I wonder what was the "Japanese Learning Hack" was in the 20s....

Yeah I don't think RTK is such a big deal but the internet certainly is because it makes it so easy to immerse yourself in real Japanese. Think Skype, chatrooms, japanese TV, podcasts, etc etc. People (generally people who only speak one language...) often say you need to spend time in the country to learn to speak a language naturally which is bollocks nowadays but I think would have been much more true before the internet...

I did most of my Japanese learning before most of the good resources were available on the Internet. You just use actual books instead.

yudantaiteki Wrote:I did most of my Japanese learning before most of the good resources were available on the Internet. You just use actual books instead.

Just curious, what did you do for listening and speaking? And finding out how people actually naturally speak the language (rather than the Japanese in your textbook)? I suppose you could try to find Japanese people in your area and try to order in DVDs and stuff. I'm probably too used to having all the Japanese content I could want a click away on the internet but it seems like it would be really hard to learn beyond textbook Japanese.

I went to Japan.

It's definitely harder, I'll give you that.

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Hard to say how my studies would be impacted by lack of Internet. It comes with both valuable resources and costly distractions.

But you don't absolutely NEED a whole lot of resources to learn a language. This book: http://www.amazon.com/Polyglot-How-I-Lea...B0029J576W is quite enlightening on how few resources you actually need to learn languages, even ones with an alien writing system like Chinese or Japanese.

I'd say one good textbook, one novel, and a hundred or so hours of radio recordings would be something I could get pretty far on.

Stansfield123 Wrote:But you don't absolutely NEED a whole lot of resources to learn a language. This book: http://www.amazon.com/Polyglot-How-I-Lea...B0029J576W is quite enlightening on how few resources you actually need to learn languages, even ones with an alien writing system like Chinese or Japanese.

This book, worth a read, is also available for free as a pdf at http://www.tesl-ej.org/wordpress/books/