I boarded my plane flight to Tokyo without any thought to how I would manage when I got there and couldn’t read anything. Fortunately, that was a trip to visit my Aunt & Uncle who had been living in Japan for about 30 years, and they were able to show me around! My next trip to Asia ...
Many years ago, I read a wonderful book titled “Book of the Hopi” by Frank Waters. Well, I read the first half of the book. The book described how the tribes split apart and traveled the four directions, and then met up at the center of the universe, Third Mesa, Arizona. The tribes ...
Of course there are Westerners who learn Mandarin or Cantonese or Korean or Japanese, but I wondered - can you learn to read Chinese characters without learning Chinese? I read somewhere that Mandarin and Cantonese, while having entirely different vocabularies, use the same written characters. ...
Accidental selfie taken at Coleccion de Titeres de Francisco Peralta in Segovia, Spain.
