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Sunday, April 27, 2025

Turkish language

 How does fascination with a language start? uzak sehir

Some words sound similar to the language you know or you are able to isolate some words.

Turkish in three months

searchable

agglutinative languages

matematikselorg 

This is beautiful like a poem. 

Bu bir şiir gibi güzel. 

これは詩のように美しい. 

Kore wa uta no yō ni utsukushī


göreceğiz - we will see


Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese

Yookoso! An Invitation to Contemporary Japanese


 Yookoso



Confines of a poem

 

Dear Writer: Pep Talks & Practical Advice for the Creative Life

"when a poem feels too confining for an idea " 
After coming across this line in the book, I wondered , what does confined space in a poem feel like. The word itself has some finesse, I looked for its etymology. border. what about border's etymology. board. How are they related? board like boarding school. I have been in a boarding school. confining it is.

The writing board
took on stripes
of yellow
blobs of geen
blue smudges
dark blue
finger prints
red rain

A receptacle
of Pollock's
pent up energy

Who sheared the fog from the mountain?

While reading the poetry book, I was reminded of music from 25 years ago. kismat se tum hamko mile ho

Saturday, April 26, 2025

Idioms

Money grows on the tree of persistence

I came across this Japanese proverb. I wanted to see it in Japanese and was surprised at the conciseness of the characters.

There comes a time when you have to make your language learning interactive. 

English Idioms Target 1000 5th Edition has English idioms usage in Japanese. preview

英熟語ターゲット1000 5訂版 book 

preparation for test

Saturday, April 5, 2025

Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons

 

Basic Japanese: Learn to Speak Everyday Japanese in 10 Carefully Structured Lessons (Audio Recordings Included)


Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure

Japanese the Manga Way: An Illustrated Guide to Grammar and Structure

This takes your Japanese reading to another level.



 

Tadoku online free reading Japanese

I learned about ekiben today. Stories read

Chiwawa no Hanasuke

Stories recommended

Kareshi hashii


衣食住 = いしょくじゅう is  roti, kapda, makaan -- tortilla, clothes and house

A 5 language dictionary

 

Firefly 5 Language Visual Dictionary: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish

This way you can see the commonalities and the differences between the words.


Chinese

 Chinese made easy

New Practical Chinese Reader Vol1 Textbook companion videos

The power of Words

Easy French Step By Step

Thursday, April 3, 2025

Rookie mistake

 It might seem like a rookie mistake, when you see an executive, who has been a CFO earlier to order more supplies, when there is lot of inventory. With little knowledge thats a no-no but remember any midpoint looks the same going up or going down.

There must be the behavior component or the ostrich burying its head in the sand, to not see whats going on or assume that the burning platform can still be saved. The speed at which things change or the interconnectedness of things (some Unintended consequences), that have been not considered might not leave much leeway.

"Which means you’ve got to anticipate what’s going to happen based on all the trends. You’ve got to look at the trends constantly, you know, read lots of signals." - Indra Nooyi.


Have a future back strategy and anticipate what going wrong might look like and steer ship.


Who pays generous credit card rewards

IRA to employer sponsored 401k, IRA to HSA

 It's important to plan carefully to avoid complications with the pro-rata rule, which determines how much of your conversion is taxable if you have both pre-tax and after-tax IRA balances. One way to streamline this process is to transfer pre-tax IRA amounts to an employer-sponsored 401(k) plan, keeping the Backdoor Roth strategy focused on after-tax balances.


and Direct Indexing - tax flexibility


One tiem transfer of IRA to HSA.