When I was in Taiwan (learning Mandarin to learn about learning Japanese... and attending a friend's wedding) we took an off-day to visit Jiufen, the town that inspired the town and bathhouse in one of Miyazaki's greatest … [Read more...]
To fling poo, or not to fling poo. That is the question. In previous "Obvious" posts, we've gone over both the idea of achieving and noticing more epiphanies (because all people need to have X number of epiphanies to … [Read more...]
Okay, fine, so that's a picture of Captain Hindsight and not a picture of Captain Obvious, but it's still sort of the same meessage: In order to know Japanese, Japanese has to be Obvious to you. D'uh. That's pretty obvious … [Read more...]
One of the biggest accomplishments in sports in the last hundred years was the 4 minute mile. Running a mile in under 4 minutes was a huge barrier in sports and once it was broken by one person, led the way for lots of … [Read more...]
Sometimes we forget that the hard part about learning Japanese is actually just doing it. We whinge and we complain and we spend so much time preparing or learning how you should learn Japanese that we forget to just learn … [Read more...]