<img src="http://clarchive.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/archive-small.jpg?w=150&h=200" alt=""the polaroid project" by s2art" title=""the polaroid project" by s2art" width="150" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-274" />Astute readers may...

How do you learn a language? The same way you learned to walk… one step at a time. There are no magic shoes (no matter what the shoe shop assistant may tell you). There is no substitute for being brave enough to take a step, achieving a little, soon...

<img src="http://clarchive.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/3217235009_e96cf79d5a_b-mini.jpg?w=200&h=134" alt=""Foreign Secretary David Miliband in Manchester" by Foreign & Commonwealth Office" title=""Foreign Secretary David Miliband in Manchester" by...

<img src="http://clarchive.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/xmas_hkitty.jpg?w=133&h=200" alt=""Christmas kitty" by Tavallai" title=""Christmas kitty" by Tavallai" width="133" height="200" class="alignright size-full wp-image-263" />The supermarket shelves...

Recently Koichi over at Tofugu listed his top ten online tools for studying Japanese. His list includes some great old favourites, and some fab new sites I had never encountered. There are detailed explanations for why each site is on Koichi’s top ten...