Get well soon!

Nice job! I struggle with novels sometimes.

Do you have a bookmeter account? I use it to get new book recommendations

The zoomies! Yes, exactly 😆

That attitude of curiosity and excitement helps a lot when we’re just starting out 😌 And celebrating early progress is important too!

Yeah, I feel that! I felt very motivated at the intermediate level, partly due to the reasons you mentioned.

Ah, I’ve done the same thing before 😂

Good idea using singing to learn. There are so many good songs 🥹

#langsky the best part of being a beginner (to me) - getting comfortable making lots of mistakes, and not knowing much!

Nice job! 🎅🎅🎅

That’s surprising! Now I know 😆

Hmm… “White Christmas” is fairly slow. If you want a challenge, maybe “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”!

訂正してくれてありがとうございます！

そうですね！不思議だから嬉しかった😆

ていうか料理を作るクエストっていう設定なら、この材料でどんな料理が作れそうか全然想像できないな…

レアアイテムを集めるRPGのクエストみたいだ。次はどんなものに遭遇するでしょうか。

件のバナナと、この前もらったdried fishの写真です。

はちみつの隣で置いとこう。(自分で買ったやつ)

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.