I'm filtering my book collection. But there are select books that I'm keeping just because I found them just too valuable, even though I don't need them anymore. I'd suggest them to any student of Japanese.

Japanese Beyond Words: How To Walk and Talk Like a Native Speaker ( Read more... )

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/JapaneseRead more... )

For some reason, I felt like I should try to pick up (some) Spanish again. I cracked open my beginner's textbook and looked through the pages, trying to understand the words, grammar, and sound them out ( Read more... )

Origins of the SpeciousA book I'm reading on the kibble... and the first I bought on it. Figures. Anyway, it's one of those books that talk about what is correct and not, and suggestions as to what to do about it (because some of what is stressed as correct is not). And of course, a lot of anecdotes and word history ( Read more... )

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ManapuaRead more... )

More linguistics crap. Different accents of English, I found in a link. They have links of samples of monologue... and frickin' crap I can't even understand half of it ( Read more... )

( For those of you playing at home, this is probably the English version of my paper. Okay, not really. )