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The first time I can remember hearing of  The Chronicles of Narnia  by C.S. Lewis was sometime in my childhood, and I remember two specific details about my introduction to the series of books. For the first detail, I remember being in the backyard of Cordelia's house. Cordelia was our friend and neighbor-down-the-street, and her mother often used to buy us McDonald's Happy Meals whenever we hung out, if I recall correctly. Although we were young, Cordelia had learned some of the Greek alphabet, and that was the first time I heard the letters  Alpha ,  Beta , and  Gamma  as being associated with anything other than the Alpha Beta grocery store that existed in our neighborhood in those days. What we were doing, besides talking and using our imaginations - as children do - I do not remember. But I believe I remember noticing the cover to  Voyage of the Dawn Treader  and being captivated by the cover - it looked like some sort of dragon ship. I pro...

About four months ago, I wrote my initial post about what I am doing to learn Japanese, and I think it is now time for an update. By the way, if any of you have ever been interested in learning a foreign language , why not use whatever extra time you have now? :) It doesn't have to be too much time; just try a little time to get yourself started. Even if you don't have the opportunity to meet with someone in person for language exchange, why not watch a video online to learn a foreign script? You can learn how to write and speak the basics of Hebrew, Arabic, Tagalog, Korean, Spanish, Italian, and more online! Many of the scripts and could be learned in a week or two (or a month for some; learning the written language of Japanese takes a bit longer), and you should be able to learn basic greetings such as hello, goodbye, thank you, and so on within just a few minutes, and then build from there! Okay, well, the first thing I want to note about my language learning is that the...