Special note: I am posting this entry late, for which I offer my apologies. In the past few days I have done 13 more Pimsleur lessons. Some of them I did while running in Central Park (I would be able to…
Regarding the title of this entry: I don’t normally say “awesome.” I just felt like it. I have been doing flashcards for the past couple of days. I love flashcards. There are 1,000 study cards in this SparkNotes box, and…
Yesterday I ran the first points race of the 2011 New York Road Runners season in Washington Heights. “Points race” means it counts towards the year-long competition among the local running teams. It was raining and hilly, but since I kind…
I got back late last night from Michigan, where I taught a grammar class yesterday at a Kalamazoo company. I love teaching grammar classes for adults. My Seatmates on the Flight Home Last Night People care about grammar, I think,…
I have returned to doing Pimsleur lessons while running. With the easier languages, I find it possible. With harder languages, it is often too hard; I run out of air and brain fuel. Tiny iPod Nano Holds Large Quantity of…
I was very excited about Day 1 of French when I woke up. For one thing, French will be like a relaxing beach vacation after the rigors of Japanese! (Though actually, I am not all that big on relaxing beach vacations.) …
I did not finish all the Pimsleur lessons. That bugs me. In the end I had about 4.5 lessons left, and I really needed to redo another five or so of them. Oh, well. In recent days I enjoyed a number…
I investigated visiting a private Japanese club the other day. I thought it would be very interesting. Unfortunately, I would say the exchange resulted in a miscommunication, since the outcome was that I was told by e-mail, “Please don’t…
Last night Reiko Sassa, director of the Toyota Language Center at Japan Society, let me sit in on a class! They have a gazillion classes; this one was level 3b. Where I Went to School Today It was tremendous fun.…
Today was the 600th day of this language project. In 600 days, I have never spent less than half an hour studying whatever foreign language I was working on, and on the overwhelming majority of days I have studied two hours…
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