Anki Remembering the Kanji Stats for May-June
Here’s a photo of my stats on Anki for the past month concerning my Remembering the Kanji study.
Game of Thrones: Post Season 3 Episode 9 Outrage and Power as the Theme of Game of Thrones
This post is full of spoilers, even for watchers of the show. That being said, this is my opinion nature of the show and its major theme being power.
Reviewing As Thinking Mr. Powell is essentially trying to get you to remove the stress from memorization. I hear more and more about this kind of trend in mnemonics. My last three reblogs have been about it and I think it will continue to gain traction. I know I have been trying to implement this … Continue reading
Learning Japanese in a year: Manga-style explanation! Another immersion success story. I never get tired of reading these.
Suffering From Perfectionism While Studying Japanese This article is full of win. It describes me perfectly when I first started trying to learn all the Kanji. The thing is, perfectionism kept me from even getting as far as this article describes. I would take forever to even get through one flashcard. That caused me to … Continue reading
Rejecting the Bangladesh Safety Accord
Originally posted on The Business Ethics Blog:
Image by rijans (Creative Commons) It’s easy to villainize a company like Walmart for being unwilling to sign an agreement seeking to improve safety for workers in Bangladesh. What’s harder is to assess the company’s actual motives, and its obligations. Headlines recently blared that Walmart has refused to…
A Review of Four Notebook Apps
In this review I discuss Springpad, Evernote, Catch, and OneNote. I go over the advantages and disadvantages of each and tell you which one I think is the best. Here’s a hint: it has a lot to do with checklists.
Hiring the Donor’s Daughter
Originally posted on The Business Ethics Blog:
Nonprofit and charitable organizations face many of the same ethical challenges that other organizations face, but they may also bump into a few special problems from time to time. As an example, consider the following HR dilemma, which was posed to me recently. I work for a nonprofit…
http://japaneselevelup.com/3-reasons-to-learn-japanese-on-twitter/ This is an article about using Twitter to learn Japanese. If you’re not familiar with Japanese Level Up, the concept is that learning languages by reading and understanding sentences is better than just learning vocabulary. So by using Twitter one can have basically unlimited access to sentences which are actually being used in context, … Continue reading
Nicholas' Nonsense 