To all doubters, this man’s “technique” (if you wanna call it that) works. As
native English speakers, we’re conditioned to think of language as something to
attack: “I wanna DOMINATE (target language.)” “I wanna MASTER (target language.)”
Learning a language is not a war, it is an experience. Fall in love with the
culture, and the language will be seeping from your pores.

Thank you Khatz. You’ve proven I’m not crazy for wrapping myself in Spanish to the
point of being called “Blaxican” by everyone I knew.

Peace.

For console galge, it’s all about PSN. Grab a PSP/PS3 and a Japanese PSN account and buy all the datas you want. Similarly, for hard copies, PlayAsia has you covered.

Hope that helps.

Really it’s not so bad. I recognize the icons, which helps, and I’ve been learning the ONYOMI using the “movie method” (associate all similar sounding onyomi to scenes from a particular film), so it’s not a huge step for an intermediate learner wading through the kanji-rich environs of the iphone OS.

Oh, and Khatz, thanks for your post on “getting used to Japanese” vs. “Learning Japanese”. That was very helpful for me in seeing immersion as attainable and non-threatening.

Finally, my wife, who has zero interest in Japanese, still loves some of the learning concepts I’ve passed onto her from your blog. Keep it up. (we don’t have time to read all those books you read!)

It’s a bit of an issue I’ve been having… Whenever I notice I’m reading English that I don’t need to be reading, I’ll stop, but in the process make a vacuum.. I need to find a good resource of simple Japanese to read… -_-‘

I remember reading your blog a few years back, and thought it was some crazy idea .

And now, I’m almost there… almost fluent…

I can listen and watch Japanese drama and understand about 80% of whats being said. Now I’m just learning and remembering kanji.

It’s a great feeling, because I was listening to Tohoshinki song that was in One Piece, and actually understood part of the chorus, which said “If it rains, I’ll be your umbrella, If its a strong wind, I’ll be your wall”… and I was like dam son thats so poetic….

Mind you I’ve been listening to this song for more than a hundred times….

Now I just gotta get literate, btw, Khatz, you know where I can buy japanese galge ? Clannad or Air? Jlist has it but I think their’s is all translated….

“She’s whipping out her iPhone and doing Surusu reps every time ((he)) gets five minutes here or there. She loves to whip things out”

pulled the switch-aroo on us there. 😛