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Learning Japanese: Month Four update

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I'm now just over four months into my current language project: learning Japanese. Here's my April update. There's a video update at the bottom of the post, too. My target minimum focussed study time is half an hour of Japanese daily, seven days a week or, over nine months. A "full house" total of 30 mins x 30 April days would be fifteen hours. My actual total was … [Read more...]

Learning Japanese: Month Three update

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I'm now just over three months into my new language project: learning basic Japanese in nine months. Here's an update of how it went in March (with the update vid down at the bottom). My target minimum focussed study time is half an hour a Japanese daily, seven days a week or, over nine months. The month in figures: my Japanese study log Thirty minutes a day for … [Read more...]

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