I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: my introduction to Japanese came from a desire to learn a language comprised of symbols. Nothing more, nothing less. Before stumbling across Japanese, having always been the avid student of romance languages, I had thought that alphabets were ace and symbols were stupid. How could a [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]