Koguryo and the origins of Japanese
While I do hope to learn Japanese one day to read the works of such great novelists as Kawabata and Mishima, I doubt I will ever be more than the most casual of dilettantes in Japanese historical...
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One thing that has put me off learning Japanese is the trend for a foreigner to be increasingly shunned by Japanese society as his language skills improve. It’s considered cute if a foreigner makes a...
View ArticleSibagu: Bird names in languages of Asia
Every time I’ve learned a new Uralic or Turkic language in the last decade, I’ve had to quickly learn the names of trees, birds and fish. For peoples maintaining a rural way of life, these are...
View ArticleKoguryo and the origins of Japanese
While I do hope to learn Japanese one day to read the works of such great novelists as Kawabata and Mishima, I doubt I will ever be more than the most casual of dilettantes in Japanese historical...
View ArticleJapanese and the exclusion of foreigners
One thing that has put me off learning Japanese is the trend for a foreigner to be increasingly shunned by Japanese society as his language skills improve. It’s considered cute if a foreigner makes a...
View ArticleSibagu: Bird names in languages of Asia
Every time I’ve learned a new Uralic or Turkic language in the last decade, I’ve had to quickly learn the names of trees, birds and fish. For peoples maintaining a rural way of life, these are...
View ArticleKoguryo and the origins of Japanese
While I do hope to learn Japanese one day to read the works of such great novelists as Kawabata and Mishima, I doubt I will ever be more than the most casual of dilettantes in Japanese historical...
View ArticleJapanese and the exclusion of foreigners
One thing that has put me off learning Japanese is the trend for a foreigner to be increasingly shunned by Japanese society as his language skills improve. It’s considered cute if a foreigner makes a...
View ArticleSibagu: Bird names in languages of Asia
Every time I’ve learned a new Uralic or Turkic language in the last decade, I’ve had to quickly learn the names of trees, birds and fish. For peoples maintaining a rural way of life, these are...
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