Monthly Archives: July, 2009
AJATT QRG Review – All Japanese All The Time Quick Reference Guide
Khatzumoto finally released the much anticipated, by his readers, Quick Reference Guide to AJATT. As an avid reader of his site and practitioner of AJATT, with my own twist, I was excited to be able to buy this and give it a look.
As a note, like he does, if you read his whole site [...]
Why Anki is Best of Breed for SRS
There are many SRS applications people can use to memorize things, but Anki is the best for a variety of reasons. Before, I do a list of reasons some other alternatives for SRS are Mnemosyne, SuperMemo, Surusu, Smart.FM, and even ReadTheKanji.com. I have used all these besides supermemo, and anki is really the [...]
Object Placement – Kore, Sore, Are (これ、それ、あれ) – Video
When you get involved in talking about objects around you its useless unless there is a way to reference things without knowing what the object is exactly. There are 3 main words we use to accomplish this. I’ll briefly hit on these then show you have you watch a video that briefly shows you.
これ (kore) [...]
Learn.DumbOtaku.com Updates – autocomplete
http://learn.dumbotaku.com
If you have used the learn app you have probably been annoyed with how it looks and the typing in Japanese only. Well, those two problems are solved for the most part. Plus, a new verb type is added.
Autocomplete – Well sort-of, one of the biggest things about the application you have had to use [...]
Figuring Out Those Unknown Kanji in Your Non-Digital Book
Kanji is a pain in the butt to look up on the web. Especially if you don’t know the reading to be able to figure out the kanji to add to a dictionary. Well Microsoft IME Pad to the rescue, and you thought Microsoft was useless.
The current manga I am going through right now I [...]
Importance of Ever Changing Goals
Updating your goals and sub goals is very important to be successful. By doing so you change learn new ways and new approaches to thing. This also helps you to avoid slumps and the mundane. Often times we tend to stop learning or progressing simply because we get tired of the same old thing. We [...]
5 Ways to Use Subtitles to Learn Japanese
I think it is possible to use subtitles to help learn the Japanese Language. I think it is entirely possible to use it as a tool to help with listening comprehension when it comes vocabulary, and maybe even so far as figure out some grammar too. It is just another fun way to have fun [...]
