So I have nearly completed my work for the first year of graduate school. It was intense, immersive, and fascinating. It has been without a doubt one of the most positive experiences of my life, which is such a nice change after the last two years. I will put all that into a different post though as I want to talk about recent research before I ( Read more... )

Music is another language.  As with all foreign languages, study of them improves the skills of the students' mother language.  This happens even if the new language breaks the rules of the first language or is very dissimilar.  Music is very different than English.  Yet if a student studies the patterns, rules, etc. to become fluent in another ( Read more... )

(This does NOT refer to my students. I have never had a student that was so unwilling to try ( Read more... )

Just say no to Babel Fish.

バベルの魚を使う時、日本語が分かりにくい、ね!

romanjiがきらいです！　じゃあ、東京バベロンとるろうに剣心の本を買いましたから、とてもうれしいです。　　そうして、子猫買いました。　Red Tabbyです。　木曜日子猫と帰ります。

( The student and the stranger )

I don't know which is more pathetic...my obsession with the doujinshi or the fact that I got so excited about recognizing the sentence structure we are currently learning in class. 飲ませて ...hehe, I'll let your imagination put that in context.

あたまがいたあい！　　ばかな病院のビール。　お金がないので、払わないよ！　　バカ　バカ　バカ　　悪い夢がSUXXORS!　　寝られない。　しまった！

昨日は私の誕生日でした。 　私は二十七さいです。 　そうして、弟とお母さんに会いました。
楽しかったですね！そうして、あの男の人は私に電話をかけました。
名前はアンドルーです。それから、うれしいんですね！　^_^ 　でも,あたまがいたいので今寝ます。 おやすみなさい！

エヂット: 　日本語は　Live Journal で読みにくいから、パラグラフがちょっと変です。