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- Luke Smith says that you will not learn a language by consuming media. Doesn't it contradict the AJATT theory? — February 27, 2023
- When reviewing cards, if I could only remember a word due to the surrounding context, how should I grade the card? — February 24, 2023
- Should I watch with Japanese subtitles while going through the kanji phase? — February 16, 2023
- Is it important to practice reading tategaki? — February 15, 2023
- I'm not a kid anymore. Am I too old to learn a language? — February 14, 2023
- Pausing. How often should I look things up while actively immersing? — February 13, 2023
- In order to increase my reading speed, should I force myself to start skimming? — February 13, 2023
- Is it more efficient to stick to one genre/domain instead of jumping around? — February 09, 2023
- I'm not motivated and don't enjoy learning Japanese, is it still worth my time? — February 08, 2023
- I am struggling to switch from English to Japanese media. Should I go cold turkey? — February 06, 2023
- How much reading is required to counteract not SRSing? — February 05, 2023
- I only do passive immersion and things aren't working, what's wrong? — February 01, 2023
- How to learn readings after finishing isolated kanji study? — January 29, 2023
- How to make monolingual TSCs for vocab and grammar? — January 29, 2023
- How to rep audio-based sentence cards? — January 29, 2023
- How to develop a personality in your L2? — January 29, 2023
- What is Rikaitan Search? — January 27, 2023
- How can I improve at reading Japanese names? — January 27, 2023
- How broad or narrow is a "domain" of language? — January 27, 2023
- If a word has more than one kanji spellings, which do I mine? — January 25, 2023
- Can I get fluent in Japanese with 1 hour a day? — January 24, 2023
- What's more harmful: early output or letting your reading ability get too far ahead of your listening ability? — January 23, 2023
- I want to learn a difficult language (Japanese) and an easy language (Spanish). Should I learn them at the same time? — January 23, 2023
- Did you track your daily immersion hours during your hardcore phase? — January 23, 2023
- I have many bad habits due to being forced to prematurely output for many years in school. How should I go about fixing these bad habits? — January 23, 2023
- How do I change language in Telegram to Japanese? — January 22, 2023
- I just quit WaniKani after learning 1,300 kanji. Should I do JP1K or just jump into sentence mining? — January 22, 2023
- How do I look up words when I read manga? — January 21, 2023
- How to look up words on web pages? — January 21, 2023
- How should I review monolingual word cards? — January 17, 2023
- How much listening should I do before I start reading? — January 16, 2023
- How to approach words with multiple meanings? Should I make multiple cards? — January 16, 2023
- How important is passive immersion? — January 11, 2023
- Does time spent in Anki count as immersion time? — January 11, 2023
- How to learn Japanese? — January 10, 2023
- How many water bottles do you go through in a day? — January 10, 2023
- Do you still watch anime? — January 10, 2023
- Have you talked to Khatzumoto? — January 10, 2023
- How does the space between words function in Japanese? In English you have a space between words but I can't see that in Japanese. — January 09, 2023
- How to start reading as a beginner? — January 09, 2023
- How do I add a directory to the PATH? — January 09, 2023
- Do your Tango decks have audio or text on the front? Which way is better? — January 09, 2023
- I forget kanji readings in sentences. Should I use furigana? — January 09, 2023
- How has learning Japanese changed your outlook on language learning? — January 04, 2023
- How do you learn how to write Japanese? — January 04, 2023
- How do I get corrections from native speakers? — January 04, 2023
- How much progress can I expect in a year? — January 04, 2023
- Given that reading can harm pronunciation, when is the ideal time to become an avid reader? — December 28, 2022
- How much more efficient is AJATT than Refold? — December 27, 2022
- How many new cards to learn each day? — December 27, 2022
- How strict were you about ALL Japanese ALL the time? — December 27, 2022
- How to do monolingual RTK? — December 27, 2022
- How to review and grade TSCs? — December 26, 2022
- How to change the font in an entire Anki deck? — December 26, 2022
- I can only recall kanji when in the context of the specific sentence I learned it in. How do I fix this? — December 26, 2022
- How to change note types? — December 24, 2022
- How do I make a file executable? — December 24, 2022
- What is comprehensible input? — December 24, 2022
- Have you ever had any plateaus? What to do when you're stuck? — December 23, 2022
- Do you play video games? Are video games good for immersion? — December 23, 2022
- Anki to immersion ratio. How much time should I spend SRSing? — December 23, 2022
- I did RRTK, but my kanji ability still feels shaky. Should I do the JP1K? — December 23, 2022
- How many reps did you do a day on average? — December 23, 2022
- How should I divide my study time? — December 23, 2022
- How would you go about learning programming? — December 23, 2022
- Is it harmful to always have TL subtitles on? — December 22, 2022
- I would like to start adding pitch accent to my cards. How should I grade the cards once I add pitch accent? — December 20, 2022
- Is it OK to make cards for sentences I don't fully understand? — December 20, 2022
- Thoughts on Khatz's "multiplexed input"? — December 19, 2022
- Is it OK to create mnemonics to help remember kanji readings? — December 18, 2022
- Is JAV good for immersion? — December 11, 2022
- Is learning to understand Kansai-ben difficult? — December 05, 2022
- Is listening to TTS (text-to-speech) bad? — December 05, 2022
- Is studying grammar required? — December 05, 2022
- Is SuperMemo better than Anki? — December 05, 2022
