I remember I read this article of the same fellow (isn't he a user here?) when I started studying japanese.
I remember it was a lot demotivational to read it at that time. Then I read the JALUP article and I understood it has an ironic tone. Thanks God I didn't listened to it and continued studying Japanese and now I'm reading light novels without much effort, which was my main goal. And I'm far from being a person who studies a lot. In retrospect, I'm even shoked at my progress considering how little I studied.
Now, we all know the Japanese language is really hard, and it requires time and effort. Blogs like AJATT tends to make you think it's easier than it is, but then "ruleof7" blog does the opposite thing, with even more exaggeration.
I mentioned that articled which was supposed to be ironic, but now I'm reading some other articles and they are all the same in tone. And if that way of writing is supposed to be irriverent and sarcastic, I don't see it. I see a forced attitude which make me think it is trying too hard to appear as an iconoclast which is the only one who knows the truth and all those people and their methods are all sh*t but we are too stupid to see it.
How can you review a method and say:
PROBABLY. What is he talking about?
wow, such disrespectful, much rebel.
Any evidence to support this?
I think many of the things he says are even true, like the stereotypical view many japanese learners enthusiasts have of japan and japanese people. But then he makes a stereotypical description of the opposite view, like all japanese people are racist and so on.
Or that in order to make japanese friends you need to study the english language and not the japanese one. I don't know, but for me to make friends mean to be able to speak to them about things like feelings, hobbies and so on, and I don't know how many japanese people know english that well. Maybe for "make friends" he means "find hot girls to f*ck"? I don't know lol
No offense to the blog owner, only my point of view
I remember it was a lot demotivational to read it at that time. Then I read the JALUP article and I understood it has an ironic tone. Thanks God I didn't listened to it and continued studying Japanese and now I'm reading light novels without much effort, which was my main goal. And I'm far from being a person who studies a lot. In retrospect, I'm even shoked at my progress considering how little I studied.
Now, we all know the Japanese language is really hard, and it requires time and effort. Blogs like AJATT tends to make you think it's easier than it is, but then "ruleof7" blog does the opposite thing, with even more exaggeration.
I mentioned that articled which was supposed to be ironic, but now I'm reading some other articles and they are all the same in tone. And if that way of writing is supposed to be irriverent and sarcastic, I don't see it. I see a forced attitude which make me think it is trying too hard to appear as an iconoclast which is the only one who knows the truth and all those people and their methods are all sh*t but we are too stupid to see it.
How can you review a method and say:
Quote:"Okay, well, at least it’ll teach you how to write the kanji, right? Eh, even that probably won’t happen."
PROBABLY. What is he talking about?
Quote:"because he was incredibly stoned"
wow, such disrespectful, much rebel.
Quote:"And to be completely clear, I really doubt James Heisig “learned” Japanese, at least to any appreciable level.
Any evidence to support this?
I think many of the things he says are even true, like the stereotypical view many japanese learners enthusiasts have of japan and japanese people. But then he makes a stereotypical description of the opposite view, like all japanese people are racist and so on.
Or that in order to make japanese friends you need to study the english language and not the japanese one. I don't know, but for me to make friends mean to be able to speak to them about things like feelings, hobbies and so on, and I don't know how many japanese people know english that well. Maybe for "make friends" he means "find hot girls to f*ck"? I don't know lol
No offense to the blog owner, only my point of view
Edited: 2016-06-05, 11:22 am