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The Two Pillars of Success

There are two pillars to success when learning any language: vocabulary and grammar. The thing about them is, they are actually rather orthogonal to each other. Even in Japanese, as long as you learn the dictionary form (or to some degree even the polite form of the word) you don’t need to worry too much about how to use it to know the word. You need to know both, obviously, but you can work on both separately, and not lose anything when it comes to learning whatever language you’re trying… Read More »The Two Pillars of Success