Project: AlphaKanji

I'm interested in learning Japanese. I've been engaged in that for years - on and off. One of the reasons it has taken so long is that there hasn't been a reliable and simple way to look kanji up in a dictionary.

So I developed my own system.

417m 資 assets

634c 之 of/building block

H33f 弐 II (two)

o63g 呉 give

373g 吾 I

463j 娯 recreation

See Jack Halpern (who devised SKIP (and here, and here) for identifying kanji) and explore this website jimbreen (at) gmail dot com
Some other systems are mentioned here.

As for Chinese
Jim Breem told me about the four corner method, which has similarities
Useful Japanese kanji site
Wiktionary frequency list

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Project: Globish Hadashi no Tabi

So I have a book that I wrote, a travelogue about a trip that Mami and I made in Japan in 2005. I then had the idea of converting it into a graded reader whose reading level increases as you go through it. I call it Globish Hadashi no Tabi.

There are 100 chapters. The sentence length, vocabulary, grammar and chapter length increases progressively. By the time that the ESL reader gets to the end, he or she will have improved their English.

Current state of the project: I'm recording the chapters as mp3 files. Mami will put together an electronic version for Kindle.

Project: Dr Gabor Mate

Biopsychosociological perspective

At the 39 minute mark of this talk Gabor gives the things people need for positive health.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SR6Q0RSc9gY from 18:35 is a great starting point - the child rearing habits of hunter-gatherer tribes. 3 things they do that we don't.

Start by taking notes of https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJALrqJRtfU

"Very few children are allowed the luxury of both being in a relationship and being authentic."

"Learning is an attachment dynamic." (28:53)

Great explanation at the 52 minute mark about the dichotomy between positive and negative attachments. Also the need to be a nice person can result in cancer.

Gabor reading his mother's diary at 24 minutes
Children form an attachment to electronic machines at 40 minutes

3 minutes into this talk Gabor denigrates about so-called 'evidence-based practice' which ignores much of the evidence as inconvenient, and being left-brain driven just as for language learning (my …

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