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
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...]
Learning Japanese: Month Two update
How to start learning Japanese? I decided to find out first hand. As I announced at the beginning of the year, my new language learning prooject is to be able to function at a basic level in the language when I visit Japan for the first time for the Polyglot Conference in October. This is the second of my monthly update posts: a review of how study went in February and … [Read more...]