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Mar 30, 2022Liked by Mathias Barra

It seems like you've really connected with the written form of Thai more than you have with the rest of the language, which makes sense to me as I've met so many students of Japanese over the years, some of whom seem to really love speaking and listening to the language and others who obsess over kanji. Of course there are thousands of people who sit somewhere in the middle, but I'm curious if this holds true for lots of people over lots of languages - finding that their connection to a language is mainly through one "quadrant" like the script, or songs, or a style of poetry, or...

As for what you could do content-wise that I would like to see -- I don't have anything concrete to add as I just enjoy sitting in the sidecar while you drive. That said, I'm always curious to see other people's handwritten study methods. (I know you use Anki, but you've got to have a notebook, too, right?) As an example, when I was studying kanji, I had a sketchbook where I would graffiti a single kanji or word just as a way of working through the stroke order. I'd use colors and designs to create something I could remember more easily. Alternately, I'd just write a kanji normally but then fill in the space around it with connections, synonyms, antonyms, etc. Meanwhile, one of my good friends filled sketchpad after sketchpad with stickfigure illustrations of phrases, jokes, and expressions. So, if you've got something like that, I'd be curious to see it.

And, of course, I think writing more about the yojijukugo sounds fascinating.

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