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[kvasir]

Maybe what we really need is not a Japanese reading course but an English reading course.

Offer now withdrawn.

Please don't rescind your offer just because of my pooh-poohing. I'd charge that you were not serious about it at all. I mean you did suggest someone's postilion could be struck by lightning as a result, which sounds like the joke is really on them. That they'd have learned some nonsense. So much for my reading comprehension here.

I just think "such people" could be motivated to actually try a regular study of the language, which may or may not have been the intention behind the offer.

[CDavis7M]

this is silly.

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Another thing that isn't being considered is the convenience of having flash cards in your pocket at all times. You can easily go through flash cards any time that you have a few free minutes. And the words aren't so random, it's something you can design yourself, even using statistics similar to what John Tilley did. It's true that you can get Go World, OCR, and a dictionary on your phone, but it's so much more cumbersome than doing the same at a desk on computer that I do not bother.

When it does come time to read Go commentaries with a dictionary at my desk, I have more vocabulary down than I would otherwise. It's not one study technique vs the other. It's both together.

Public Anki flash card decks:
Hiragana + Katakana + Dakuten + Handakuten + Yoon (with audio): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/66384999

Kanji Radical (Primitive): https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1044119361

Japanese Core 2000 - Complete 01 - 09 (Generally common Kanji and phrases. 240.58MB. 3989 audio & 1959 images) https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1723306405

Maybe I'll make a new Go term deck for sharing from Sensei's Library along with my own terms. I don't want to upload something with copy-paste from Just Enough Japanese.

[Kirby]

Probably at the end of the day, whatever keeps you studying consistently is at least reasonably good. Some methods are more or less efficient, but if you're consistently studying and enjoying it, it's probably a good method (even if it's possibly not the most efficient way).