Useless Vocabulary?
tokyokevinOne of the important steps in vocabulary learning is to decide if a word is "worth" learning. Will I use it in conversation? Will I need it to understand an…
TBLT Course: The Book
While I am the first to decry the use of the textbook as the syllabus, we are going to stick pretty close to this book so we will be able…
TBLT Course Prep Announcement
Last December, Steven Herder at iTDi asked me to lead (coordinate? teach?) a course as part of the new Great Minds series. I am honored to be considered along with…
Weakly Post #3
Media: Marie Kondo (or in Japanese, Kondo Marie) is famous for her technique of tidyng up. She has a new show on Netflix. I am not sure what to think…
Cormac McCarthy on Language
Cormac McCarthy, author of novels like No Country for Old Men and The Road, is, believe it or not, interested in physics and complex systems. Writing in Nautilus (great publication),…