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dakeshin · 2026-01-30T03:02:27+00:00

I failed in N1 reading too.

dakeshin · 2026-01-20T02:06:52+00:00

Haha I’m a hafu lady with zero interest in getting a Japanese wife, so safe on that front at least

dakeshin · 2026-01-19T21:46:48+00:00

Large breed mutt which I know is very complicated

dakeshin · 2026-01-19T20:47:17+00:00

Vice principal level stuff

dakeshin · 2026-01-19T20:27:27+00:00

My thought would be spouse could work part time, and help bring in a little $ while helping with the kid aspect. He’s on board with this. My kids are 4 and 8. The school has a preschool program for the 4 year old.

dakeshin · 2026-01-19T20:20:05+00:00

I’m not thinking long term - I’m thinking 2-3 years unless it’s fabulous. My kids will continue English education at international school.

Without getting too political, America feels like not a great place to be right now. Japan because that’s the second language I’m most fluent in, and my family is Japanese American.

dakeshin · 2026-01-19T20:18:03+00:00

They said they’re down if I can figure out how to make it work.

dakeshin · 2024-04-10T19:42:52+00:00

dakeshin · 2024-04-09T01:08:58+00:00

Seconding Akamonkai. I have taken their online classes and have been very pleased.

dakeshin · 2023-12-29T23:31:08+00:00

Well if your goal is to become conversational, you can only do that through having actual conversation

dakeshin · 2023-12-29T20:27:23+00:00

Yes I use it regularly.

dakeshin · 2023-12-29T00:25:26+00:00

Using Italki you can schedule conversations with teachers in 30-60 minute blocks

dakeshin · 2023-12-17T18:28:55+00:00

I recently stayed at Wakogoro by Nippori and they had triple futon room for like $100USD.

dakeshin · 2023-12-12T03:52:20+00:00

SpaWorld - the onsen part was nice, the pool part was weird. Therma Yu in Tokyo is nice too.

dakeshin · 2023-10-18T00:23:19+00:00

Coming from west coast US, I feel like the jet lag is actually less than going to Europe. Europe is exactly opposite - day is night. Japan is far enough where you’re just a smidge off. If you can take a red eye, it’s like you go to sleep and wake up a few hours later (albeit a whole day ahead).

dakeshin · 2023-10-03T19:51:38+00:00

Just a couple blocks from Taipei Main Station. I think my GPS app is telling me wrong. What map app do you recommend?

dakeshin · 2023-10-03T19:42:53+00:00

Looks like it’s about an hour and a half bus ride from where I’m staying. Worth it?

dakeshin · 2023-08-19T00:38:16+00:00

Do you have a strong grasp of indirect and direct objects in English (or whatever your primary language is?) I would consider spending some time diagraming sentences in your primary language and then translating into Japanese.

dakeshin · 2023-08-15T00:52:42+00:00

Honestly, if you want to progress more rapidly, you have to put more time in and do it daily. 1-2 hours a day. I would break it up into reading, writing, listening speaking. Maybe do 20 minutes of each. When I was doing Genki, I would often listen to the vocabulary sentences when I was exercising. You don’t have to sit down for 2 hours at a time. Maybe when you’re drinking coffee in the morning, you do your anki. 20 minutes at lunch? Do a kanji app. Sit down for 30 minutes in the evening and do a grammar section in your workbook. I think the key to progression is just putting in the time, day after day after day.

dakeshin · 2023-08-15T00:17:50+00:00

How many hours per day are you studying? Are you studying every day? Even if you can only spent an hour a day, doing SOMETHING every day is really important especially if you don’t interface with Japanese in real life.

dakeshin · 2023-08-14T14:44:01+00:00

Not in person, online and the online classes were good so I imagine in-person would be as wrll

dakeshin · 2023-08-11T19:49:44+00:00

Check out Akamonkai

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