Interesting article! You can use PayPay (a smartphone e-payment service) to make donations at some shrines and temples in Japan now.

First time snowboarding 🏂

(I took lessons in Japanese and the instructor was great!)

When I’m really tired, I:

- become way less talkative in my TL, Japanese

- can’t stop talking about random things in my native English 😅

#langsky

#langsky being a beginner in my target language was the hardest stage for me. I couldn’t really engage with native materials/activities that interested me, or express myself and my personality.

I had way more fun at the intermediate level 😌

I’ve been bad at Japanese AND coding this week. But at least I know it 🥸

next week will be better

Some embroidery works :)

I got super into Manhwa(Korean manga) during pandemic. Most of the stories are about reincarnation and living as a high rank lady. Somethings main character were doing embroidery and it made me try embroidering ;D

I touched grass today! Yay

Bonus points if you can find the incorrect particle usage in my recent Japanese posts! 👀

行きつけのタイ料理屋さんで食べたあと、無料でバナナ一本をいただきました。nice

Instead, we should look to history, path dependency, institutional structures, politics, and economics. For Tokyo, I think urban planning—walkability, mixed use neighborhoods, affordable real estate—all contribute to the richer media and commercial systems that feed into culture.

IMO, when asking why something is the way it is, we shouldn't just fall back on easy answers like "culture" or the "character of the people." Such answers are often just the first go-to when someone doesn't know very much about a subject. Culture variables also don't explain change.

I had to scan my university diploma for some paperwork, and remembered it’s entirely written in Latin… which is cool but also a little inconvenient lol

#langsky

#langsky

★ learning Japanese

☆ between B2 and C1? I passed JLPT N1 a few years ago and stopped studying often

★ I chose Japanese to experiment with self-study methods. I continued for the people and experiences

☆ 11 years

★ talking with people, immersion (daily life/work, books, news, TV)

One of the reasons I’ve loved visiting and living in Japan is that it’s comfortably uncomfortable for me. It challenges me and brings out the best in me, often in ways I never expected.

(I’m sure this is often true for living abroad in general!)

まぁ実際に朝早く起きても、勉強とか用事とか生産性のある行動はしないけどね…

朝食を食べたり、瞑想したり、音楽聴いてボーとしたりする。いろんな意味で静かな時間を楽しめるから好き

寝る時間も起きる時間もめっちゃ不規則だ…健康的な生活リズムを整えるように頑張るわ🥲
#朝活

Learning a language is actually pretty hard. Making progress gave me confidence to try other things I’m interested in too. #langsky

hello #langtwt #langsky !

• speaks: 🇺🇸
• learning: 🇯🇵 (N1 ✅)
• working as a software engineer in Tokyo 🧑‍💻

here for the vibes