I'm also curious about this. To my knowledge I managed to learn a good amount of Japanese by literally studying every day for 1-2 hours, listen to a good amount of Japanese music. Rented Japanese books to see if I could recognize any symbols and try to figure out what the book was about. I hope this helps.
I committed to this for 6 months. Also I studied around the same time every day.
What also helped me was that on the course of the day I would force myself to count in Japanese and to try to think in Japanese. Sometimes I would be so distracted that I would catch myself actually thinking in Japanese for a good amount of time.
How far would you say you got at the end of 6 months? I took a Japanese 101 class a couple years ago and still remember some basic phrases/verbs/etc and how to read katakana and hiragana as well as probably 50 or so kanji. Been thinking about getting back into it so that I can at least use it at some semi-basic conversational level for my trip.
I would say that I got to the point that I was able to understand the majority of the words on Japanese songs and movies. The reading part on the other hand was another story. Talking I was at a elementary level. I was able to defend myself somewhat.
The same happened to me at 17 and keept it going till I was 19. I really didn't buy that many Amway products, but I did enjoy reading the monthly self help books they sent, many of those books were really helpful.
I was active for about 18 months, and probably would have stayed longer if I had a single sales bone in my body.
I mostly enjoyed listening to the stories of those above me (I never made more than $400-500/mo so that was most people who weren't losing money) but of course I paid for those CDs so in the end I made much less money than it looked like I did on paper.
I do like the concept of being positive, visualizing your future, making a plan to reach it, etc. It's a shame it's so closely ingrained with a company selling dish soap and disgusting energy drinks, though!
Seriously - as a teenager with way too many hormones doing all sorts of crazy shit to your brain, it was nice being around people that were so grounded. The books added to that. The perspective I had at 16 can only be attributed to "the system" they talk about in the article.
This should be interesting. I would actually buy a considerable amount of snap-stock(snapchat stock). I just hope if there is ever an IPO; that the price holds, and climbs up not just only disappears like its messages pun intended.
This is just an idea. It being feasible depends if it goes viral. Use the $20 to run a VM for the 90 days. Host a minimal viable product with different micro services that people will want to use, and charge like 1-5 dollars depending on the microservice. One microservice could be: A person uploads a recording of someone talking, then it gets transcribed and emailed to them as a word document. All must be automated.
True. they have to monetize their acquisition somehow. I could now see many angry people getting a bunch of unwanted calls. This should be fun to see unravel.
This are some news I am not happy to hear since I am a really heavy user of WhatsApp. I gues is time to move over to Telegram or I could give Signal Private Messenger a try.
That may be it. Maybe I need to find friends who I really click with,aside from the current ones that I have.
Focusing on small things/projects is what I will start doing. The last thing you wrote reminded me of something I had already long forgotten.
Sincerely thank you.
I know my question seemed vague, and lacked information. I never thought about it that way. I will try my best to focus on what is ahead and work out a definite plan to follow.
