Recent Posts

• 2025-11-05 The "I made this myself" affect

  I made WAY too many software tools when I first started learning Japanese 😅

• 2025-11-04 Looking back to go forward

  I recently rediscovered a language learning gem from my early days of Japanese self-study, and it's still surprisingly useful!

• 2025-11-03 Cozy fall books of 2025

  It's official. I've fallen down what is possibly the most friendly of reading rabbit-holes.

• 2025-11-01 A pile of small, bad ideas

  One could even argue that the final result of all this puttering isn't going to teach me a prolific amount of vocabulary, so was the point of putting in all that time?

• 2025-10-18 My next language learning challenge

  Surrounded by yet another new environment, my language learning approach is going to have to change again as well.