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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... CureDolly wrote: "@Danchan I'd be fascinated to know why Heisig-sensei is wrong philosophically." That was me being a bit facetious of course. I wouldn't want to say publicly that Heisig is "wrong", ... |
Danchan | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 4,118 | 2016-06-09, 1:11 am | ||
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Thread: Why are some people in the Japanese self learning community so down on Heisig? Post: RE: Why are some people in the Japanese self learn... I read that too actually. I stopped myself from commenting. I think Ken already knows what I would say. I'm an anti class, pro anki person too. And he is the opposite. Core ajatt tenements all the wa... |
Danchan | Remembering the Kanji | 61 | 4,118 | 2016-06-08, 5:09 am | ||
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Thread: I want the truth about teaching English in Japan. Post: RE: I want the truth about teaching English in Jap... (2012-09-04, 12:36 am)oyajijeff Wrote: I've been living in and teaching English in Japan for the past 18 years. I have advanced degrees in English and Linguistics. So...I'm qualified to say what I'm... |
Danchan | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 65 | 24,901 | 2016-02-23, 5:26 am | ||
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Thread: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself Post: RE: I've failed...and I've been lying to myself @supermancampus, you can do it! Like has been said, it really does help if you take the long view, accept failure as a stepping stone, and just focus on being consistent. It -will- pay off. Experiment... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 60 | 7,056 | 2016-01-30, 10:12 pm | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? (2016-01-22, 10:42 am)ariariari Wrote: @danchan just wanted to drop in and say that I really enjoyed reading your essay. I think you write really well, and that you should consider writing a book ab... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-23, 12:37 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? (2016-01-22, 5:56 am)Zgarbas Wrote: Your post-grad experience sounds really weird, Dan-chan. There's so much pressure to publish in English since that's the only language that gets taken into accoun... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-22, 7:48 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? Hey no kidding. That's some coincidence! I doubt we've ever met because I left the dorm at the start of 2013, and graduated at the start of 2014, but we probably know a lot of the same people. Good to... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-22, 4:38 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? The trick is to use Japanese to augment some high value skill like corporate law or software engineering. Japanese by itself really isn't worth anything much to speak of. |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-19, 11:00 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? (2016-01-10, 7:17 pm)eightyd Wrote: hey dan, i really appreciate you sharing this. i remember your success stories from the ajatt forums from way back in the day. actually im currently working in ja... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-11, 12:42 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? Quote:But I have seen in my life that passion was always sort of double edged. On the one hand it could lead to creative endeavours, on the other hand it often had an aspect of escaping / dumbing down... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-07, 11:16 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? (2016-01-07, 12:29 am)Dudeist Wrote: (2016-01-06, 11:25 pm)Danchan Wrote: This just made adjusting to -reality- in Japan when I moved there - which is I find in many ways to be a quite grim realit... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-07, 4:53 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: RE: Where's Khatzumoto? Well that's an alarming turn of events. The way this has all panned out strikes me in a very personal way. As I've written before in this thread, AJATT was the catalyst for me trying out hard-core i... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2016-01-06, 11:25 pm | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: RE: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) The benefits of Kanji have been noted already in this thread, or in links people have posted. If you don't care to read them, why bother arguing? Kanji were a giant pain in the ass, until they becam... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,118 | 2015-11-24, 11:59 pm | ||
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Thread: How do you consider about Japanese？ Post: RE: How do you consider about Japanese？ As above, these are generalities but... People here have to "know their place" within the order of things. That starts with if you are a man or a woman. If you are older or younger. Senior or inferio... |
Danchan | General discussion | 14 | 3,662 | 2015-11-16, 12:07 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) yudantaiteki Wrote:I do want to briefly comment on non-linguistic misconception. It is a myth that the idea of abandoning kanji is an attempt by Westerners to impose Western culture on Japan. The idea... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,118 | 2015-10-29, 7:21 am | ||
