Comments on: So Should We Track and Log Every Second of Japanese?

By: CantoSpoon: SilverSpoon for Cantonese — Because This Is What Bruce Lee Would Have Wanted | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 20 May 2012 09:32:45 +0000

[…] achieved good results in Cantonese as well. Because my real time playing Cantonese has been less than for Japanese, I don’t go around getting confused for a […]

By: Kanjiboy

Kanjiboy — Mon, 06 Feb 2012 03:34:49 +0000

Dude you are my clone, I though I was the only person who put studying Japanese into that perspective, Most people never even think about that dude, you rock!!!

By: SinoSpoon: SilverSpoon for Mandarin. It’s What Marco Polo Wished He’d Had | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Fri, 25 Nov 2011 15:10:24 +0000

[…] achieved good results in Mandarin as well. Because my real time playing Mandarin has been less than for Japanese, I don’t go around getting confused for a […]

By: I need to lose weight!

I need to lose weight! — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:28:58 +0000

Reminds me of tracking calorie intake lol. Now I feel even guiltier for having eaten chocolate yesterday. :<
But yeah, keeping track of seconds isn’t that useful 🙂

By: Veren

Veren — Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:26:06 +0000

Actually, do that.
Track your time, seriously. Perhaps not every second, but definitely every chunk of ten minutes.
There are internet applications which makes it easier; if you don’t want to use them, track time spent in your most important activities. I started doing it at the beginning of 2011, and it has been eye opening.

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Why Seconds And Not Hours? | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 15:01:10 +0000

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By: tokostyle

tokostyle — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 08:41:48 +0000

It's the #6 kanji if you are using the Google 日本語入力. http://www.google.com/intl/ja/ime/

By: ライトニング

ライトニング — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 03:37:17 +0000

Quick question ^-^
Does anybody know how to type　the old versions of some kanji? Such as 學 instead of 学？ It’s not even in the list of the IME after you hit space, and I don’t want to have to draw it on the IME pad 🙂

By: Eri

Eri — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:38:52 +0000

I think counting things in hours at least is more sensible; seconds can give an impression of more than it actually is (“I’ve studied for a million seconds!” “But that’s only like, 228 hours…”) But years is definitely too big a thing to count your Japanese exposure in. It also give a sense of it being a lot, even if it really isn’t.
So that means, if I limit myself to say, 16 hours of Japanese input a day on average (I’m sure it’s more if I account for weekends and holidays, but I’m too lazy to try and figure out what it might actually be; besides, the less I think the have the better because I’ll work harder to get more hurrhurrhurr), and say I started this hard-core AJATT in April (again, I’m sure it was before then, but that’s the farthest bad I can remember doing this…) Today I have around 2800 hours of Japanese input. By the end of December I’ll have 4320 hours of Japanese input, give or take…
Also, I’ve finally figured out how to make sure I do everything in Japanese that I would in a normal day in English: have a check list. It makes things so much easier.

By: 李便神

李便神 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 22:06:08 +0000

Hell yeah.
This post really gets out the indignation I feel when someone asks or says “how many years/months have you been studying X language?”
That 2 years of language study could amount to a low frequency 500 hours in total! These time spans don’t tell anything remotely accurate in proportion to language kung-fu ability.

By: Josh Mills

Josh Mills — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 19:32:31 +0000

hmm never thought about it like that,its posts like this that keep me coming back <3 ( not really i’d come back anyway >.< )

By: Caren

Caren — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 18:56:08 +0000

So true. I was studying Japanese for “8 years”. However, after tallying up my actual estimated time studying, it was only about 850 hours. Absolutely pathetic. I then realized that if I’d been studying even somewhere around 1-2 hours for just 2 years, I’d have over 5000 hours! Now imagine the hours if I’d spent ALL (or even nearly all) of my free time learning just for 2 years….

Procrastination sucks, and I know from when I learned English that immersion works best (I was fluent in roughly a month). So why is it so hard for me to commit to immersing myself in Japanese? Must be that Adult literacy problem…(or sheer laziness). I’m trying to immerse myself as much as I can but I feel I’m not doing enough. 🙁 Those seconds just aren’t adding up fast enough!

Well time for me to do more kanji and sentence SRS drills, and go read the children’s book I’m lugging around. *mutters* immersion…immersion…immeerrrrrsion