Kaisen

"There is even a word in Japanese, kaisen, for these tiny steps towards growing new habits..." (Poulson, 2008)

Fun foreign words – Sehnsucht and Duende

Just the words, ma'am? Then skip the first two paragraphs. I have a glancing familiarity with some languages (French, Danish, Portuguese; minimal smatterings of others). One of the delights is learning words that have no direct translation (and then dropping them casually into conversations, in a puerile attempt at intellectual chest-beating. But I haven't done... Continue Reading →

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