Ashiba 足場
A website to help you start reading manga in Japanese.
Studying for recognition vs. reproduction and making use of mnemonic associations. Know Your Language-Learning Goal Many people who try to study Japanese fail, at least on their first attempt. …
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Perhaps no study tool receives as much conflicting, competing, and heated advice as that surrounding the use of flashcards and spaced repetition systems (SRSs). However, using (and …
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We all understand intuitively that subjecting our body to small “shocks” will cause it to grow and better handle future shocks. For instance, we get that lifting weights will cause our muscles to grow …
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If you want to learn Japanese as efficiently as possible, you will want to start inputting Japanese “in the wild” as soon as possible. Inputting is the only path to fluency, and the sooner …
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