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
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
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
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
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.
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
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,
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
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
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