A few weeks ago I went to Chicago for the ALA annual convention. While there, I got the opportunity to use several of my foreign languages. I spoke Spanish, German and Russian all while there. I enjoyed it so much, and I wish I could make a regular thing of speaking my languages. That's what I miss by living in a rural area instead of in a city ( Read more... )

I thought I would make a quick post while it was still April in my time zone, though not for much longer.

This month I did a 30 day writing challenge via the cool (and free) website 750words.com. I managed to write every day, and almost all of it was something I used for my fiction story that I have new enthusiasm for writing. There were a few ( Read more... )

Exactly 11 months ago, I started learning Japanese. I wanted to write about my journey so far since it has been one of my big projects of 2011, and I took the Japanese Language Proficiency Test on Sunday, December 4th ( Read more... )

I've started learning Japanese. I only started last week and just because my library is testing a language database to see if we want to buy this product for our patrons. (I'm all for it if we have the money. This is an awesome database ( Read more... )