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Category: learning strategies

learning strategies

Writing, writing, writing…

The writing skill is certainly one of the most (if not the most) difficult competence to improve. Especially in Japanese,

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motivation / daily study

How to define one’s goals

I already posted about the importance of having several goals and write them down. But what is a goal? and

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learning strategies

Stay motivated: Define your goalS

Let your big goal make babies “When I am able to read literature in Japanese, I will start by Nobel

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Those old-fashioned skills 1: learning by heart

I am not a language learning specialist but learning languages is one of my favorite hobbies and I invest a

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My three daily anki decks 2: kanji

I talked about my deck of words in this post. As for my deck of kanji, a note gives two

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Inside that audiobook

To improve one’s listening skills, there is no other way than to listen, listen, listen. And one good way to

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My three daily anki decks 1: words

Like the majority of japanese learners (at least, I think so but I may be wrong), one part of my

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  • Cover of 寝台特急殺人事件. The cover illustration is a picture of a train wagon taken at night. There is a logo on the train that represents a blue bird with the name はやぶさ written on it.
  • Cover of 김대리가 죽었대. The cover illustration depicts a city with tall buildings at night or dawn. There are lights on several floors.

Latest posts in the Fediverse:

The pen I’m using today is my Kaweco Art Sport (Blueblack limited edition). It’s the only pen for which I’m using cartridges and it’s currently inked with Kaweco Midnight Blue. I love how it looks without the clip, so I never use it. (The body is dark blue, but not as dark as it appears on the picture. It’s difficult to get a good lighting…)#FountainPen #CurrentlyInked

23 September 2023 @ 8:02 am

#ReadingUpdate #LanguageLearning🚪 I have been busy this week so I haven’t read much, but my biggest achievement is without a doubt reaching 70% on 請把門鎖好 by 既晴 (Jì Qíng).
📦 I just started the second Korean short story for this week, 비어있는 상자 by 이승훈 (Lee Seunghun), so finishing it will be my main goal this weekend.
🚃 I’m still in the middle of 寝台特急殺人事件 by Kyotaro Nishimura (西村京太郎). I haven’t had much time to read it this week, but it is one of the most engrossing novels I have read lately.

23 September 2023 @ 2:02 am

#3GoodThings
🛋️ Put a small shelf near the table I’m using most of the time (it’s just the table from the living room) to put the plants on it, and I can also store my keyboard and notebooks/pens etc to make room on the table that gets always so crowded with my stationery and books.
👩🏻‍💻 Found a way (by asking my husband) to resize featured images on my blog.
🛏️ Couldn’t sleep last night and spent hours reading the Taiwanese book I want to finish this year. Made really good progress!

22 September 2023 @ 1:10 pm

Latest book reviews

渇きの町 (かわきのまち)

Book review:『渇きの街』by Kenzo Kitakata

Author: Kenzo Kitakata (北方謙三)

Even though 渇きの街 won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award and has overall good reviews, it was not a book that I enjoyed reading, mainly because I disli

天山を越えて (てんざんをこえて)

Book review: 『天山を越えて』by Koshi Kurumizawa

Author: Koshi Kurumizawa (胡桃沢耕史)

Though 天山を越えて won the Mystery Writers of Japan Award, it belongs more to the adventure genre than the mystery genre, and it was a bit of a disappointm

Cover of “Wの悲劇”.

Book review: 『Wの悲劇』by Shizuko Natsuki

Author: Shizuko Natsuki (夏樹静子)

『Wの悲劇』, whose title is an homage to Ellery Queen, is certainly one of the most famous works by Shizuko Natsuki, but I did not enjoy it as much as I ex

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