Comments on: You can have do or be ANYthing, but you can’t have do or be EVERYthing

By: Spiritdancer

Spiritdancer — Sat, 01 Feb 2020 22:52:50 +0000

You are wise and hilarious and a good writer! You should write a book. Have you? Not just about Japanese but about how to get what you want in life. There is a lot of good stuff here! But you need to update the look of your blog.

By: Leon Macfayden

Leon Macfayden — Fri, 20 Dec 2019 18:28:17 +0000

Yeah, for me its time to get a divorce, quit my job and disown my family. Or you could be realistic and not take AJATT so literally because for many people it is LITERALLY impossible to function without English. So for me, I will be doing my usual 8 or 9 hours immersion and keep my family. Although this was posted a long time ago and you are probably done with Japanese by now.

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By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 21:44:34 +0000

I am currently passionate about getting to grips with the French language and take the spirit of your principles and am motivated to drop all else in my life for a short while and go for it 100% or as close as possible. That does mean making some tough choices because it is so unbalanced but maybe if I can set a time period then just perhaps . . . . . . Cheers.

By: Jon

Jon — Thu, 02 Jan 2014 05:01:15 +0000

Good perspective.

By: cél

cél — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 22:18:34 +0000

It’s SO difficult to make a choice and “mourn over” ALL the others one woudl like to master.

By: Vince

Vince — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 22:09:06 +0000

That is a great image.

By: Kimchi

Kimchi — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 04:16:31 +0000

with ditzy girls with names like “Kimberley”. . .gee thanks. *insulted*
Anyways. . .
I’m sad, sad because I knew all along that I have to sacrifice tihngs I love beyond my own understanding to get to the place I’m gonna get to. You just made it even more obvious, and real.
But acknowledgement is the first step. The rest comes afterwards.
(sudden urge to eat water chestnuts)
The people that are closest to me are on opposite ends of the scale on this.
On one hand, a person who knows equal exchange and therefore sacrifices a lot of time with family to be with friends and a lot of time with those friends to play videogames (true passion)
On the other a person who wants to do everything right and true and preferably all at once too.(imagine how much that person gets done in a day. . .not much)
So i know the joy of doing what you want to, and the sadness of the people you give up to do that.
You can’t jump to one trapeze without letting go of the other but damn if most of us don’t try to anyways.
Ah, all the things I’m gonna miss. . .

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By: NinKenDo

NinKenDo — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:43:18 +0000

I’m afraid I am NOT willing to do all that, not quite.

To me, the prospect of success afforded when I maintain my current life while also leading a “Japanese life” is good enough.

Maybe I won’t learn Japanese to the level you did in 18 months, hell I may never get to your level, but I know Japanese can be learnt without such drastic measures and I’m happy to pay the time penalty and the extra difficulty if it means maintaining a good protion of my current life.

Still, really enjoyed this article. It really put some things in to perspective for me.

By: Miss Language Learning

Miss Language Learning — Wed, 26 Oct 2011 22:16:12 +0000

Wow you’re full of crap. Good luck.

By: Kimura

Kimura — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 21:32:59 +0000

I tried doing that with Minecraft, but the language mod hasn’t been updated to 1.8… (Normally, changing languages is as easy as replacing en_US.lang and deleting META-INF, but since it’s a different character set, actual code modding is required.) Guess I have to be content with 日本語でマインクラフトのLPs…

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By: Santiago

Santiago — Mon, 11 Jul 2011 02:13:34 +0000

Why not get a mod and play songs in Japanese? 😀

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By: AD

AD — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:36:01 +0000

I don’t know if you’ll read this Tal, but it is pretty obvious that the reason he is so demanding is because he knows that we are all adults, and all have English in our lives somewhere. He even stated this.

However, if he suddenly said, ‘f it, just try and put the Japanese wherever it seems good, preferably after dinner and before late night with talk show host’ then the whole meaning would be lost.

/もうちょっと頑張って下さいね！

By: Tal

Tal — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:30:20 +0000

Hm. This article *almost* made me completely abandon learning Japanese.

You are telling me I have to not see my friends, not participate in society, not make NEW friends except for with people who speak Japanese…

Screw.

That.

Noise.

This reads like some sort of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry Language God”. Don’t watch that movie on the weekend w/ your friends, YOU’LL FAIL!
Don’t chat with people in English… YOU’LL FAIL!

That entire post was about as demotivational as possible. Also, a ton of hogwash, as you yourself said that you had “a life, a job”, etc etc etc.

By: AD

AD — Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:19:57 +0000

It’s called opportunity cost.