Category: Tips & Tricks
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5 Ways to Set Up Your Language Immersion Environment Today
In language learning, the environment around you is just as important as the tools that you have with you. Vice versa, the tools you have with you are just as important to your language learning environment. Keep reading for 5 ways to get your immersion environment set up today!
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Ask questions for answers you already know
One habit that I’ve picked up is asking questions for answers that you already know. While that sounds a bit silly, it’s really great practice for the variety of answers a question can have. At the same time, it’s good way to lead into other questions. For example, even if I know how to get…
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MCBs and Anki 2.0
This post is a reflection on my experiences with MCBs, mentioned by Jeff弁 over at his blog. You can read all about them here and in this follow-up post, both worth checking out in their entirety. MCB’s, to quote Jeff are: The general idea with these cards is that, like MCDs, you have a card…
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Blogs in Taiwan (and using them to your advantage)
One thing I have noticed since coming to Taiwan and wasting time online studying for graduate school has been the incredible amount of blogs available to read written by Taiwanese on a wide variety of topics. There was a blog post I had read about a year ago or so, which I can’t find now,…
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Inverse Timeboxing
Whew, okay, two entries literally right after each other but I had to bring this up as I just finished my Skritter reps for the day and came upon this idea. Okay, so generally when we talk about timeboxing, it’s usually doing things in decreasing increments (10min-5min-4min-3min-2min-1min etc). I actually find that to be a rather annoying…
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Instaconnected
In my rather fanatical devotion to connecting technology with my language learning, I keep trying to find new ways to remain connected even when there is no internet or, say, on a commute. How do you keep yourself reading, even if you don’t have books to carry (or that you want to carry)? Lately, I’ve…
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標楷體 on a Mac (Traditional Chinese font)
Apple computers–no matter what your opinion of them–are becoming increasingly popular. While they have excellent language handling (the ability to switch languages in an instant is pretty amazing) there’s still a few drawbacks. One I ran into with Chinese was a missing font–one that is used in many documents in Taiwan, especially academic papers. The…
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Cloze Deletion Kanji and a word on Heisig
In reply to this comment in my previous post: maugrassia Interesting. I wonder how we’d do it in Japanese? Indeed, I had thought about this while typing up the previous post so I may as well get off my butt and write about it! Anyway.. Let’s take an entry like this: ♪004 WELCOME!♪ Welcome to…
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Cloze Deletion Hanzi
Farting around on Twitter, as I am wont to do, I noticed a tweet by Khatz saying: @ajatt Khatzumoto Possible future #SRS hack/tweak: learning kanji using cloze deletions…hmmm.. Which brought to mind the current method that I use for character cloze deletions! Now, I should say, I don’t really use my old Heisig “Remember the…
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Google Blogsearch
The principles of sentence hacking and using the SRS as a study method, and strongly influenced by this AMAZINGLY GENIUS idea by a handsome guy in Japan, suggests using Twitter as a dictionary and source for original L2 sentences. Genius. Anyway, I have a further extension on this great idea provided through Google. I just…