Computational linguistics is cool as hell. It may be the link between my inherent computer nerd self and a desire to learn languages. It is, at very least, more interesting than politics (or, rather, it has captured my attention away from politics, which is frustrating as hell right now). Let’s say I’ve [...]
I still correspond with a few people that I met in Changchun and Baishan, and to be fair to them I’ve started writing (as much as I can) in Chinese. They’re writing in English to accommodate me, so I thought it would be nice to return the favor.
Needless to say this has helped my [...]
In the last few days I’ve been reading quite a bit about linguistics (and the nature of Asian languages, specifically). My interest is to the point that I think I might like to pursue it academically, though I’m not sure if I’ll ever actually do something like that simply because I have no idea [...]