My girlfriend Shannon adores animals of all shapes and sizes, the fluffier the better. As such, we made it a mission to visit as many of Japan's animal attractions as possible. Japan is well known for having cat cafe's, but there are a range of different animal 'cafe's' and parks …
What do I mean by a 'Genre Review'? From time to time I get an itch for a topic and want to learn everything I can. This usually results in me reading 5-10 books on the subject, chosen by spending a few hours poring over reviews and winnowing down to …
Previously I spoke about what I learned studying French, and how Japanese differs. In this article I want to talk about how to actually learn Japanese, or at least, how I'm learning it. This is a rather long post, so I'll ToC it up: Table of Contents Components Of The …
I've been learning Japanese for the last six months and I'm writing a couple of posts on how I'm going about it. My aim is both to help others who want to learn (whether they're friends who asked, or people stumbling on this article from Google), and to track my …
I spent two weeks last month in the US for work, not the first time I've done so if you remember a post from last year. I've been pretty busy with work, actually, part of why I've dropped back to fortnightly posts. Seattle I was pretty stunned coming in as …
