This entry is part 1 of 4 in the series A Year Isn’t A Year if It’s Not a Year: Stop Counting Money By Weighing ItRecently, I met this one girl. She’s really cute. And she knows Japanese. Fluently. Native-level fluently. After only studying it four years. She talks circles around people who studied it…
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It’s Not The Years, It’s the Seconds: A Stack of Washingtons Is Not Worth The Same As a Stack of Benjamins
by khatzumoto
Measuring language “study” time in years is like trying to count mixed cash by weighing it. Hello? Denominations…
So Should We Track and Log Every Second of Japanese?
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series A Year Isn’t A Year if It’s Not a Year: Stop Counting Money By Weighing Itきのこ on September 19, 2011 at 11:20 “Come on, Khatz — who really keeps track of every single second?” j.mp/nper5S No one does. And I would never suggest you do.…
Why Seconds And Not Hours?
by khatzumoto
This entry is part 3 of 4 in the series A Year Isn’t A Year if It’s Not a Year: Stop Counting Money By Weighing ItEri on September 28, 2011 at 07:38: I think counting things in hours at least is more sensible; seconds can give an impression of more than it actually is (“I’ve…