Language exchange

 If you are in on what the reverse language learners ie native speakers of the language that you are trying to learn, intersted in learning the language you already know then there is a bit of alignment in terms of the level of ease or difficulty of words athat you are both trying to learn.

Language is new and concious is older

 Why is the unconsconscious reluctant to talk in language? from Couldn't Care Less. Cormac McCarthy in conversation with David Krakauer

This morning I woke up with some Japanese words rhyming.. getsukon, kekkon, poskon .. 

Learnign a bit of katakana with List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms

Kichouhin

Japanese in record time

 

The other day I went late to a Japanese class because I was tied up with teaching a Telugu class. I was prepared for the class thoguh with the meanings written out for the new words except for a few. From the meaning shared by the classmates, I understood it was meant to be 'valuables' because I remember from the hotel conversation in this Japanese in record time book. I checked back today and it is that.

After a bit I tried to recall the word and recalled the romaji of it. I feel thats ok, whatever makes the connection. It will be a long time before I can remember the words from hiragana and Kanji. Currently its by sound and meaning association.

I am happy for this journey which is making me learn from the books I stashed from 2002 and 2007.

sentence mining

11/10/24

My eyes have now opened to see this as two books. A book to learn Japanese for English learners and a book to learn English for Japanese learners. That is what a brdige is all about, taking people both ways. A river. 

Chinese writing haracter evolution

 give or bestow character evolution

説文解字

wiki

shuo wen jie zi

Presence Exercise

 

Japan's 72 microseasons

Notice the changes around you.

October 28–November 1

霎時施 Kosame tokidoki furu

Light rains sometimes fall

Last week, we had the 'there, not there rain'

yesterday the clouds made a big painting like an abstract ribbed painting that I have in the garage, salvaged by dumpster diving.

November 2–6

楓蔦黄 Momiji tsuta kibamu

Maple leaves and ivy turn yellow

As most of the leaves turn yellow, dry, wan. there are some hopeful buds with green.

Morning daze

 image trick

Look at the above image slowly. I saw a crystal ball being filled with water. 

"Then your brain needs to know how much water you are taking in to figure out when you should stop. It can't wait until the water gets absorbed into the bloodstream because that can take 15 minutes or more."

"But it's "surprising" that the detection mechanism uses a hormone as an intermediary, rather than sending the message directly, Browning says."

Apostrophe poem

 To a blossoming saguaro

An apostrophe poem

Aging brain

 Neurobic exercises

Park view

 Every morning

the tree looks

at its shadow

My shadow

fills the field

A grey stick with

black marks here

and there like

the pockmarked

concrete path

its leaning on

Vermilion fly catcher

moves from tree to

tree

A couple

taking a walk

the lafy finds

a bench

and does a

box jump

confidence

springing

Core2k like

Heard of core2k in this video How to get SO good at Japanese you stop thinking in English

ajatt

 Optimized Kore - 6k

50000 Japanese sentences

Pimsleur

Japanese Level 1

Japanese

I was planning on learning writing down the sentences heard in the Pimsleur lesson. Turns out that line 31 of 6k was one of the lines I learned by audio cementing it even more.

Poetry for Coaching

 

Poetry Tables: How to Create Profound Experiences of Courage, Connection, and Community Using Poetry 

While looking for poetry for coaching book, I came across this book poetry tables book, where in small group of 3-5, participants read some poems on their own and then select one to share as to why it means so much to them.

I love etymology poems.  eg Vikings window Carl philip poem. I need to research more about avis to auspicious. I was wonderign about Japanese etymology. Kids have been telling me about the Rose & Bruno Mars apato song and that apato means apartment.

It is amazing how different people get different things out of a poem. I saw a set of lines Seamus Heaney poem in The survival of the sickest book and was curious about the rest of the poem. Turns out that this is towards the end of the poem but another enthusiast found meaning in another section of the poem. It is interesting that the poet has this magic of connecting with different set of people through the same poem.

It might be these kind of lessons that some of the Poetry Table participants go home with. The elephant and the four blind men.

Nihonjinron

Longpoem

 longpoem submissions

While looking at how to write along poem, I heard Ron Padgett: Reading and Writing Long Poems and Anne Waldman: Reading and Writing Long Poems. They had many references to other long poems.

armature

Cats as Stations

 Cats Suggested as The Fifty-three Stations of the Tōkaidō, by Utagawa Kuniyoshi, 1850

Reading the Law to Lawyer

 Did Abrahma Lincoln go to law school

Reading the Law in some states as a way to become a lawyer 

Audio

 Oral history