Genki Japan Blog はじめまして。

This site is Tofugu/TextFugu's biggest rival, yet it promotes an entirely different school of thought . AJATT is like the bible of input language learning, which is also promoted heavily by the creator of LingQ, Steve Kauffman . It's creator, Khatzumoto, discovered that language learning doesn't have to be a time-consuming task required hundreds of hours of homework (he hates classes), and that it's a process, not a science. I really admire this website and recommend it to everyone. AJATT started out as a blog in which Khatzumoto chronicled the methods he used for learning Japanese while he was still a busy college student and not taking classes in the language. He realized that all one really has to do is to try and do as much as you can in the language. Instead of memorizing grammar rules, reading books, and "studying", you just grow familiar with the language naturally. Here's what I mean by that. When you're busy working, cleaning, doing homework...

Long enough title for you? Okay, so after a bit of research, I noticed that there's a lot of keywords out there for "Textfugu vs. AJATT" and the very fact that those two are together in a search query makes me want to facepalm (I also made the mistake of mentioning AJATT in my review post), so I'm going to explain the various ways to learn a langauge, as they're all different, so maybe you'll have an idea as to how you'd like to try learning. This stuff will all be compiled in a lengthier, much more detailed book I'm writing, but for now let's just get a few things straight. Firstly, there's many different methods out there for learning a language, but they all basically can be simplified down to four categories: academic, input, output, or a mix of those three. That's it, and while everyone can claim that their method is different or better than all the others out there, you can always guarantee it will fall predominately into one of the f...