Monthly Archives: August 2010

When Your Listening and Subs Don’t Match

By Ryan | Published: August 16, 2010
So I recently got a comment from an article by a man named Charles that merited a reply from me, but I think it deserves an article of its own.  I’ll paraphrase here: What do you do when what’s said and what’s written on the same language subs are different? Excellent question.  Particularly excellent because for most [...]
Posted in Language, Language Learning Techniques, SRS | 33 Comments

Ask Ryan: Going Monolingual and Trusting Yourself

By Ryan | Published: August 9, 2010
Today we have an e-mail from Alan, who has managed to get through what I think is the hardest part of learning Japanese: kanji.  Now Alan is kind of worried about where to go from here.  Here’s what he writes: Ryan, I’d be a liar if I claimed to be a long-term reader of your blog- I [...]
Posted in Ask Ryan!, Getting Literate (Kanji), Japanese, Language Learning Techniques, Motivation | 61 Comments

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