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I wonder what studying Japanese was like in the 70s-80s. I wonder what people did to become "fluent" in the language. I somehow imagine someone sitting at a table with large Aviator style glasses writing every Kanji 1000 times each.
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Candle flickering on the table, monocle dangling from his belt...
Katakana's a bitch when your quill pen goes blotchy.
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Don't touch Alfonso. We used it waaaay back then in my undergraduate Japanese class, not the 1970s but the late 1990s. I cannot remember a single thing from it, other than the bottom line: I took two years of Japanese and couldn't produce a single sentence that didn't sound ridiculously wooden, and I understood absolutely nothing when I went to Japan for the first time, and I got completely turned off learning Japanese for over ten years.
It ought be kept in library storage in case someone re-invents this as a new "theory" of language learning, so that the person in question can be whacked over the head with it.
