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life of an american expat living in thailand (and traveling to india often), all documented with a variety of alternative cameras

Speaking Asian

Posted on Saturday April 11th, 2009 at 09:03 in Culture, japan, language, thailand, bangkok, thai language, japanese langauge

Back in the states, I used to tell my Asian friends that they were “speaking asian” when they would do things like forget to pluralize nouns (I ate three apple) or conjugate verbs incorrectly (I’m eaten already). I’ve noticed a similar (albei...
Tokyo

Posted on Friday April 10th, 2009 at 01:46 in Culture, Photography, japan, language, tokyo, japanese langauge

On my way back from the USA, I spent five days in Tokyo, which I think is about as close to another planet as I will get to in this lifetime. I’ve spent time in places like India and Nepal and it’s rather easy to accept that they are totally diff...
Back In School

Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 10:56 in language, thailand, bangkok, spanish language, all, thai language, sanskrit language, lanna language, japanese langauge

So I started school back this week, taking five classes which mostly seem pretty fun … in case you’re interested here’s the workload: JA211: Japanese Conversation TH247: Introduction to Readings (seems to teach critical reading and...