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Continue reading →: Sharing some CSS, Javascript codes for ANKI
Sharing some CSS, Javascript codes for ANKI pastebin link ( I was surprised they did the song for a Conan movie. I only watched some Conan movies in Japanese just to learn mandarin since the subs match the dub. But the movies I saw were solid movies with a plot…
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Continue reading →: 3 Fatal Reasons Why You SHOULDN’T Be Taking Notes When Studying
Originally posted on Master How To Learn: Updated version TL;DR: 3 reasons: ignoring the opportunity cost when far superior methods are present, misaligned actions with goals, and busywork as useful work. My Definitions: By taking notes I mean what you do during your own study sessions: creating notes by summarizing…
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Continue reading →: Another blast from the past: Learning how to read Japanese
http://daigotorena.moo.jp/lesson/bushu-hen1.htm I’ve pictured this scenario where a white person is walking around with a Japanese person and the white guy asks the Japanese guy what does that say and the thing they’re pointing to is scribble aka archaic writing. Reading archaic writing is a skill that I never developed from…
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Continue reading →: Making PARALLEL TEXT with DeepL
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eUobE8JJ8gY ❖ ← type hisigata in Japanese to get it! The screenshot is one of my earlier attempts before I optimized it. I like having the translation under the Chinese and I like having an indent before the rhombus. optimized example: I’m using this to learn from a bizarre chinese cartoon…
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Continue reading →: Subs2srs + Anki plugins + Dictionaries + Autohotkey for MANDARIN
autohotkey at work with shortcut left arrow. pasting the text of field 1 into deepL then pasting the translation into the field. nowadays there’s also a deepl plugin for anki for generating trnasltaions. haven’t used it though autohotkey at work. looking up the word via double click on lingoes and…
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Continue reading →: Blast from the past: YG TREASURE BOX
aka the YG DUNGEON according to kpop fans because YG artists don’t make much music! I think in the first episode YG describes the treasure box and if you replace those words with dungeon, the sentence still makes sense. So I forgot to post this post. I watched yg treasure…
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Continue reading →: Lang-8: Part 2
another entry about the now defunct lang-8. it’s not defunct to me, japanese peeps still roaming there being super helpful. i wanted to share my entries over the years to see how much I proved or stayed stagnant over the years I think I started learning japnaese in summer 2007.…
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Continue reading →: Reading Korean is a nightmare
I read this Korean ebook months and months ago ( I think it’s 공지영… too lazy to check. I’m never gonna read another book by this lady? ) which was actually a collection of short stories and this one short story was a real nightmare to read. I was hopeful…
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Continue reading →: Unpopular opinion: The Little Prince royally sucks
FRENCH My goal isn’t to be fluent or to get good very quickly. I know how to learn a language while being inconsistent/sporadic in my efforts. I’ve had many half-baked attempts at learning french since 2015?? 2016?? I’m okay with it since there’s only so many hours in a day…
