Comments on: You Are What You Eat, You Write What You Read, You Speak What You Hear

By: 14 de maio de 2020 – _ariars_

14 de maio de 2020 – _ariars_ — Fri, 15 May 2020 12:41:39 +0000

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By: Immersion Strategy: Your Ears Are Sacred | AJATT | All Japanese All The Time

Sun, 29 Sep 2013 05:37:34 +0000

[…] in Japanese and other languages, you’re going to notice a strong aural trend. James (news), Jamie (peeing, German). Errybody. Of course they were visually engaged, too, as was I, but the aural […]

By: Kayla Language Tips

Kayla Language Tips — Tue, 11 Jun 2013 10:31:49 +0000

Input is really important, especially when you’re a beginner/intermediate learner.
If you never use your target language you will become bored of it. A long time ago, when I was learning Italian, I wasn’t able to order books on the internet yet.
As a result, I stopped learning Italian. That might sound radical but given that I’d been studying the same two grammar/vocabulary/conjugations books for 3 months straight, it shouldn’t be so surprising after all.

The only show I had access to was Deal or No Deal, so I quickly said “No Deal” and gave up.

Now I know that if I started over I could find more material.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Tue, 14 May 2013 14:47:45 +0000

I think input is easier than output, and perhaps more important at the beginning, but to really progress you need the output.

By: Keep it Greasy!: Bookmark Your Talents | Samurai Mind Online

Keep it Greasy!: Bookmark Your Talents | Samurai Mind Online — Sat, 11 May 2013 09:42:19 +0000

[…] away and our lives are so busy that it may seem like it is impossible to attain certain talents. Japanese? French? Arabic? Guitar? Coding? Farfegnoogin? Fuggetaboutit? But lately I’ve been […]

By: Hiragana

Hiragana — Thu, 09 May 2013 16:33:28 +0000

I’m sorry to report on the demise of the RTK forum.
First there was this : forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?id=11299&p=1
now there’s this : forum.koohii.com/viewtopic.php?pid=202139
I’m very sad to hear this as it was a great community. What are your thoughts on this Khatz?

By: The Art of Japanese Green Tea

The Art of Japanese Green Tea — Thu, 09 May 2013 12:58:29 +0000

Hey Jamie, sorry I must have ready that wrong. My apologies, keep up the good work!

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:45:08 +0000

and i said after 3 months of immersion AND srsing… NOT “after 3 months of SRSing”

By: Jamie

Jamie — Wed, 08 May 2013 15:42:30 +0000

actually that’s wrong……. I started SRSing SINCE December 2011, right from the start of my immersion. after 3 months of immersion (with SRSing involved, so in other words around March 2012, I was already able to hold basic IM chats and Email conversation in German with other Germans and Austrians…. who all said that they couldn’t believe that my German was so good after 3 months.. and to this day i still talk to Germans, Austrians, and Swiss people online, who say my German is very good. But saying that I spent a year immersing before SRSing is COMPLETELY FALSE!!!!

By: taijuando

taijuando — Wed, 08 May 2013 10:40:05 +0000

“Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes. –Benjamin Disraeli” . . . it’s why I stay off most forums (except this one, and FB, and and and.) Yeah, and the fact I’m so busy with work, changing diapers, etc that I need any free time to be filled with good stuff. Thanks for a new “mantra.”

By: The Art of Japanese Green Tea

The Art of Japanese Green Tea — Tue, 07 May 2013 21:43:57 +0000

Sometimes when I read these success stories, I wonder how so much progress could be made so quickly. Sometimes I find them a little demotivational, but I think this post has shed some light on the mystery.

Jamie mentions that she had been doing German immersion for a about a year, but nothing came of it until she began SRSing. Three months later, she was having amazing results. Maybe I’m not giving SRS enough credit, but I think that the year prior to her SRSing may have been worth more than she thought.

I’ve found that in my continuing journey through Japanese, before you can truly understand phrases or sentences in a foreign language, you have to be used to hearing/seeing them, whether you understand them or not. I know this concept isn’t new to AJATTeer’s – it’s written in the site’s header after all – but even so, I have a feeling Jamie was already used to a lot of German, and just got an extra boost from SRSing because it helped bridge gaps that she hadn’t been bridging before (through bi/monolingual hints).

Maybe I’m jaded from my journey. Maybe that’s why I feel a little demotivated when I read success stories like this. However, I bet I’m not the only one, so I hope someone else feels comforted in the idea that Jamie’s results were from her 1 1/4 years of hard work, rather than 90 days of SRS.

By: MCG

MCG — Mon, 06 May 2013 13:51:29 +0000

Not to be too cynical about your process, Khatz, but part of the secret here is that Jamie is an English-speaker, and her target language was German. I’ve been working on French for a long time, and I take in at least 90 minutes of French radio a day. But for me, German still feels like Pig Latin compared with French, which is much more difficult.

By: Jake

Jake — Mon, 06 May 2013 00:20:36 +0000

You are what you eat…so only ‘eat’ Japanese.

By: フレヂィ

フレヂィ — Sun, 05 May 2013 20:55:53 +0000

Don’t forget… “You act what you see.” Mannerism play a good part in all this as well. But this is more of a ‘nice to have’ as opposed to a necessity.

~ fv