Monthly Archives: March 2010

In the Zone

By mattgirod | Published: March 18, 2010

Took a trip to the 38th parallel last weekend.

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Japanamania

By mattgirod | Published: March 8, 2010

Snapshots from the Tokyo-Kyoto Tour. All this language learning, SRS talk and no how’s Matt and what’s he REALLY doing? Japan! Really, I should say I did a tiny fraction of Tokyo and and a bit of Kyoto and a bullet train in between. It was one week of an almost completely tourist adventure. I [...]

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Five Month Report

By mattgirod | Published: March 7, 2010

녹차 라테 We talked over lattes in in the town of Kimje . I told her I wasted my time for the first year of studying Korean. I spent all that time struggling,  trying to retain what I had learned and trying to output using grammar rules.  But she said, “No. You have what you [...]

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Spaced Repetition Systems

By mattgirod | Published: March 4, 2010

Here’s a cool explanation. http://www.xamuel.com/spaced-repetition-systems/ The following bit caught my attention. The guy is experimenting with SRS and listening to music. “Basically, if you listen to the same song over and over, it gets tiresome. And if you haven’t listened to a song in awhile, it sounds better. Hmmm, this sounds analogous to something, doesn’t [...]

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