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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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655 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.199s | source
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mark38848 ◴[18 May 25 12:49 UTC] No.44021015[source]▶
Why does everybody want to learn Japanese? What makes Japanese so enticing? Why not Mandarin or at lead Spanish?
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1. jwrallie ◴[18 May 25 13:10 UTC] No.44021161[source]▶
When I was a kid, most of the foreign culture I was exposed from came from the US, and then Japan followed with a small amount.

No wonder my second language was English and third language Japanese.

Never heard a single word of Mandarin in any media I was exposed to. I can understand Spanish very well but I do not count it as a learned language as it is too close to Portuguese (my first language).