Sunday, November 30, 2014

Too much at one time: extra unnecessary online links

http://www.mylanguageexchange.com/Default.asp

http://www.notesinspanish.com/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/spanish/

http://www.moneycrashers.com/learn-new-foreign-language-free/

Laundry Service Shakira ~music
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Monday, November 24, 2014

Spanish Anki (more)


Visual Spanish Vocabulary - 868 words


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Wednesday, November 19, 2014

Auxiliary languages

http://logs.omegle.com/7be87cb

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_auxiliary_language

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esperanto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interlingua



Naaa, just learn Spanish and JavaScript first!



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Latin America

http://logs.omegle.com/27a06fe

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language_in_the_United_States

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_language


webapp.lingua.ly/
double click on a word to get translation

lingq.com/
livemocha.com


Romance languages are spoken, primarily Spanish and Portuguese
Mexico, Central America, Caribbean, South America

Spanish is spoken as first language by about 60% of the population, Portuguese is spoken by about 34% of the population and about 6% of the population speak other languages

 Spanish is the official language of most of the rest of the countries on the Latin American mainland (Spanish language in the Americas), as well as in Cuba, Puerto Rico (where it is co-official with English), and the Dominican Republic. French is spoken in Haiti and in the French overseas departments ofGuadeloupe, Martinique and Guiana, and the French overseas collectivity of Saint Pierre and Miquelon; it is also spoken by some Panamanians of Afro-Antillean descent. 

 The vast majority of Latin Americans are Christians, mostly Roman Catholicsbelonging to the Latin Rite.[55] About 70% of the Latin American population consider themselves Catholic.[56]

Migration[edit]

Due to economic, social and security developments that are affecting the region in recent decades, the focus is now the change from net immigration to netemigration. About 10 million Mexicans live in the United States.[57] 28.3 million Americans listed their ancestry as Mexican as of 2006.[58]

Inequality[edit]

Main articles: Casta, Gente de Razon and Race and ethnicity in Latin America
Slums on the outskirts of a wealthy urban area in São Paulo, Brazil are an example of poverty and inequality common in Latin America.
Expensive homes and apartments surrounding a poor marginal zone are an example of the stark difference in incomes among Mexico City inhabitants.
Poverty continues to be one of the region's main challenges; according to theECLAC, Latin America is the most unequal region in the world.[105] Inequality is undermining the region's economic potential and the well-being of its population, since it increases poverty and reduces the impact of economic development on poverty reduction.[106] Children in Latin America are often forced to seek work on the streets when their families can no longer afford to support them, leading to a substantial population of street children in Latin America.[107] According to some estimates, there are 40 million street children in Latin America.[108]

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Japan

Radiation Contamination
http://www.japantravelinfo.com/news/news_item.php?newsid=431
http://www.jnto.go.jp/eq/eng/04_recovery.htm

stratovolcanic archipelago: four largest islands are Honshu, Hokkaido,Kyushu, and Shikoku (97% of Japan). Japan has the world's tenth-largest population

Japan is a member of the United Nations, the G7, the G8, and the G-20 major economies. Although Japan has officially renounced its right to declare war, it maintains a modern military with the world's eighth largest military budget

the Japanese population enjoying the highest life expectancy in the world and the infant mortality rate being the third lowest globally.[11][12][13]

Japanese people refer to themselves as Nihonjin (日本人) and to their language as Nihongo (日本語).

About 73 percent of Japan is forested, mountainous, and unsuitable for agricultural, industrial, or residential use

Japan has 108 active volcanoes. Destructive earthquakes, often resulting in tsunami, occur several times each century.[78] The 1923 Tokyo earthquake killed over 140,000 people.[79] More recent major quakes are the 1995 Great Hanshin earthquake and the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake, a 9.0-magnitude[80] quake which hit Japan on March 11, 2011, and triggered a large tsunami.[52] Due to its location in the Pacific Ring of Fire, Japan is substantially prone to earthquakes and tsunami, having the highest natural disaster risk in the developed world.[81]

administrative reorganization by merging many of the cities, towns and villages with each other
Regions and Prefectures of Japan 2.svg

Japan's population is more than 127 million,[2] with 80% of the population living on Honshū. Japanese society is linguistically and culturally homogeneous

In 2003, there were about 134,700 non-Latin American Western and 345,500 Latin American expatriates, 274,700 of whom were Brazilians (said to be primarily Japanese descendants, or nikkeijin, along with their spouses),[149] the largest community of Westerners.[151]



