Forever a student

About a month ago I did a 121.5 hour (5+ days) water-only fast and it was such an intense, insane, comprehensive and unique experience, that...

I was working with the Airport police yesterday with an asylum seeker from Afghanistan. I spoke Farsi, she spoke Dari. I had heard Dari befo...

An interesting thing happened to me yesterday. For the first time since I started learning Mandarin - and that would include 3 years of dema...

The following is my short analysis of the famous Lion-Eating Poet in the Stone Den (施氏食獅史) poem.  About the poem: "Lion-Eating Poet in ...

Polyglot Conference Berlin 2015 A student writing his paper on "Learning a language as quickly and efficiently as possible" sent m...

I spent more than 5 years of my life living in Taiwan and among the many curious things that I've seen were daily scenes of the local po...

A friend of mine, a western native speaker of Mandarin Chinese, who grew up in Taiwan, recently embarked on the journey of learning how to r...

My random thoughts on language learning  Mastery/no blind spots Inspired by Salman Khan, while learning a particular concept, try to learn i...

About two months ago I discovered the wonderful Lex Fridman podcast. It has kept me company most of my days since then and has made me pause...

Tim Urban's Tweet A while ago, one of my favorite bloggers, Tim Urban , tweeted a tweet in which he expressed sadness about the fact tha...