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A Rare Mea Culpa

Posted on September 2, 2022 by bakatsundoku

Anyone who knows me, knows that I don’t apologize.  For almost anything.  Even if I’m wrong, I take it as a learning experience and consider that I was making the best judgement, decision, or what-not that I could have made at the time.  Apologizing only seems to feed the monster

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Nobody Cares Anymore

Posted on June 26, 2022 by bakatsundoku

I have a confession to make.  Well, is it a confession?  I guess it’s something you didn’t know that you will in a few seconds. I hate misspelling, mispronunciation (with caveats), and bad grammar. What I particularly hate is that no one seems to even care about misspelling, mispronunciation, and bad

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Fluency in Language and Music

Posted on June 19, 2022 by bakatsundoku

One things that people don’t know about me is that I am – or at least was at one time – a pretty accomplished pianist.  I’ve played professionally.  Specifically, in the community theater productions of a small town in Iowa.  Long story. But last night I was just playing around

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The Three Japanese Cultures

Posted on June 12, 2022 by bakatsundoku

Hi!  It’s been a while since I posted here, so I have a lot to say.  Truth be told, I don’t really think I’m fond of the blogging method of expressing myself, but I haven’t come up with anything better yet.  I’m working on it, though!  First, an update. The

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Japanese, Personal, Pop Culture, Social Justice Anime, cosplay, cultural appropriation, culture, japanese, kawaii, otaku Leave a comment

Japanese Hurts

Posted on March 28, 2022 by bakatsundoku

I honestly don’t know how to say what I want to here, so I’m going to start with the title and move out from there.  That seems to work for me, sometimes. I have completely stopped my study of Japanese, and I don’t know if I will ever start again. 

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Christmas Musings – Japanese and Me

Posted on December 25, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Umm… Merry Christmas, I guess.  I’m not huge on Christmas but it’s a day off, so yay. So I’ve been thinking a little more on Japanese, its role in culture, and its role in my life. I’ve been thinking about what Japanese is, in my culture.  I’ve been thinking about

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Japanese: a Failed Experiment – Part Deux

Posted on November 14, 2021November 14, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I attempted to write this post previously but it took on a tone I didn’t like, so I’m going to try to redo it.  Last time I talked about why I consider learning Japanese a personal failure.  Now I want to talk about why I don’t think it is. Oh,

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Japanese: a Failed Experiment (But Not Entirely)

Posted on November 13, 2021November 13, 2021 by bakatsundoku

Ever since I began this blog, there have been a few ongoing themes.  The one that really permeated the entire blog was the following question:  Why am I bothering?  Over the last few years, it’s perhaps the most important question, and the one I had the most difficulty answering. I

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Introducing… Hidden Japanese!!

Posted on September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 by bakatsundoku

I’ve been busy!!! So, as I was looking back on some of my earlier posts, I had made a few observations of discoveries I’d made about Japanese, but they got lost in the noise of my emo angst and whining.  So I decided that it would make sense to make

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Hentaigana, and the Frustration of Learning Japanese

Posted on September 11, 2021September 11, 2021 by bakatsundoku

While I was doing research for another project I was doing, I went down a bit of a rabbithole.  I was trying to explain (and make sure I understood) the uses of voiced vs. unvoiced consonants.  I found a bunch of interesting things.  One was that there are some kana

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