Thanks to the nearly infinite resources available on the internet, studying a foreign language like Japanese on your own has become much easier than ten or twenty years ago. You can learn about many of the finer points of the language, including grammar, and even enjoy online media in that language using things like novels… Read More »
When we chose our latest place to live, we decided to give priority to inside the house and less concern for the backyard. Not only is our backyard small, but a large patio covers up a big portion of the grass, leaving an awkwardly-sized space that isn’t good for much of anything. I guess we… Read More »
(Update: my feelings about Ki-Aikido have changed somewhat since I wrote this article, especially how it differs from other styles of Aikido. I will keep this article for historical reasons, but hope to write more on this topic eventually). Over 3 years ago, I posted an article about the Japanese martial art Aikido (合気道) in which… Read More »
In several past posts I’ve mentioned how children’s books are a great way to help train your reading skills in Japanese, one of the main reasons being you usually don’t have to worry about knowing kanji (or even katakana for that matter) since furigana reading hints will be comprehensively used. While you can run into… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Selected Photos Unlike our last trip to Japan (which I blogged about in detail here), we didn’t bring any expensive cameras to Hawaii. But we ended up taking… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Final Words For our first trip to Hawaii, I think we got a lot done in only a week’s time without pushing ourselves too hard. It was a… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Culture and Societal Notes Just by spending a week in Hawaii mostly on touristy areas in Oahu it’s difficult to really get a good feel for Hawaii’s culture.… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Waikiki Notes I’ve already written about a few places in Waikiki we visited, but I wanted to spend a little more time discussing Waikiki as a whole. My… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Bishop Museum We stopped by the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, more formally called The Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum after hearing a recommendation from a Taxi driver about it.… Read More »
This article is a part of series of articles about my 2017 trip to Hawaii. Please see the table of contents that contains links to other chapters. Linguistic Notes If you’ve read the other articles in this series, you can probably tell I was thinking about language fairly often in the back of my mind… Read More »