I am a computer engineer. Before I learned Japanese, I have learned about sixteen different computer languages to a degree of proficiency with which I can make production applications out of them. In doing so, I realized that there are features every language that runs on a procedural basis will
Ogawa Makoto is a former Morning Musume idol, who took a couple of years off of performing to go to New Zealand to learn English. She recounted her experience in words similar to this (and I’m paraphrasing because I don’t remember them entirely): I went to New Zealand to learn
In computer science, there is a concept called bootstrapping. It applies primarily at two points: The first is when you start a computer up, and the second is when you write a new language. It refers to “pulling yourself up by your own bootstraps”. When you begin writing another language,