Welcome back to another edition of my linguistic study progress! As I showed in my previous post, I'm using a Notion template to keep track of my studies. Feel free to check it out here! This month, I updated the template to now include all labels written in Japanese. This is a minor change but…

When I first decided I wanted to learn French, I spent a really long time Googling the "best" textbook for beginners, the "best" app, and basically any method for learning the language that was generally considered effective. Through hours of scouring the internet, I found a ple…

Speeko is a language learning app with a lot of really interesting features that could possible make it a worthy competitor for popular language learning apps like Duolingo and Memrise if they were to buckle down and fix their app. Unfortunately, despite all it has to offer, Speeko has some technic…

The details of my trip to France continue! The second part of my trip revolved largely around meeting up with my online friends. I met a majority of them almost 2 years on a Japanese language learning Discord server. We all connected because we all had an interest in learning Japanese at the time,…

I've come back from my adventures abroad bringing lots of photographs & memories to share with you!


A few months ago I decided to book a trip to Paris to meet Amanda, my best friend, who has graced this blog many times. We haven't seen each other since I left Japan 2 years ago, she'…