But I can say that I still read all the time, and I skim every book I read. Only after I finished the book and find it quite good will I then read the book again in detail.

Also this will lead to isolation. Espicially if you have a random mind like me. It doesn’t matter who you are you live in a English society you will be isolated. It’s not lonely hardcore isolation but it’s more like your being treated differnt. I have no idea if this will work that should be included for all of you. I will still do it because I truly believe Khatz learned this way. I will continue to live on as that proof. Besides have fun and use common sense. In some situations in life rarely sometimes you have to defy all logic to make up your own. That’s how world history was invented. 😀

I’ve also given up on forcing myself to read to the end of something. In fact, I have a new rule, whereby if I find myself counting the number of pages until the end of the chapter, then I put the book down, and choose another. Just because I’ve said I’ll read for a bit doesn’t mean I have to read it all from the same book.

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Khatzumoto was also too goal-oriented once, but in his teaching style. He taught goal-orientation a little too much, and people reacted the wrong way. Maybe he overcorrected, but I think that’s probably for the better. Nobody will not-learn Japanese by having too much fun and not focusing on a goal. Nobody will walk away hating the language and cursing all the time they wasted watching good anime and reading good manga and listening to good music and reading good websites etc etc.

But people will focus on the goal too much. They’ll do that all on their own (myself included). I imagine very few people set out to learn Japanese without a goal in mind. We all want fluency. Khatz deliberately steers us away* from that mindset and to a mindset that guarantees language acquisition, even if it’s not on a perfect timescale. People who work well with goals will cling to their goals and be better for it, and that’s that.

*If it weren’t for the fact that I can cite sources there, I’d definitely feel like a preacher for the Church of AJATT after writing that.

Anyhow it tests for 6000 kanji!!!!. To be honest one of the reasons i want to go far and learn the meanings/writing of them all is cuz i want to head towards manadarin/cantonese after japanese. Since they all use the same characters knowing large amounts would be easy to transfer over once I’ve reached a good level in Japanese. But i think for the kanji kentai you need to know large amounts of vocab. in order to use the kanji past 2042 so hmm. I guess it’s best for ppl to learn how to use initial 2042 then head towards 3007 then beyond. I heard that are university graduates in china know around 5000-6000 characters. This is standard there but in japanese knowing this amount would lead to high levels of reading/writing as well. But i also read that heisig i think is going to make 4000+ characters and ultimate goal of 10,000 characters. But first things first get fluent in japanese!!! then learn wayyy moreeee characters!!!

There are the others that have no problem having fun, but tend to be not ‘goal focused’, so they don’t get anywhere as fast as the might if they were more goal oriented, more practical.

The ideal student is someone who is goal oriented, always pushes their self, but also is always easy on their self, and always has fun.

You’re always pushing the ‘have fun’ but you should push the goal oriented stuff too. I think some percentage of people want guidance in that realm.