Before starting with a personal tutor, I’d been learning Japanese for a good long time, straight from a home study guide. With the over dramatised conversation pieces on the included CD being my only intake of spoken Japanese each week, I was getting to the point where I thought that all Japanese companies had an [...]
Coming home from my Japanese lesson on Thursday, I suddenly realised that what I thought was just a pull in my sweater of learning had actually unravelled, without my knowledge, and an entire arm had fallen off. Apart from the need to get a serious mender on the case, I also thought I’d pose the [...]
Okay, okay, so I know that C*R-h seems to have gone wabisabi potty at the moment, but I just have to show you this run of photos which I believe to be some really good instances of it.
Language is fascinating. It’s organic, living, breathing, tangled, misinterpreted, overused, misrepresented, joyous and troublesome. Looking back into history, it seems that most languages have sprawled out from their epicentres, and, wherever people have gone, they have followed, like ivy left to grow of its own accord, assimilating and overtaking everything in their wake. Languages are [...]