"Continuous Improvement For Your Japanese"
Your First Monolingual Dictionary As you progress in your language acquisition journey, one useful tactic to really grow you vocabulary fast is to switch to a monolingual dictionary, …
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I have a goal of some day being able to teach programming and machine learning in Japanese, so I wanted to immerse myself in the vocabulary and expressions related to those. I thought it might be …
For those who don't know me, I've worked in the machine-learning field for decades. I've seen many new technologies come and go, each promising to be the next "silver bullet" that's going to change …
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"Make It Stick" is one of my favorite books on meta-learning and the science behind the most successful learning strategies. In today's post, I'll share a few of the key points and how they apply to …
Keep from drowning in your conversations Have you ever had a conversation or language exchange that went something like this: A: Hi, why are you studying Japanese? B: I like anime. A: How …
One of the most common challenges for students of Japanese is when they lift their heads out of classroom-oriented materials and begin to engage with real-life Japanese language, whether that be …
