{"id":584,"date":"2012-11-30T19:14:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-01T00:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/?p=584"},"modified":"2015-02-02T19:36:22","modified_gmt":"2015-02-03T00:36:22","slug":"dont-readme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/dont-readme\/","title":{"rendered":"Don&#8217;t README"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about how you shouldn&#8217;t be reading this post.<\/p>\n<p>Still here? Tsk tsk.<\/p>\n<p>Lately, I&#8217;ve been wrestling with the ratio of how much English vs Japanese to use in my guide. The more Japanese I can get you to read, the better. But if there&#8217;s too much, it will be too difficult and overwhelming, having the opposite effect.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve noticed that many websites for learning Japanese use WAY too much English. You can spend hours reading pages and pages of English text on how to learn Japanese (which seems ironic to me). This blog is mostly in English as well, so really, you should stop reading this and spend your time on something more productive.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll try to keep it short, then. If your Japanese study material consists of reading a lot of English, you might want to try something else that has more Japanese text. Oh, I dunno, maybe something like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/learn\/complete\/trying\">this<\/a>? (I know, totally no bias here).<\/p>\n<p>As a fellow Japanese learner, I should probably be writing this in Japanese too&#8230; \u3067\u3082\u3001\u3081\u3093\u3069\u304f\u3055\u3044\u304b\u3089\u3084\u3081\u3068\u3053\u3046\u3002<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is about how you shouldn&#8217;t be reading this post. Still here? Tsk tsk. Lately, I&#8217;ve been wrestling with the ratio of how much English vs Japanese to use in my guide. The more Japanese I can get you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/2012\/11\/30\/dont-readme\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning-resources","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.guidetojapanese.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}