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A hack for learning Japanese, or a hack for getting inadvertent upvotes? :) I seem to recall there were books that used that style of progressive foreign langu
by biot 10y ago
A hack for learning Japanese, or a hack for getting inadvertent upvotes? :)
I seem to recall there were books that used that style of progressive foreign language learning, where they started out replacing a single word and then kept replacing more and more until, at the end, the entire story was written in the foreign language.
- ChuckMcM 10y agoA meta HN post composed entirely of previous HN posts.
- gleenn 10y agoWhat do they call that kind of book? I think that'd be an awesome way to learn Japanese.
- foota 10y agoVery interested to know as well.
- biot 10y agoI'm not sure. It might even have been an idea I had years ago and am misremembering as an actual thing. Either way, I'd buy those kinds of books, so someone please start writing them. :)
- whiteandnerdy 10y agoMaybe you're thinking of https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1405842914/learn-languages-through-stories https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1405842914/learn-langua...? That's all I could find by googling around.
- escape_goat 10y agoI feel sort of like it's a fun hack for getting email addresses within minimal effort, but the material wasn't entirely new to me, so perhaps I am underestimating how genuinely interesting it was to other people.
- asadlionpk 10y agoI would love to know about this too!