AJATT (Khatzumoto)

[Video] Won't Japanese Subtitles Hurt My Japanese? Aren' They a Crutch

【Patreon限定ビデオ】UAG2020-1

[Audio] [Q&A] How Do I Get Back on the Japanese Language Horse After a Hiatus?

Jess hits us with a question:

"You know what, my language journey has kinda stalled. Not just because of COVID-19 but just sputtered out since leaving Japan. It’s sad because I was doing we...

[Audio] [Q&A] Of Course Timeboxing and Radical Prioritization Matters But What About Balance and Breadth?

In response to my grand audio masterpiece, "The Real Meaning of "Get Your Priorities Straight", thus said Tyler:

"This [radical prioritization] is  a very important concept, but per...

[Audio] Should I Do Lazy Kanji or Old School Heisig? "葛藤"

* First some, definitions: Lazy Kanji = Writing and Recognition. Old School Heisig  = Production.

* You don't have to choose! Have that cake and eat it, too, son! DO BOTH!

* For 30...

How To Turn a YouTube Video into a Permanent Learning Tool [i.e. a Series of Awesome Multimedia SRS MCD/MXD Cards]

1. Pick a YouTube video on a topic that interests you intensely, that really grabs you (whether or not you fully or even partially understand it). What matters is your curiosity, not your comprehen...

[Video] [Raw] [Unedited] [NoFilter] On the Subject of Intellectual Laziness:Why You're Afraid of Using Your Mind and How to Do It While Having Fun

* People like sports and simple, mindless labor

* Because those things have clarity -- clear rules, clear goals 

* Complex things are complex because they lack this clarity  2020-06-17 05:07:52 +0000 UTC View Post

[Audio]The Myth of Easy and Hard Languages (Relative to Your Native Language)

* No language is easy for anyone

* No language is hard for anyone

* All human languages are equally easy and hard for everyone, just easy and hard in different ways, at different points...

[SRS MCD/MXD Base Card] Manga-Inspired Natural Japanese Dialog With Audio | Brooding Basement Boy

[FRONT OF CARD]

Situation: A mother finds her son sitting alone in the dark in the basement　and expresses her concern for him.

母：あんた！こんな所で何してるの？！ 2020-06-10 01:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post

[SRS MCD/MXD Base Card] Manga-Inspired Natural Japanese Dialog With Audio | Doxxing Vigilantes

This is an experiment we're doing right now but we might look into expanding it further.

[FRONT OF  CARD] 

自警団員その一（先輩）：お前はどうなんだ？世�...

[Audio] The Real Meaning of "Get Your Priorities Straight"

* The real meaning of prior(ity) is not "important": it's just "first".

* So getting your priorities straight means doing "first things first" -- doing that which is first in importance f...

[Bonus][Audio] A Language Is a Bank Account

A language is a bank account

Input = deposits

Output = withdrawals

Guess which has to come first?

Guess how much more depositing you're gonna need to do if you wanna make bi...

[Audio] You are never too busy to learn a language

* You are always learning or reinforcing a language, even if it's just your one native language.

* The only reason to every put off starting with an L2 is because it would be an Ln, where...

[Audio] SRS Pacing, Why Your Productivity Actually DROPS When You Suddenly Get A Lot of Free Time and What to Do About It

SRS is a sprint sport. Reps are supposed to be done in short bursts, 1-5 minutes at a time.

Long marathons are not desirable.

Long marathons are not necessary.

Long marathons are ...

[Audio] How Do I Get Started With This AJATT Noise? + Why Time on Project (Years of Study or Even Hours Per Day) Is Literally The Worst Metric For Language Study and What to Use Instead

WHERE TO START?

Immersion.

Typically in the form of for-native-by-native (FUNBUN) media exposure.

This is literally and figuratively the alpha and omega.

First th...

[Audio][Q&A] When Reading, How Should I Deal With Being Able to Understand Every Word in A Sentence Yet Being Unable to Understand the Sentence as a Whole?

