2023 mid-year retrospective Reflecting on my health, Japanese progress, career aspirations, and life beyond work.
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.
(Re) learning Japanese, 3.5 months later How far I've come, what habits I've established, what has and hasn't worked.
(Re)learning Japanese Reflecting on my language learning journey as an adult, from Japanese to nothing to Spanish to nothing to Japanese