Japan suffers from a high suicide rate.[169][170] In 2009, the number of suicides exceeded 30,000 for the twelfth straight year.[171] Suicide is the leading cause of death for people under 30.[172]


Japanese is an agglutinative languagedistinguished by a system of honorifics reflecting the hierarchical nature of Japanese society, with verb forms and particular vocabulary indicating the relative status of speaker and listener. Japanese writing uses kanji (Chinese characters) and two sets of kana (syllabaries based on simplified Chinese characters), as well as the Latin alphabet andArabic numerals.
The earliest works of Japanese literature include the Kojiki and Nihon Shokichronicles and the Man'yōshū poetry anthology, all from the 8th century and written in Chinese characters.[201][202] In the early Heian period, the system ofphonograms known as kana (Hiragana and Katakana) was developed. The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter is considered the oldest Japanese narrative.[203] An account of Heian court life is given in The Pillow Book by Sei Shōnagon, whileThe Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu is often described as the world's first novel.[204][205]
During the Edo period, the chōnin ("townspeople") overtook the samurai aristocracy as producers and consumers of literature. The popularity of the works of Saikaku, for example, reveals this change in readership and authorship, while Bashō revivified the poetic tradition of the Kokinshū with his haikai (haiku) and wrote the poetic travelogue Oku no Hosomichi.[206] The Meiji era saw the decline of traditional literary forms as Japanese literature integrated Western influences. Natsume Sōseki and Mori Ōgai were the first "modern" novelists of Japan, followed by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, Jun'ichirō Tanizaki, Yukio Mishima and, more recently, Haruki Murakami. Japan has two Nobel Prize-winning authors—Yasunari Kawabata (1968) and Kenzaburō Ōe (1994).[203]

Japanese cuisine is based on combining staple foods, typically Japanese rice ornoodles, with a soup and okazu — dishes made from fish, vegetable, tofu and the like – to add flavor to the staple food. In the early modern era ingredients such as red meats that had previously not been widely used in Japan were introduced. 

Traditionally, sumo is considered Japan's national sport.[209] Japanese martial arts such as judo, karate and kendo are also widely practiced and enjoyed by spectators in the country. After the Meiji Restoration, many Western sports were introduced in Japan and began to spread through the education system.[210]Japan hosted the Summer Olympics in Tokyo in 1964. Japan has hosted the Winter Olympics twice: Sapporo in 1972 and Nagano in 1998.[211] Tokyo will host the 2020 Summer Olympics, making Tokyo the first Asian city to host the Olympics twice.
Baseball is currently the most popular spectator sport in the country. 


Language in Japan[edit]

Main article: Languages of Japan



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My polyglot list



Spanish & codecademy.com

  • Jay's Rosetta Stone

Japanese

  • Top Amazon activity booklet

Interlingua/ Esperanto 

  • Unknown
Chinese
Korean
German
French/ Italian
Thai/ Portugese
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014

Buy

http://logs.omegle.com/50720e53


Barcharts
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Vocabulary-Quickstudy-Inc-BarCharts/dp/1572229195/ref=pd_cp_sw_3

1st ~ workbook
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Zero-Techniques-Students-Professionals/dp/0976998122/ref=pd_cp_sw_2


maybe ~ book
http://www.amazon.com/Japanese-Hiragana-Katakana-Beginners-Mastering/dp/4805311444/ref=pd_bxgy_sw_text_y



Start at "Immersion":
http://www.tofugu.com/2009/12/01/alternatives-to-rosetta-stone-japanese-i-e-should-i-buy-rosetta-stone/








Kanji: http://www.jlist.com/product/ASA051


PDF ~ http://mfadhillah.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/minna-no-nihongo-i-c3bcbersetzungen-grammatikalische-erklc3a4rungen-englisch.pdf#page=5
Companion Anki deck (of more:) https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1318921220



■ There is no short cut but practice every day.
■ Do not use romanized Japanese or Romaji (Japanese written in English letters).
■ Use Japanese TV to get your ears used to Japanese.
■ It is very important to learn Kana.
■ Try to learn as much kanji as you can by using different means like cards or so.
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Loose ends

http://guidetojapanese.org/completeguide.html

http://www.lltvg.com/wiki/Main_Page

http://libertyzero.com/voc_trainer/examples/
http://libertyzero.com/voc_trainer/

http://moritzmolch.com/1646

http://test.u-biq.org/
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Monday, November 17, 2014

My beginning



  1. Anki (Software) shared deck downloads
    1. Hiragana with stroke diagrams and audio
      • Hiragana is the alphabet of Japanese (the other two are not for absolute beginners)
    2. Regions and prefectures of Japan
    3. Prefectures in Japan
      • ˈprēˌfek(t)SHər/
        • a district under the government of a prefect 
  2. video.about.com/japanese/Learn-Japanese--What-Are-Hiragana-Characters-.htm
  3. [PPT] The Japanese Writing System
    • syllabaries
      • symbol for every syllable
        • called kana
          • vowels

    1. [PPT] Tips for learning Japanese: Research perspectives and ...


