He who tries to defend everything, defends nothing. –Frederick the Great Okay, so that quote doesn’t directly fit the title (or this article), but a modification of it does. He who tries to learn everything, learns nothing. This, however, does match my point. Many, many times there are great ideas that fall to the wayside because of a lack of focus. Many times I, too, have been guilty of this. It’s ever-to-tempting to bounce around in Japanese, not focusing on any one thing.{{1}} It’s an easy trap to fall into: you start Kanji, but then realize you need kana too. While jumping to hiragana, you realize you need to learn both sets of kana and how to read them. Soon after, that annoying little voice inside your head{{2}} reminds you that you need to be able to understand it, speak […]
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