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	<title>Learn Japanese</title>
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	<description>Nihongo.3Yen.com - Japanese Language</description>
	<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:55:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Learning methods: does it matter?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-05/learning-methods-does-it-matter/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-05/learning-methods-does-it-matter/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2008 01:52:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Normally I hate blog posts that just links to another blog that links to another blog that links to the primary source, especially when I&#8217;m subscribed to both blogs. Just give me the source, I don&#8217;t need your one line comment and link!
Nevertheless, I read a blog post about language learning methods and felt an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The most useful word&#8230; EVAR</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-02/the-most-useful-word-evar/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-05-02/the-most-useful-word-evar/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 19:49:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[    Intermediate]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In every language, there&#8217;s a common pattern of the most useful words being the most complicated and confusing. This is a natural consequence from the fact that the word must cover many different types of usages and meanings in order to be so useful. Due to its usefulness, it will also often go through various [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Things that lose &#8220;coolness&#8221; when translated</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-04-18/things-that-lose-coolness-when-translated/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-04-18/things-that-lose-coolness-when-translated/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:57:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Some things in Japanese just seem to lose their cool when translated into English.
I&#8217;m sure there are examples where the reverse is true but it&#8217;s much easier for me to come up with these examples.
Fighting words
「ぶっ倒してやる！」 (Cool) -> &#8220;I&#8217;m going to beat you!&#8221; (Not cool)
Technique/Spell/Summon Names
「螺旋丸！」 (Maybe Cool) -> &#8220;Spiraling Round [Thing]!&#8221; (Definitely not cool)
語尾 [...]]]></description>
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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>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-27/what-you-forgot-it-good/#comments</comments>
		<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>Lingq, a cool and promising flash card website</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-16/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-02-16/linq-a-promising-and-cool-website/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Feb 2008 23:51:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I just wanted to write a quick post about Lingq, a website I just found about today. It&#8217;s so cool that I just had to write something about it right away. It&#8217;s a real world implementation of some of my ideas for a better flash card program. Instead of having to create your own index [...]]]></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>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-31/final-thoughts-on-remembering-the-kanji/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2008 22:59:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[    Beginner]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[  Kanji]]></category>

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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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		<title>Ruby tags considered harmful</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-08/ruby-tags-considered-harmful/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-08/ruby-tags-considered-harmful/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:46:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[    About this site]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[  Kanji]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you unfamiliar with the ruby tag, it is an html tag that adds tiny readings over kanji. 「ルビ」 traditionally is used in print for archaic kanji or when the author wants to indicate a non-standard reading for the kanji. However, on the net, ruby tags are being abused everywhere I see them. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>日本語のブログ</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-05/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%aa%9e%e3%81%ae%e3%83%96%e3%83%ad%e3%82%b0/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2008-01-05/%e6%97%a5%e6%9c%ac%e8%aa%9e%e3%81%ae%e3%83%96%e3%83%ad%e3%82%b0/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2008 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[    Intermediate]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[  Learning &#038; Resources]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[プチポスト]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[みなさん、日本語で書かれている面白いブログ、ご存知ないですか？英語のブログをたくさん読んでますけど、日本語のブログは全然です。
人気ブログランキングがあるんですが、範囲が広すぎて、面白いブログを探すのがめんどくさいです。有名人のブログも人気あるようですが、個人的にはあまり好きじゃないし、私みたいな凡人よりもっと面白い人生を送っているようで、なんかムカつきます。
ちにまに、私が読んでいるブログは、この日本語教師のブログぐらいです。日本語に興味なくても、なかなか面白いですよ。
コメントで面白いブログをシェアーしましょう！
最後に．．．（もう遅いけど）
あけましておめでとうございます！
今年もよろしくお願いします。これからも、コメントをじゃんじゃん書いてね！
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		<title>Where&#8217;s the research for Japanese language education?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-12-22/wheres-the-research-for-japanese-language-education/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-12-22/wheres-the-research-for-japanese-language-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:21:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was taking a look at last year&#8217;s admissions test for the Japanese Applied Linguistics Graduate program at Waseda and there are some very interesting and intriguing questions.
Here&#8217;s a small sample:
G　JSLの子どもを対象にした日本語学習教材について述べなさい。
B　CLL (Community Language Learning) について説明しなさい。
H　「総合型教科書」 について述べなさい。
You can download the whole file at:
http://www.waseda.jp/gsjal/dat/nyusi_master/07.4-07.9m_kakomon.pdf.
It seems like there&#8217;s a lot of research and things going on for teaching [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How many of you have a stack of index cards collecting dust?</title>
		<link>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-12-19/how-many-of-you-have-a-stack-of-index-cards-collecting-dust/</link>
		<comments>http://nihongo.3yen.com/2007-12-19/how-many-of-you-have-a-stack-of-index-cards-collecting-dust/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tae Kim</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Following up from yesterday&#8217;s post about index card programs, I stumbled upon Jonathan&#8217;s blog and his post about spaced repetition software by following his comment link.
I won&#8217;t talk about them here because as we all know, I think they all suck. Why is it that these programs never think about sharing index cards, community ranking [...]]]></description>
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