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January began with good intentions and an old mistake. I pulled out my Japanese textbooks and told myself I would finally be consistent. Within minutes, I remembered why I had quit before. Gra...

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What My Students Taught Me About Being a Student

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After our class greeting, I watch my fifth-graders automatically break into pairs, speeches in hand. One student recites her lines while her partner reads along, correcting her pronunciation before I’ve even...

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Reading Japanese After Two Years Away

I don’t think I stopped reading Japanese on purpose. I just kept choosing easier things instead. It had been about two years since I last read a Japanese book for fun.

Of course, I did not plan it that way. Life got busy, routines narrowed...

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30 Days of Ondoku: What Actually Happened 📖

A month ago, I bought a book with an ambitious title:

Improve your memory just by reading one sentence a day! Adult Read‑Aloud Practice.

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It isn’t meant for language learners. It’s marketed to...

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A framework for the long game 🗺️ 9/9

This post is part of a series, Learning Languages as an Adult, a research-informed look at what progress, pauses, and returning actually look like for adult learners.


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    Pleasantly persistent Asian American EFL teacher in Japan. Grew up bilingual, now humbling myself through adult Japanese acquisition. TESOL MA. Language learning for busy adults, teaching insights, study systems, and thoughtful experiments.

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