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In this series of “obvious” posts, we’ve gone over several things. First, we talked about epiphanies and how to get them. Then we went over confusion, and why it’s such a good thing. Lastly, we looked at conscious competence to show you why you’re having trouble (as well as the four stages one goes through [...]
To fling poo, or not to fling poo. That is the question. In 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 striving for confusion (because people who are confused are [...]
When it comes to students rating teachers in a classroom, one of the most common things students look at is clarity. “Did I understand what this teacher was teaching me?” “Was the teacher clear in what they’re teaching?” Now, sometimes this is probably a good thing. I’ve had some terrible teachers and a lot of [...]
This is the second article in a series all about “Making Japanese Obvious” where I guide you through various things that will help you to get to the point where Japanese becomes obvious. Why? Because when something is obvious, you know it (and I mean really know it). The mystery, however, is getting to that [...]
Okay, fine, so that’s a picture of Captain Hindsight and not a picture of Captain Obvious, but it’s still sort of the same meessage: In order to know Japanese, Japanese has to be Obvious to you. D’uh. That’s pretty obvious itself, right? I think the really interesting question, though, is how to get to this [...]
