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I made a small tinder-like website to help me memorize the Kanji since it is my personal bottleneck now and it's working quite better than I expected: https://core.cards/ It is based on spaced repetition and frequency lists to optimize what you learn (see the About page). It has to be complemented with other learning methods of course. The required login is with github for sync with different devices.
And what is the real value of learning japanese? (apart from being an english teacher in japan) sure is fine as a hoby, but for a professional, I believe the japanese are the ones that should learn english, and don't take me wrong, my native tong is spanish and english my second one, but I see english as the universal language to learn.
Does everything need to have monetary value? Learning a language can be done for many reasons. I know a bit of Spanish because I holiday in Spain occasionally, although lately it has become valuable as we are working in LatAm a bit. I know passable Italian purely because it was enjoyable to learn. It has since been useful on two vacations across Italy. And finally I'm learning Polish due to my partner being Polish. I…
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Does everything need to have monetary value? Learning a language can be done for many reasons. I know a bit of Spanish because I holiday in Spain occasionally, although lately it has become valuable as we are working in LatAm a bit. I know passable Italian purely because it was enjoyable to learn. It has since been useful on two vacations across Italy. And finally I'm learning Polish due to my partner being Polish. I…
How did your knowledge of Spanish help with learning Italian?
On the flipside, it made my Spanish vocab quite a bit worse as I keep recalling the Italian word in place. Happily this doesn't lead to many problems in reality, most Spaniards I have interacted with have either understood the word anyway or I could recall the correct word quickly.