*Huff* *Puff* So here… I am, lifting, breathing hard, pushing and sweating. Man, this stuff isn’t easy… But I’m definitely getting better, I think to myself. Actually, this is a story about me at the gym. We’ll tie it into language learning in a bit! I’ve been at it for a good year or two.…
Read More What Will Take You From Language Beginner to Advanced?There’s a really good tactic to learning to speak and understand modern Hebrew conversation. And it consists of four things… Hearing real Hebrew conversation examples – audio or podcasts – first. Reading the translation/transliteration after to understand what you’ve heard Re-listening now that you know the meaning. Creating a playlist of the these conversations ’til…
Read More Understand Hebrew Conversation: Listen, Read, Repeat with PlaylistsLearning Kanji is a good sign that you’re a serious learner, well on your way to improving your Japanese and not diddling around forever in romaji and anime. People say you need to know 1,945-2,000 Joyo Kanji in order to comfortably read. So, how do you learn all that Kanji, Kanji, Kanji? Here’s a big…
Read More Japanese Pro-Tips: 7 Different Ways to Learn KanjiHello Junkie! So, there was an interesting audio experiment done. And this can seriously help you learn Japanese by “listening” first. Here’s the basic premise of this 50 second experiment. A person listens to a “garbled” audio message that they don’t understand. Then, they get it’s true meaning. And then, they begin to understand what…
Read More 50 Second Experiment Shows: Hear Japanese First So You Can Master ItThis really isn’t a language learning hack. It’s damn good advice. When you start learning a language, any language, one of the first few things you need to do is, not run out and buy yourself a book, but… “Prepare Your Elevator Pitch or Self Introduction” Why is this so important? Because who are you?…
Read More Beginner? Start With Your Elevator Pitch or Self-Introduction.