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Thread: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) Post: Kanji Abolitionism (漢字廃止論) I recently read a really nice book which covered this topic in some depth in one of the chapters 『日本語がほろびるとき』. Japan did come very close to romanization. At one point it came down to a U.S. occupatio... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 121 | 12,118 | 2015-10-28, 6:18 am | ||
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Thread: Are You An Above Average Language Learner? Post: Are You An Above Average Language Learner? Systems are important. Very important. Nothing that already hasn't been said before of course (ahem: http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...t-you-free, http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com/blo...-... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 27 | 3,355 | 2015-10-09, 4:13 am | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. PotbellyPig Wrote:Danchan Wrote:I watched a few hundred hours of TV with no subtitles (I stuck paper over the bottom of the screen nice and thick initially because I only had subbed stuff online to wa... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,417 | 2015-09-08, 4:41 pm | ||
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Thread: Why you can read but can't listen. Post: Why you can read but can't listen. I watched a few hundred hours of TV with no subtitles (I stuck paper over the bottom of the screen nice and thick initially because I only had subbed stuff online to watch), and listened to a few thou... |
Danchan | The Japanese language | 54 | 7,417 | 2015-09-08, 12:28 am | ||
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Thread: How Many SRS Reviews in a Day? Post: How Many SRS Reviews in a Day? I'm adding 20 new per day at the moment for Mandarin, with 230+ reviews per day. Until ten or so days ago I was at 10 new per day, so my reviews are currently climbing. I think they will stabilize at ... |
Danchan | Learning resources | 7 | 1,234 | 2015-08-31, 12:32 am | ||
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Thread: Manga with good/interesting Japanese? Post: Manga with good/interesting Japanese? Vinland Saga. |
Danchan | General discussion | 8 | 1,996 | 2015-08-27, 10:43 pm | ||
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Thread: MBA in Japanese - Overseas/Japan Post: MBA in Japanese - Overseas/Japan ryuudou Wrote:Those numbers look very high to me if you want to get hired Very high rate of job securement for graduates. The problem is what happens after you get hired... |
Danchan | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 2,484 | 2015-08-25, 4:21 am | ||
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Thread: MBA in Japanese - Overseas/Japan Post: MBA in Japanese - Overseas/Japan TheVinster Wrote:So any advice? I'm pretty much set on living in Japan as soon as reasonably possible, but nothing is certain. For family reasons? Have you lived in Japan before? I'd recommend getting... |
Danchan | JLPT, Jobs & College in Japan | 14 | 2,484 | 2015-08-25, 12:53 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? buonaparte Wrote:Ah, and K. said that classes suck. Language textbooks suck. Grammar sucks. And that's absolute nonsense. I'm very happy to avoid Chinese classes or textbooks. I use some learner mate... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2015-08-22, 2:41 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? buonaparte Wrote:I watched hell of a lot of Japanese movies (I didn't intend to learn Japanese then) and picked up plenty of expressions, some quite complicated ... EVERYTHING he said was stupid, st... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2015-08-21, 10:17 pm | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? As dt said, it wasn't "inspiration" so much as concrete explanations about what I was doing wrong, and how to go about fixing it, grounded in an understanding of what language is and how human beings ... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2015-08-21, 10:43 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? Today I was reading through a lot of the articles on http://www.hackingchinese.com/ after not looking at it for a few years. It's really been fleshed out quite a lot, with a bunch of nice guest posts ... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2015-08-21, 7:28 am | ||
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Thread: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You? Post: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You? buonaparte Wrote:NO. I'm at least a triple unbeliever: I don't believe in SRS, Heisig, and furigana. Description http://users.bestweb.net/~siom/martian_m...c346179174 Resources http://users.bestweb.n... |
Danchan | General discussion | 44 | 7,030 | 2015-08-18, 12:27 am | ||
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Thread: Where's Khatzumoto? Post: Where's Khatzumoto? [Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8WLuvxXzU] The above was released on February this year, but it seems it was actually recorded in around 2010. In the second video Khatz mentions Ajatt + lik... |
Danchan | Off topic | 529 | 103,039 | 2015-08-17, 6:56 pm | ||
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Thread: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You? Post: Has Learning Japanese Been Worth it to You? I'm kind of surprised at how many positive replies there have been to this question. I'd have to give a more mixed response. I enjoyed the journey of learning this language very much. Especially whe... |
Danchan | General discussion | 44 | 7,030 | 2015-08-17, 4:37 am | ||
