Comments on: Processes Not Results, Or: Everything I Ever Needed To Know About Life I Learned Washing Dishes

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 12 Nov 2013 08:00:35 +0000

Khatz, I used to be a dishwasher at a restaurant for about two years, long before I stumbled upon this site. I was a junior in high school at the time and it seriously sucked to wash everybody’s filth. I figured out a way to get through the nights though by basically doing what you suggest to do with Japanese (or any other language for that matter). I played games while washing them. I used these square-like dish holders and some games were how fast could I fill the holder or how many could I do in an hour. My favorite game was seeing the holder like a Tetris board and fitting the different sizes and shapes of dishes onto the holder while taking up the most space, it was awesome. Just like with Japanese, just gotta keep moving and have fun! 😀

By: Dodomeki

Dodomeki — Sun, 09 Oct 2011 03:33:40 +0000

And this is exactly how integrals work in calculus.

By: Max Out The Cause Card: The Omnipotence of Precursors | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 09:49:18 +0000

[…] you do need to think a bit to avoid certain pitfalls of the the cause-centered path…the path-centered path…the journey-centered journey. Fortunately for the intellectually lazy (yours truly included), you don’t need to think that […]

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Potheads, Planners and Players

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:15:07 +0000

[…] On the player’s path, each of those points/forks/choices is a chance to change the future — to alter reality itself in a small way. Be a player. I’m not saying “abandon all thought of goals” — never let ideology get in the way of something truly useful — but I am saying let it go; leave well enough alone; it’s not helping like you think it is. Stop massaging these great big “mission statements”; that crap is nothing but empty prose. Stop getting aroused, confused and intimidated by all these “goalistic rituals” that are taking over our society and start poking tiny, pin-sized holes into reality. No one fails for lack of a goal, only for a lack of dots. Dot, dot, dot, dot………… […]

By: Feeling overwhelmed? Stop trying so damn hard!

Feeling overwhelmed? Stop trying so damn hard! — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:56:27 +0000

[…] importance of small, incremental, accumulated action, rather than big, difficult steps. His post on washing dishes, and the importance of process over results, is particularly good. As usual, he’s put […]

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » When Will I Get Funny?

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 03:40:35 +0000

[…] on native-like process, rather than native-like results. The results will come from the process. Gosh, I get tense just reading your email […]

By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Motivation For Cynical People

Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:42:45 +0000

[…] is “re-interpreted” slightly, but I never liked his original voice anyway) while washing dishes, and I have Chinese comics in the restroom, and Chinese newspapers pasted all over my walls, and […]

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Kanji-lish and Rikaichan, 2 plugins a installer!!! « la mimizone — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 07:21:50 +0000

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By: All Japanese All The Time Dot Com: How to learn Japanese. On your own, having fun and to fluency. » Aim to Fail

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 13:17:45 +0000

[…] dislike or fail to recognize the success you had worked for. My personal solution is to largely ignore the immediate failure-point at hand, and get excited about the overall process-function [of failing massively]; that’s how I stay excited and keep going. Individual failure-points […]

By: cb4960

cb4960 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:26:09 +0000

Kanji-lish is quite an interesting plugin.

I put together a Kanji-lish profile that contains keywords from both RTK 1 and RTK 3:
www.mediafire.com/download.php?0xjxwmmj42z

By: frauleingunderson

frauleingunderson — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 19:38:06 +0000

Off topic but,
Holy f-ing shiz.. KANJI-LISH IS AWESOME. Install it people.
Thanks for the recommendation on twitter, person who runs this blog!

By: Saleem

Saleem — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 01:12:41 +0000

Hey Khatz,

Found a site you might like on learning

brainaudit.com/blog/

Also a couple of people discuss goals here:
www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2009/03/15/ready_aim____fail/?page=full

How did your Victory (um, I can’t remember what it was called, map? Calendar?) thing turn out?

By: Alyks

Alyks — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 01:51:14 +0000

This is so on topic:

ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/フェミニズム#.E6.97.A5.E6.9C.AC.E3.81.AE.E3.83.95.E3.82.A7.E3.83.9F.E3.83.8B.E3.82.BA.E3.83.A0

By: Ed

Ed — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 23:48:45 +0000

off topic but awesome:

www.2pacjapan.net/lyric/all1_12.html

learn japanese from tupac!

By: isharabash

isharabash — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 21:20:44 +0000

Hi Khatz,

Thanks for the site… although I’m finding I’m spending a lot of time here as well as studying…

Anyway, a question I had that has probably been asked a ton of times, if you don’t know how to say a kanji, how do you learn to speak?

But I am trying the listening thing and… it actually is working.

By: きのこ

きのこ — Mon, 23 Mar 2009 12:56:17 +0000

Khatz, thanks for twittering Kato Lomb’s book. It was very interesting indeed. A bit sketchy on the details, but I still came away thinking “Oh yeah, can totally do this!” so it’s all good.

By: beneficii

beneficii — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 19:31:27 +0000

Another good resource for input is nicovideo.jp, which is like YouTube, but more suited to the Japanese audience. They do not discriminate against people outside of Japan, and you can register a username for free anywhere in the world to be able to watch videos. One really cool feature they have that YouTube lacks is that comments are always attached to a certain time on the video and when you get to the time that a comment is attached to on the video, the comment scrolls across the video. It’s really cool and lets you see more closely how Japanese people are reacting to things, I think.

nicovideo.jp

By: TheOtaku

TheOtaku — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 01:06:08 +0000

@Forrest Thank you for putting that tweet here <3

By: Johann

Johann — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:03:15 +0000

So, about that Twitter message…
>I’m thinking TV commercials have immense untapped power as a language-learning tool.
Not sure what you mean with the “untapped” part Khatz, but this is definitely true. Commercials contain piles words you hardly encounter anywhere else when you don’t happen to live in the country where they speak the language. Movies and video games are great for learning foreign languages, but you don’t ever see anyone talk of everyday stuff like doing the laundry in them.
Plus, commercials nowadays are usually funny, well-thought out and extremely polished pieces of entertainment rather than boring announcements. I’ve learned tons of new English words just through browsing Youtube for funny commercials.
Too bad most TV networks still insist on ignoring the internet as an international distribution medium, DVDs and illegal rips don’t come with ads (other than that “LOL U BAWT HOUR DVD, UR A PIRATE!!!1!” crap)