Comments on: It’s Not The Years, It’s the Seconds: A Stack of Washingtons Is Not Worth The Same As a Stack of Benjamins /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/ 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: You Are Not, Never Have Been and Never Will Be The Right Age For Anything | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-1000060596 Thu, 24 Oct 2013 11:37:05 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-1000060596 […] 75: People would laugh. You’re old now. You should a started when you were 45. In your prime. But that was 30 years ago, you coulda had 30 years of practice under your belt by now. […]

]]> By: O nauce języków, nie tylko angielskiego – linki, wrzesień ’11 | Język Angielski dla każdego - Ucz się sam! /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-140540 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 06:35:53 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-140540 […] It’s Not The Years, It’s the Seconds: A Stack of Washingtons Is Not Worth The Same As a Stack of… – Khatzumoto jak zwykle trafił w punkt! I kolejny post nawiązujący do oryginalnego napisany w odpowiedzi na jeden z komentarzy: So Should We Track and Log Every Second of Japanese? Podobał Ci się post? Pomyśl nad 'podzieleniem się nim' ze znajomymi, zostawieniem komentarza albo subskrypcją kanału RSS, żeby nie przegapić nowych postów.   Rozmowa 😉 /* LingQ linki metody narrow reading native speaker native speakers nauka news o nauce języków phone call pisanie podcast radio real language samodzielnie Stephen Krashen Steve Kaufmann strategia strategie słownictwo TED tłumaczenie użyteczne zdania video vocabulary wymowa […]

]]> By: Tyler /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135913 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 07:10:42 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135913 Determined people.

]]> By: kalek /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135871 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:23:38 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135871 Yeah, it totally didn’t make sense to me either at first.  18-24 hours? No one studies a language like that.  I missed the part where he was just watching and listening for most of that. “Coasting” is what he’s been calling it these days.

I tried reading the site probably three more times throughout the next month.  It clicked by the end of the month and I jumped in immediately, starting RtK on the same day.

I still reread articles a couple of times a week to keep motivation up, plus even now (14 months after finding this site originally) I find new things I missed originally all the time. 

]]> By: きのこ /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135868 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 02:20:07 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135868 Come on Khatz, who *really* keeps track of every single second?

]]> By: DAVID /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135805 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 21:21:02 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135805 THIS ONE HIT mE HARD KHATZ, KEEP EM COMIN!

]]> By: Chagami /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135782 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:53:17 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135782 My eureka moment was back in January. After not really knowing what AJATT was all about for a few months, I got it from re-reading the “About” xD

]]> By: Marzian /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135777 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:31:49 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135777 I’m familiar with the Amazon Store, but it hasn’t been updated for a long time.

]]> By: 魔法少女☆かなたん /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135776 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 19:28:33 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135776 A lot of these books are included in his Amazon store links to ←the left← under Phase 1. I don’t know if they’re complete lists of every book mentioned on this blog, though, but they certainly included all of the ones I remember.

]]> By: Miss Language Learning /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135649 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:08:45 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135649 AJATT should be clear to you by now. :p

]]> By: Miss Language Learning /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-135648 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 09:08:11 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-135648 Oh yeah that would be awesome. I’ve been looking for such a list forever.

]]> By: Marzian /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134838 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 13:09:31 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134838 Request for Khatz: in your articles/tweets, you often quote some books of value (both Eng/Jap ones). Since I (and maybe I’m not the only one) forget to jot ’em down… Could you keep an updated list somewhere? That would be awesome, thanks!

]]> By: 魔法少女☆かなたん /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134731 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 04:00:46 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134731 日本語版ちょうだい！

]]> By: Chagami /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134505 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 07:01:26 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134505 I think that may be the point. There are probably about 10 key posts that explain 90% of AJATT, but everyone – myself included – who have tried to understand AJATT seem to need a specific approach/angle of explaining something in order to get a that *eureka* moment. Khatz is just simply giving us other ways of looking at things.
 
For a website chalked full of information and wisdom, AJATT is actually rather vague to the uninitiated.

]]> By: hermanblue /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134487 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:11:00 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134487 khats starts to repeat himself.

]]> By: blackbrich /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134458 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:49:09 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134458 [Estimated Hours/Day in Japanese] * 360 * [Years Studying Japanese] * 365

]]> By: ガイ /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134455 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:42:08 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134455 How would I know how much seconds I have spent *IN* Japanese lol…

]]> By: blackbrich /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134453 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:36:25 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134453 Every second you spend *in* Japanese is a quality second.

]]> By: Dustin /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134449 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 03:13:35 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134449 I’d say any second spent listening, reading, or writing your target language would count as a quality second.  “any second with target language within the radius of the senses” > “outside of radius”.

]]> By: Chagami /its-not-the-years-its-the-seconds/#comment-134394 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:45:58 +0000 /?p=4945#comment-134394 So, any chance at a definition of a *quality second* spent in Japanese/_target_language_?

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