing regular mono cards but I do recognize the benefit when I read j-j sentences I can already understand I just wish I could make a full SRS transition I don’t know how people do it. I’ll do this though sign me up, because I want to finally get over this hurdle… Where is the link or pricing info or countdown? Unless I’m missing something. I don’t see anything above or in the ajatt store, in the source code, mother’s legs etc.

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