Japan Travel Tips: Internet+

A hopefully more nuanced guide to Internet, especially pocket wifi, in Japan, depending on your needs.

Japan 2023: Partner Itinerary

A 16-day plan for Japan at the beginning of cherry blossom season, complete with business hotels, hot spring Japanese inns, a nice hostel, a lovel hotel, and a temple stay.

Ghost woes: swap memory, 502s

Solving memory problems with upgrading Ghost on a basic Ubuntu box with 1GB RAM.

Pizza dough

From Brian Lagerstrom's Youtube series.

200 days of Duolingo

Thoughts on using Duolingo for about 7 months as a supplementary language game for my Japanese language (re)learning.

Review 2: Remembering the Kanji, vol 1

On making it halfway (1,100 out of 2,200) to kanji "literacy" in 4 months with Remembering the Kanji.

Review 1: Remembering the Kanji, vol. 1

2 months, 520+ kanji later, here are my thoughts on learning kanji and primitives through Heisig's classic textbook series and a related Anki deck.

Translation: 桜の森

Translating from Japanese to English one of my favorite songs: Sakura no Mori, or Cherry Blossom Forrest, by Gen Hoshino.

Particles in Japanese

Notes from Tae Kim's grammar guide.