Ashiba 足場
A website to help you start reading manga in Japanese.
Using Minimum Viable Effort to Break the Activity-Atrophy Cycle It’s all too easy to fall off the wagon when it comes to keeping up habits that you genuinely care about for self-improvement. If …
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Inputting a Language, or Training the Neural Network That Is Your Brain If you hang around language learning forums long enough, you’ll hear the phrase “inputting a language.” Most of the time that …
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Many beginner and intermediate language learners confuse the difference between studying and learning and this sets back their progress by months, and sometimes even years. So what is the …
Lack of time is the most common excuse for not making progress toward your language goals (or goals in general for that matter). But even if you’re very busy, the truth is you have plenty of time to …
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As I have written before, there are three major obstacles to navigate when you embark on your journey to become fluent in Japanese. I’ve discussed how to handle fear and pain. …
The language-learning world is obsessed with fluency. And why shouldn’t it be? It’s thrilling to see a non-native speaker engage in perfect conversation with a native speaker. You think, “wow, I want …
