Which is harder? Japanese or Korean?
In my previous post, I compared the difficulty of Japanese and (Mandarin) Chinese by looking at several aspects of the two languages. As I suspected, this drew out a large number of responses (or at...
View ArticleWhen to use (and not use) grammar
I’m a huge believer in using grammar as a tool for understanding and learning how to speak Japanese. So much so that I built a whole website about it. However, when I ran across a list of Korean...
View ArticleSaturday morning
It’s allergy season and my nose has been acting up. This morning, my almost 2-year old daughter pointed at my nose and said, “hana”. I replied, “Yeah, hana.” She replied, “One, two.”
View ArticleThis is pretty much racism…
For crying out loud, I don’t want to write about political BS on my blog but this is just too ridiculous. Here’s a news article about a Korean textbook that had pictures of Japanese people in it. OH MY...
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