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What is the Purpose of Study?

Tuesday, May 6, 2008

First off, my apologies for falling behind in posting.  I was doing some experimentation with learning Japanese.  But it all relates to the question at hand.  What is “study” for?
This question isn’t unique to language learning, we could ask it for anything that takes years to learn.  But it’s a question that, I think, is [...]

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Exile Catchy Best - Well Said.

Thursday, April 24, 2008

Exile Catchy Best….Catchy….Catchy Best.  In English that sounds absolutely horrible.  No English pop group would dare put such a name on their album but there it is on a new best hits album from the J-Pop group Exile.
Sometimes it seems like the Japanese are intentionally butchering English to make some crazy point.
In Japanese, “Catchy Best” [...]

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