- Is there a Japanese syntax parser similar to Jisho.org but with no English? — December 05, 2022
- Is there a way to view the cards I have failed the most times on Anki? — December 05, 2022
- Isn't 18 hours each day quite a lot? — December 05, 2022
- Kanji in the current year — December 05, 2022
- Are there any language learning YouTubers that you like? What YouTubers do you like in general? — December 05, 2022
- I just learned that I was reviewing the Ankidrone Foundation deck completely wrong. What should I do from here? — December 05, 2022
- I'm a beginner. Do you recommend learning the "advanced grammar" within Tae Kim's grammar guide? — December 05, 2022
- How should I go about making cards for words that are written identically but pronounced differently? — December 05, 2022
- Is there a "bare minimum" amount of Anki you would recommend to people who hate Anki? — December 03, 2022
- Can Morphman help me with the monolingual transition? — December 03, 2022
- Passive immersion playlist structure? — December 03, 2022
- What are your current recommendations related to how to sentence mine? — December 01, 2022
- If I come across a word in kana, but the dictionary says the word also has kanji, do I kanjify the word when I make a targeted sentence card for it? — December 01, 2022
- Should I limit how many sentences I mine from a single source? — December 01, 2022
- Should I limit how much dubbed content I immerse with? What are the downsides of dubbed content? — December 01, 2022
- Should I make cards for grammar to study in my SRS? — November 30, 2022
- Should I make mnemonics to learn new words? — November 30, 2022
- Should I put English translations on Bilingual TSCs? — November 30, 2022
- As a beginner learning Japanese through anime, should I lower the speed to hear the words better or should I leave it at normal speed? — November 28, 2022
- Should I read sentences aloud when doing Anki reps? — November 28, 2022
- Should I read through Tae Kim while going through the Tango decks? — November 28, 2022
- Google or Microsoft IME? — November 28, 2022
- As a beginner should I study tongue placement and imitate native speakers, or should I just listen? — November 28, 2022
- Should I trust Cure Dolly and "Organic Japanese"? — November 28, 2022
- Should I trust mattvsjapan and the "Refold" site? — November 27, 2022
- Should I up my active immersion? — November 27, 2022
- Should I use a smaller font when reading to get used to small fonts? — November 26, 2022
- I'm struggling with kanji while working through Tango decks. Should I go through RTK? — November 25, 2022
- What are your current thoughts on Morphman? Do you recommend it? — November 24, 2022
- How do Japanese people pronounce “?” and “!”? — November 24, 2022
- Thoughts on listening to podcasts while playing a video game? — November 24, 2022
- How to extract audio from immersion content for passive listening? — November 24, 2022
- If someone has watched anime with English subs for thousands of hours before starting to learn Japanese, how much of a head start does that give them? — November 24, 2022
- Should I use pictures instead of English definitions? — November 24, 2022
- Should I watch anime with English subtitles? — November 23, 2022
- Can I use Netflix to learn Japanese? — November 23, 2022
- Do you have any thoughts about struggling with katakana-words while immersing? — November 23, 2022
- Tae Kim: is "essential grammar" enough? — November 23, 2022
- FAQ — November 20, 2022
- Why should I avoid Discord, Reddit, 4chan, etc.? — October 27, 2022
- Why does premature reading cripple phonetic awareness? — October 27, 2022
- Who can teach me Japanese? — October 27, 2022
- When should I make the monolingual transition? — October 27, 2022
- When should I change my devices to Japanese? — October 27, 2022
- When do I make a card, and when do I just keep going? — October 27, 2022
- When and how to go about dropping the SRS? — October 27, 2022
- What time of day should I do Anki? — October 27, 2022
- What's input and output? — October 27, 2022
- What's immersion? — October 27, 2022
- What should I be "doing" while actively immersing? — October 27, 2022
- What's fluency? — October 27, 2022
- What's AJATT? — October 27, 2022
- What operating system do you use? — October 27, 2022
- What Japanese documentaries do you recommend? — October 27, 2022
- Is the technique of "laddering" helpful when learning a new language? — October 27, 2022
- What is the minimum to maintain fluency? — October 27, 2022
- What is the カ゚ symbol I see in dictionaries? — October 27, 2022
- What is the anime you mined the most? — October 27, 2022
- What is a 1T sentence? — October 27, 2022
- What good things are there to watch for a complete beginner? — October 27, 2022
- What do you think of using MCDs to train production? — October 27, 2022
- What do you think of the Core 6K deck? Is it a good replacement for the Tango decks? — October 27, 2022
- What do you think of "animecards" (high quality vocab cards)? — October 27, 2022
- What do you think about graded readers? — October 27, 2022
- What do you do for fun, related and unrelated to Japanese? — October 27, 2022
- What are your thoughts on timeboxing? — October 27, 2022
- What are your plans regarding moving to Japan? — October 27, 2022
- What are the downsides of using WaniKani? — October 27, 2022
- What are the AJATT recommended Anki settings? — October 27, 2022
- What about reading physical books? — October 27, 2022
- Watching raw or watching with Japanese subs? — October 27, 2022
- Top 10 anime of all time? — October 27, 2022
- What are your current thoughts on removing cards once they pass a certain interval? — October 27, 2022
- Thoughts on reading before listening? — October 27, 2022
- Should I read Khatzumoto's blog? — October 27, 2022
- Should I buy a Kindle to read Japanese books? — October 27, 2022
- Itazuraneko recommends reading Yotsubato with a specific reading pack. Is that still a good way to get started with reading? — October 27, 2022
