Here's the latest monthly update on Project "Learn Japanese". I started working on the language at the beginning of 2019, a full fifteen months ago (video at the bottom). Before my first trip to Japan (last October), I aimed to dedicate thirty-minutes to focussed Japanese study. That reflects the importance I attach to consistency and habit in my language learning and how I … [Read more...]
Reading for fluency…and pleasure in your foreign language
When you're reading for pleasure, you're focussed on narrative, atmosphere, character, action. The individual details (and words) may not be as important as the pervading message. This post is about how to smooth the flow of such "extensive" reading in your foreign language. In the first post in this series on reading in your foreign language, we saw how important reading is … [Read more...]