        • **Intrinsic motivation** - inherent pleasure doing it
          • IM-knowledge
            • pleasure felt learning new things
          • IM-accomplishments
            • enjoyment inherent in mastering challenges or grasping a difficult construct
              1. Identify long-term and short-term goals
              2. Make overall plan to achieve your short-term and long-term goals
              3. Choose a task to achieve short terms goals and work on it
              4. Choose an enjoyable task that is slightly difficult but not too difficult, such as reading books, watching anime or drama, listening to J-pop, playing games, etc. (IM-knowledge & IM-esthetics, IM-accomplishment) 
              5. Regularly check and reflect on what has worked or not worked, using checklists and logs. 
              6. If your original goals are found to be a bit unrealistic, modify your goals and plans to make them more realistic. 
              7. Relax and pay attention to the sign of stress. 
              8. Reward yourself when you have done well on a L2 task. 
              9. Do not compare yourself with others.
          • IM-stimulation
            • general aesthetic pleasure of the experience
              • e.g., the high that I experience while speaking
        • External motivation 
          • Integrated regulation
            • supports a valuable component of one’s identity and self-concept
          • Identified regulation 
            • learning will help achieve an important personal goal
          • Introjected regulation
            • Imposing pressure to perform an activity
              • e.g., I feel guilty if I didn’t know the language
          • External regulation
            • complete external control over the activity by the expectation of rewards or punishments
              • e.g. to get a job
        • Amotivation
          • absence of motivation
            • e.g., I don’t really understand what I am doing
        • Learning Strategies
          • techniques to support autonomous long-term learning
            • Memory Strategies 
              • Creating mental linkages, applying images and sounds, reviewing well, employing action 
            • Cognitive Strategies 
              • Practicing, receiving and sending messages, analyzing and reasoning, creating structure for input and output 
            • Compensation Strategies 
              • Guessing intelligently, overcoming limitations in speaking and writing
        • Speaking
          risk-taking, paraphrasing, circumlocution, self-monitoring, self-evaluation 
          Listening 
          elaborating, inferencing, selective attention, self-monitoring 
          Reading 
          whispered  reading, guessing, deduction, summarizing 
          Writing: 
          planning, self-monitoring, deduction, substitution 

        • Most classroom learners are taught declarative knowledge (knowing “that”). Key to successful language learning is how fast you can move from the declarative knowledge stage to the procedural knowledge stage (knowing “how”).
          • Doing; cannot be easily explained verbally, and cannot obtained without a lot of practice in using language
          • processed unconsciously and automatically~extremely fast language processing
        • Grammar
          • Grammar explanation helps to acquire the declarative knowledge, but it does not convert into the procedural knowledge without practice. 
          • Mechanical drills such as repetitions help improve pronunciation, but no correlation is found between the amount of participation in mechanical drills and grammatical acquisition. 
          • Repetition for confirmation/clarification checks are more effective in internalizing grammar.
            • Learn a lot of expressions that help you to negotiate meanings and use them during conversation (Long, 1991) 
              • Comprehension check (e.g.（私がいったことが／いみが） わかりますか？（この表現は／意味は）正しいですか。まちがっていませんか。） 
              • Confirmation check (e.g., 〜ですね。〜っていうことですか？〜っていいましたか, 〜ですか）
              • Repetition Clarification request （e.g, あのう、今よくわからなかったんですけど， 〜がわからなかったんですけど, もういちどいってくれませんか， 〜ってなんですか。
          • (See chat sites below.) After speaking 
            1. Try to write down what you have talked about and check the forms on your own. 
            2. Use check list (noticing log to find out what you have been able to or not able to do during the conversation.
        • [Where I left off:] Word knowledge (Mental lexicon) (Levelt, 1993)
    2. Speak in a Week email course
      • Info about learning a language
    3. One-on-one conversation sites
      1. http://sharedtalk.com/
      2. ? http://www.chaberi.com/
      3. ? http://www.excite.co.jp/
    4. keyboard 
      1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_input_methods
      2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyboard_layout#Japanese
        1. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ThinkPad_X1_Carbon_Japanese_Keyboard.jpg

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