A little place for learning languages
By thomas on Dec 20, 2007 in Project Mayhem | 5 Comments
Chapter 5 of Fight Club is another scene from the testicular cancer support group. At the start of the scene Thomas, one of the members, is telling the group how his ex-wife had her first child (with her new husband). In English, we usually say that a woman “has” a baby and that […]
By thomas on Dec 15, 2007 in Japanese | 5 Comments
I mentioned a few days ago that I finished my first Japanese manga, Doraemon. Normally when I read something in Japanese, I input some sentences into my SRS. I didn’t do this with Doraemon. I was 500+ cards behind in my SRS and I wasn’t ready for more. Well, now my […]
By thomas on Dec 13, 2007 in SRS | 4 Comments
For Japanese, I use Anki as my SRS. It’s a great piece of software for studying Japanese. Here are a few reasons why:
It guesses kanji (Chinese character) readings automatically. This saves me from having to manually type in readings.
It has a lot of cool graphs and stats you can use to analyse […]
By thomas on Dec 11, 2007 in Japanese | 7 Comments
I finished my first Japanese comic (manga) last week. Most Japanese learners jump into manga pretty early, but I didn’t because comics aren’t that interesting to me. Everyone says they are good study aids though, so I finally gave in and bought the first book of Doraemon. To be honest, I wanted […]
