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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2026 12:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I’m Duolingo’d out. I have long had an affection for the idea of this app. I was one of their early users, I cranked through the French lessons for well over a year-long streak back when I was commuting to work downtown on the train and would sit in a little bench seat and churn [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What was the best anything that you read in 2025? Japanese signage.&#160; I’ve never been a great student of language.&#160; In grade school, having started elementary in a town that was apparently not following the provincial French language requirements for the curriculum, we moved and my new school dropped me into learning our second national [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What excited you most in 2025? It turns out there are two subtly different terms for non-Asian people who find themselves with an interest in Japan: one can be a japanophile &#8230;or one can be a weeaboo (or weeb). Both are similar terms, but like anything we do in this crazy culture of ours one [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[What do you want to learn in 2026? I mean, heck, if I put one more thing on my list of side gigs and hobbies I’m going to burst.&#160; Art, music, languages, code, swimming, running, cooking, creative writing, and… deep breath… jeeze, I can’t even remember all the little hobby projects and learning adventures I’ve [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>japanese, part three</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Oct 2025 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am approaching fifty, but attending an introductory language class kinda makes me feel like I’m in kindergarten again. We count in unison, ask each other our names and ages, play games identifying colours, and get stickers for good work.&#160; I also have the least interesting origin story of the bunch, I’ve concluded. Everyone else [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[How’s it going? Hajimemashita&#160; はじめまして。&#160; Yesterday was oddly milestone-ish for my language learning. Not only did I hit the two hundred consecutive days in Duolingo, but my second night at my in person language classes went a lot better than the first. Bank on that also in the last couple weeks we have secured tickets [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I have written here previously about a couple of my self-study efforts to start learning Japanese, in part for our upcoming trip to Tokyo, but also just as—well—something interesting to pursue. Skills, languages, all that stuff—it broadens the mind, right? I figured I would make my updates a bit more formal because as of last [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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					<description><![CDATA[I resist the label of dilettante. That said, it may just be the most accurate representation of my entry-level approach to many of my artistic pursuits. It is, after all, the goal of most anyone to rise above what is largely considered to be a negative branding of one’s effort towards any creative interest.&#160; Is [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2025 16:32:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Our plans to leap over the Pacific are become more real with each passing day, and my progress in dabbling in acquiring at least some Japanese language prior to that trip is progressing with promise. Sorta. Fluency? Heck no. But I am hopeful that I won&#8217;t be completely overwhelmed by even simple basics in a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Brad Salomons]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Jun 2025 16:02:33 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hey. This isn’t my first mythic quest for enlightment. I’ve jumped on the whole mediation bandwagon time and again over the course of my life. Sitting still. Breathing. Realizing my eyes are dancing around behind my eyelids and wondering if that’s normal while little gong noises play from the speaker on my phone. Okay, maybe [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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