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		<title>What, you forgot it? Good!</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-27/what-you-forgot-it-good/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Feb 2008 17:43:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I wrote that current spaced repetition software all suck, I wasn&#8217;t saying that you shouldn&#8217;t use them or that the idea of spaced repetition itself sucks. To make an analogy, Linus Torvalds said subversion sucks in a talk about git and while I found his talk interesting I still continue to use subversion. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final thoughts on remembering the kanji</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-31/final-thoughts-on-remembering-the-kanji/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my first post about Heisig&#8217;s Remembering the Kanji (RTK), I invited people to convince me that the book can teach you to &#8220;write kanji like a native&#8221; as claimed in the book&#8217;s introduction. As it turns out, it all depends on how you define, &#8220;write kanji like a native&#8221; and the introduction needed some [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Do I need to take a class to learn Japanese?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-11-27/do-i-need-to-take-a-class-to-learn-japanese/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:13:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I started learning Chinese, I never once considered taking a class. The simple reason is that I didn&#8217;t have the time and didn&#8217;t want to pay the money. But it might be more accurate to say I didn&#8217;t think that classes were worth the time and money. And although I&#8217;m currently not too thrilled [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>31</slash:comments>
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		<title>Begin the journey to mastering your 気</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-11-09/utilizing-your-chi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[  Kanji]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Vocabulary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I'm going to be talking about 「<a href="http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/jwb/wwwjdic?1D">気</a>」 and useful expressions that go along with it.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Repeat after me, there is NO such thing as a subject!</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-09-03/repeat-after-me-there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-subject/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-09-03/repeat-after-me-there-is-no-such-thing-as-the-subject/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Sep 2007 04:40:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my biggest pet peeves in the field of Japanese as a second language is the 「が」 particle being called the &#8220;subject particle&#8221;. This misleading terminology comes from my second biggest pet peeve, which is educators trying to artificially tie Japanese into English language concepts. I think one of the problems is that Japanese [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>Part 2 on the non-existent 「たい」 form rule</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-02-22/part-2-on-the-previous-half-finished-post/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2007 03:49:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[    Beginner]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the previous post, not only did I to get away with being too lazy to finish what I was writing but I managed to make it an excuse for more comments. I&#8217;m a genius! The only downside is the increased pressure to actually come back and finish what I started. (As you can see, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Ssh, don&#8217;t tell anyone but&#8230; you can use 「を」 with the 「たい」 form</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-02-16/what-is-the-difference-between-ringo-ga-tabetai-and-ringo-wo-tabetai/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-02-16/what-is-the-difference-between-ringo-ga-tabetai-and-ringo-wo-tabetai/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2007 23:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I remember reading or hearing a long time ago that you can&#8217;t use the object particle 「を」 with the 「たい」 form of the verb. (If you are unfamiliar with the 「たい」 form, click here.) Now that&#8217;s complete rubbish but I can see where the logic came from. When a verb is converted to the 「たい」 [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Tae Kim&#8217;s Language Studying Tips</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-10-27/tae-kims-language-studying-tips/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-10-27/tae-kims-language-studying-tips/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Oct 2006 07:07:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Now that I&#8217;m studying Chinese from scratch, I&#8217;m back to where I was when I started learning Japanese six years ago. (My god, has it been that long already?) It&#8217;s great because it really reminds me of what it was like to be completely lost in a new language. In fact, I think foreign language [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>How come they never teach 「何で」?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-07-12/how-come-they-never-teach-%e3%80%8c%e4%bd%95%e3%81%a7%e3%80%8d/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-07-12/how-come-they-never-teach-%e3%80%8c%e4%bd%95%e3%81%a7%e3%80%8d/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Jul 2006 06:45:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[  Colloquialism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[  Vocabulary]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Ｉ don&#8217;t know how far Japanese language education has progressed in recent years, but back when I was a student, we were taught to use 「どうして」 for &#8220;why&#8221;. This was great until I went out into the real world and found out that people used another word that I was never taught: 「なんで」. Huh? What [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Beginner Lesson #3: Adjectives and the 「の」 particle</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-06-13/lesson-3-notes/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2006-06-13/lesson-3-notes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:09:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beginner Japanese Lesson #3: Adjectives and the 「の」 particle (length: 28:56) and original lesson details.
Here is the recording for the third beginner Skype lesson. You can subscribe to this podcast with iTunes from the following link:
Subscribe to this podcast with iTunes
This time, you can tell it&#8217;s spring because of the background noises from the birds. [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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