This is what I am doing right now to acquire various languages. i) Japanese What I am doing - Almost every day I listen to a JapanesePod101.com podcast on my way to or from work. When I arrive at work I write a Kanji on the whiteboard with a...

There is a quite beautiful ad showing on Dutch television at the moment for the Senseo coffee machine featuring two actors who speak to each other in a type of sign language. I am not sure if they are both deaf, I have read that the man is. Evidently...

Yesterday we celebrated Sinterklaas in traditional Dutch fashion. Sint and his Black Pete helpers delivered their presents, the children sang Sint songs and I realized something important about what is happening to our family. Where three cultures...

I had a friend when I was younger who went to college in Dublin. We would meet whenever we were both back home during breaks in our university schedules. I am sure that the affectations I was bringing back from northern England were equally as foreign...

I hate November. I just thought today about how apt the No is in the name of the month. My body refuses to do what I want it to do. My mind even more so. I am a fragile soul at this time of year. I don't push myself lest I break. I struggle to Italian...