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A few posts ago I mentioned that I had a new project to target my deficient Japanese listening comprehension skills. I stated that I was going to watch one of my favorite movies one scene at a time, over and over again, in dubbed Japanese. I ended the post with the first line […]

Today one of my students asked how to pronounce 1906. Was it “nineteen six” or “nineteen oh six”? He recognized the pattern that in English we tend to read four-digit years as a pair of 2-digit numbers. “Nineteen six” didn’t sit right with him though. This is probably because when he learned […]

Spanish has been a back and forth battle for me for years. A better analogy would be a series of small border conflicts, as most of the time nothing is going on, but when I do decide to learn Spanish, I charge into it and I’m soon pushed back away, and nothing more happens for […]

I cracked open my Pali book today when I had some free time at work and I have to say I’m quite excited! I am now one of the privileged few in Japan who can call themselves Pali students. I may be the only person in my entire prefecture to be studying this […]

I’ve been studying Japanese off and on for about 8 years. If you break it down chronologically, I had:

2 years in a Texas university
1 year in a Japanese university
1 more semester in a Texas university
3 or 4 years of not studying Japanese at all
1 year living in Japan, surrounded by Japanese but only studying […]

Εν αρχη (en archae) means “in the beginning.”
After 7 months without studying at all, I’ve finally sat down and spent some time a couple nights ago to study New Testament Greek (also called Koine Greek). I’m primarily following the lessons in a book called “Learn New Testament Greek” by John H. Dobson. I started […]

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My name is Peter and I like to study new languages, though I didn’t know that I enjoyed new languages until after I left high school. I took 3 years of German in school, which I enjoyed at first. I […]

Hello. My name is Thomas and I’m one of the contributing authors here at babelhut.com. I wasn’t always a language junkie. My first foray into the world of foreign language acquisition started when I took a semester of Spanish in Jr. High School many many moons ago. At that tender age, […]

Howdy! My name is Thomas and I am happy to announce the launch of babelhut.com!
My co-author Peter and I have have discussed starting a language blog for a while now. We are both studying foreign tongues and we wanted a place where we could post about our progress and connect with other people […]