FanxyChildxDean asks [question edited for spelling, grammar and flow]:

"So I've been doing AJATT for 7 months now and my vocabulary keeps getting better and better. But lately I've been r...

[Audio] The GoldenEye Principle: Flow, Dopamine, Spirituality and How to Make Everything As Fun as Video Games and Multiplayer Bedroom Sports

"The GoldenEye was a fictional electro-magnetic orbital weapon developed by the Soviet Union during the Cold War." [GoldenEye (weapon) | James Bond Wiki | Fandom] 2020-05-26 02:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

[Audio] [Q&A] If English is Not My L1, Should I Use It To Learn Kanji Or Not?

Birgit, a young German woman with impeccable taste in language acquisition methods wonders:

"Hi Khatz, [I know you're] not my boy and not my mothers either (maybe?), 

But I have a ...

[Audio] [Q&A] What's the best way to find and collect a sufficient number of SRS cards, including natural for-native audio, for sentences you don't yet understand?

Khatz-「When using audio with your SRS cards, it's important that you choose natural, for-native, by-native audio that's both interesting to you and (preferably) delivered with intense, even hyper...

[Video] [Raw] [Unedited] [NoFilter] Happiness, Gamification, Analog Thoughts and Digital Actions

Enjoy this rambling unedited video on topics of interest to the hip digital youth of today!

[Audio] [Q&A] How do I get unstuck and stay consistent and committed to studying Mandarin?

Hi, Khatzumoto. My name is Ronald.

I am living in Taiwan and studying engineering. 

I feel stuck because I don't have a language partner to talk to. 

And I feel stuck be...

[Audio] [Q&A] How do I learn to read Chinese characters in Mandarin?

Kyle asks:

"Hi Khatz, 

You are so handsome and have the best thighs; they're not too thick at all; I like that you smell of cocoa butter as well, please keep that up. 2020-05-21 04:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post

[Edited]Q&A: Trouble in Mandarin Land

The audio was choppy on the last upload so here is a new one.

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Hi, Khatzumoto. My name is Ronald.

I am living in Taiwan and studying...

The Problem With Grammar Rules: Language Isn’t Physics

One of the many problems with grammar rules — and perhaps one of the largest — is that they have exceptions.

So by the time you’ve memorized the rule, you’ve already spotted an ...

Only Solve Small Problems

Don't overwhelm yourself physically (or, more importantly) mentally with the grandness of the task in front of you. That is to misuse mental abstraction. Only solve small problems. Everything small...

The Problem with Conspiracy Theories…

…isn’t that they’re not true: it’s that they’re not useful. Not actionable. Not empowering. Not falsifiable.

“Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for ...

2020-04-20 00:59:24 +0000 UTC View Post

Q&A: How would you apply the AJATT method to learning a programing language?

Khatzumoto Q&A: I've really been following your blog from a self-development perspective. So, I basically try to apply your posts with self-help type problems. However, there is something sort ...

If You Want to Fail (Badly and Permanently), Demand Certainty

Fear. Shame. A desire to cower in a corner and disappear forever. These are emotions I know all too well. :(

Success so big and bad that people think it and I am miraculous? I also have some ...

Why I Spend So Much Time Talking Philosophy and So Little Giving You Concrete Tasks To Do

• First let me apologize for only being able to speak in cliches. My ability to express myself is just that limited. I'm sorry. And, unlike Demi Lovato, I mean it.
• Here's th...
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Q&A: Khatz do you consider yourself to be native-level at Japanese?

Yes and no. I have strengths and weaknesses. I can fool some people all the time, and all people some of the time but not yet all people all the time. So, yes in that I can fool you, no in that I c...

Language Is Messy and So Should You!

A short time ago, I was on a trip with some friends. We rented a small house together and hung out. And one morning, while all of us were in the kitchen, I re-realized [not a typo] something about ...