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3.31.2009

Watch anime and Korean dramas for free!

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If you want to improve your Korean or Japanese, go to Crunchyroll . There are lots of Japanese anime (don't know if I should add an ...
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3.28.2009

Tears for Fears video: literal version

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Even though this is not one of my favorite Tears for Fears songs, the literal version of it is funny, especially if you've seen the real...
3.26.2009

Sounds desperate and niche

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I found an independent publisher that serves a total niche: ...professional development books for adjunct, part-time, full-time temporary a...
3.23.2009

Origins of Names of Days of the Week

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In my last installment , I discussed the names of months in Latin, Germanic, and Slavic languages. Now I'll give a brief, rather general...
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3.22.2009

On the air tonight/tomorrow morning

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In case you're up during the middle of the night (or if you live in another country, where our night is your day), you can hear me on th...
3.19.2009

Japanese commercial with English subtitles

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This is a good way to practice your Japanese because you can see the English translation beneath. It's also entertaining and combines hi...
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3.16.2009

I had to speak bad French

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I've translated French, but I haven't had to speak it for years. I think the last time I had a lengthy conversation was when I was t...
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3.14.2009

Subtle mockery in Burma

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I've been reading To the Golden Shore , which is a biography of Adoniram Judson, and it's really good, not just because of what he w...
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3.12.2009

Keitai Shosetsu (cell phone novels)

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I was reading about keitai shosetsu (ケータイ小説), which literally means cell phone [keitai] novel [shosetsu], and had no idea how popular they...
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3.09.2009

Origins of names of months

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Although the names of the months in English may seem quite mundane, the origins of some of their names are nothing short of divine. A trawl ...
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3.07.2009

A yeoman compliment

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Someone gave me a compliment, saying that my effort on a project was "yeoman's work." At first, I didn't know what they me...
3.04.2009

Real vs fake British accents

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This is funny: the characters from one of my favorite movies This is Spinal Tap were on a British TV morning show, and it's interesting...
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3.02.2009

I finally met a Japanese person

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There aren't a lot of Japanese people in Chicago, though there were more in the mid-80's to mid-90's before their economy starte...
2.28.2009

The difference between radio and teaching ESL

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I work in radio all week and then I teach ESL (English as a Second Language) on Saturdays. Usually when I wake up on Saturday, I'm so ti...
2.26.2009

The LA sun affected my blogging

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I was going to do some posts from LA--I went there this past weekend and just got back. But the good weather there affected my ability to th...
2.22.2009

Dialects With Armies and Navies

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While I was taking an introductory linguistics course in the early 1990s, I was fascinated by a theory presented in our textbook (and probab...
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2.19.2009

"Drunk" Japanese Finance Minister with Japanese Subtitles

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Watch more LiveLeak videos on AOL Video This video of the "drunk" (I put it in quotes because he didn't say he was) Finance M...
2.17.2009

The Hague is Den Haag to me

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I grew up hearing about The Hague , and to me, it was always "The Hague" because I speak English and that's obviously its Engl...
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2.12.2009

Want to write, but afraid

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I'm sure there are a handful of people out there who've been reading this blog for a while, and there were times in the past when I ...
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2.09.2009

Constructed International Auxiliary Languages

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In my last post I wrote about lingua francas, languages used to facilitate communication between groups that speak different languages. An ...
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