Massive training

All Japanese All The Time Dot Com is a vista into the present and future of self-learning. I don't associate to anything cultural and the standards the author and his followers are into. No anime, no manga, and we don't listen to the same tunes. AJAT needs to self-depreciate his own turf, that "other side" of language registry, that "Stuff that you feel guilty about doing because you should be doing “serious things”, to justify his approach. This argument is wearing off and I could flip it the same in reverse. Or I could simply, without accusing that other side of total dumbness (some though) that, "serious things" are seriously exciting, satisfying, mind fulfilling for others, and stating it should not be a declaration of war. I love "serious things", and I love working my Japanese with "serious things". Matter of generations. But once you go through the muck of in your face language and the mix of bragging with humility and humor (amazing how these authors replicate the magazines styles around, or is it the reverse?), once you see what the author could sum up in shorter sentences, you discover that he is right into the same track that you are in : massive, sustained, tenacious training. And we overlap with some content and strategies as well. Isn't it wonderful? It is. I am not a user of spaced repetition software although I did try, but the author is right on track, although not a new one, when stressing again and again that what works is massive training, period. It's new and there is nothing new with it at the same time. The sentence I picked up last time about the training method for US army personal to be landed in Japan 60 years ago was exactly the same, although now, we have tools and sources to make things tremendously powerful. What the author also explicitly points at is the obsolescence of schools and the standard didactic framework. What is also to turn obsolete is the standard language manual, that is, until efforts like AJAT generate the new manuals, be it online or a mix of paper and online. Schools, as locations for reunion, sharing and reciprocal comforting and cheering are now online, although not organized as schools. Learning communities must be designed as the future schools where to find strategies, pals to discuss strategies, and group nurturing opportunities. But we are talking about the same thing albeit the language. So I invite you to peer into AJAT.