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30 Days of Becoming a Better Japanese Learner
What is 30 days worth? What if 30 days could save you 30 years of Japanese study? That’s the idea I started with when writing this. You, specifically, might not save 30 years, but you will save 1, 5, or even 10 years (easy) by following the strategies laid out in this ebook. Are you studying Japanese the best possible way? Are you learning vocab at insane rates? Are you memorizing kanji ten times faster than your peers? This ebook is formatted to cover 30 days of ideas and tasks, all of which have the goal of making you (way) better at learning Japanese. Through each chapter, you will learn:
Why: Learn why you should do something differently to learn more effectively.
What: Learn what you have to do to use that day’s strategy to be a better Japanese learner
Action: Actually do what’s in each chapter to improve your Japanese learning right now.
In thirty days you’ll go from Japanese learning newb to a Japanese learning pro. You’ll get everything you need in order to learn Japanese more effectively than 99% of the Japanese students out there guaranteed (or you should ask for a refund).
Why: Learn why you should do something differently to learn more effectively.
What: Learn what you have to do to use that day’s strategy to be a better Japanese learner
Action: Actually do what’s in each chapter to improve your Japanese learning right now.
In thirty days you’ll go from Japanese learning newb to a Japanese learning pro. You’ll get everything you need in order to learn Japanese more effectively than 99% of the Japanese students out there guaranteed (or you should ask for a refund).
109 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2012
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October 23, 2018
Super helpful and inspirational.
February 4, 2013
If you're reading this blog, then you're either interested in Japan or studying in Japan. Either way, it's probably not a big leap of faith to say that you're interested in learning Japanese. Well, so am I! (Ok fine, I have to learn Japanese). But a while back, when Koichi from Tofugu had an offer on this book, I grabbed it straight away.
And you know what? This book is suitable for everyone. It's aimed at beginners, but there are things that even 'advanced' learners can learn. The book is a thirty day program that aims to help you build good habits when it comes to learning Japanese, so that you'll continue progressing and not get stuck.
If you're the sort that's self-studying, you should get this book straightaway. I really think that you master a language, you need to study it constantly, and this book is going to help with that. It has really good examples (具体的 gutaiteki) of what you should be doing. You can put your own spin on the excercises, or you can just follow them as it is.
One of the biggest takeaways for me was the discovery of Lang-8. I've always heard about it, but I didn't bother finding out more. But after reading the chapter on it, I signed up for an account - to practice Chinese (most of my posts are in Chinese), although I do occasionally post in Japanese.
Which brings me to my next point - this book will help anyone learning a language. I think that you can probably use the techniques here to learn any language, although again, this book is aimed at Japanese learners. When I was reading it, I was actually wondering how I could turn this into Chinese (especially the bit about passive learning).
This is probably one of the most useful books for language learning. It's not about the grammar or the vocab (but it does teach you how to study them), it's about the skills to learn, and that's probably the most important element of your study.
First posted at With Love from Japan, Eustacia
And you know what? This book is suitable for everyone. It's aimed at beginners, but there are things that even 'advanced' learners can learn. The book is a thirty day program that aims to help you build good habits when it comes to learning Japanese, so that you'll continue progressing and not get stuck.
If you're the sort that's self-studying, you should get this book straightaway. I really think that you master a language, you need to study it constantly, and this book is going to help with that. It has really good examples (具体的 gutaiteki) of what you should be doing. You can put your own spin on the excercises, or you can just follow them as it is.
One of the biggest takeaways for me was the discovery of Lang-8. I've always heard about it, but I didn't bother finding out more. But after reading the chapter on it, I signed up for an account - to practice Chinese (most of my posts are in Chinese), although I do occasionally post in Japanese.
Which brings me to my next point - this book will help anyone learning a language. I think that you can probably use the techniques here to learn any language, although again, this book is aimed at Japanese learners. When I was reading it, I was actually wondering how I could turn this into Chinese (especially the bit about passive learning).
This is probably one of the most useful books for language learning. It's not about the grammar or the vocab (but it does teach you how to study them), it's about the skills to learn, and that's probably the most important element of your study.
First posted at With Love from Japan, Eustacia
December 19, 2012
Yeah, I cheated and didn't take 30 days to read this like I was supposed to (sorry, Koichi!), but I feel okay about that--I'll definitely go back to this when I've had some time to prepare a few things. This book has a bunch of really great suggestions for ways to study Japanese and for ways to make studying Japanese easier, although, really, most of these suggestions would apply just as well to any other language, and is definitely worth a look even if you're focusing on French or Italian or Icelandic. For Japanese language learners though, there are some great resources listed, as far as online textbooks, dictionaries, and practice sites go, and Koichi's casual way of writing has a way of making even reading about studying fun. And really, you could look at this whole book as a list of ideas for tricking your brain into thinking studying is fun as well. I'm certainly looking forward to trying many of these methods out. Anyway, definitely recommended if you're wanting to study Japanese but have had trouble motivating yourself or sticking with it or making progress.
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