Comments on: How The Little Epiphanies Add Up [Obvious]

By: Conscious Japanese Competence [Obvious]

Conscious Japanese Competence [Obvious] — Thu, 13 Oct 2011 16:02:02 +0000

[...] previous “Obvious” posts, we’ve gone over both the idea of achieving and noticing more epiphanies (because all people need to have X number of epiphanies to level up your Japanese) as well as [...]

By: Josh

Josh — Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:20:00 +0000

I started reading this and was thinking how abstract this concept was. Then I had an epiphany about having epiphanies and realized how applicable this really is. Essentially you are learning how to learn and when you pay attention to how to learn things you can learn them faster and more efficiently. I appreciate the article.

By: Confused? Good. That Means You’re Understanding [Obvious]

Confused? Good. That Means You’re Understanding [Obvious] — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 17:17:35 +0000

[...] the last “obvious” post where we talked about epiphanies in Japanese and learning? The idea of getting confused goes hand in hand with this. Without confusion, you won’t have [...]

By: Epiphany « Yuki no Kotoba

Epiphany « Yuki no Kotoba — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 03:01:27 +0000

[...] first thing I read was an article on Tofugu about “little epiphanies.” It makes sense and all, but it wasn’t until a bit [...]

By: Peptron

Peptron — Fri, 30 Sep 2011 02:24:00 +0000

About 2 months ago I noticed that I had reached the One Epiphany to Rule Them All.
That was the moment I realised that I knew enough Japanese to learn Japanese using Japanese alone. That is, doing away with English as a medium. The moment you can use a kokugo dictionary and no longer really need an EnglishJapanese dictionary, you enter an exponential curve of improvement, and I feel like my proficiency is almost doubling every month now.

This One Epiphany to Rule Them All also makes it so you can easily study 8 hours+ a day without getting tired, since you can think quite a bit in Japanese naturally. It took me roughly 5 years on and off to get there.

By: Liz

Liz — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 23:37:00 +0000

I really like this article! Especially the sentence about smart people having learned to be smart.
I totally agree that these little epiphanies add up to something big. My latest epiphany: At our local Japanese conversation table, I realized that I had been focusing too much on having 100% perfect grammar, to the exclusion of actually listening to and understanding what the other person was saying, or even really trying to get the point across of what I was saying. When practicing conversation, it’s far better to immerse yourself in the moment and to not spend all your time worrying about making mistakes.