Language

Brooklyn Monk in Asia - Don't be misled by the name; superb blog cram-packed with cultural, linguistics, and language learning insights as well as some bits of economics. Adventuresome!

How To Learn Any Language (Forum) - Best English-language forum on the net for foreign language enthusiast and polyglots. 8000+ members, 115000+ posts.

All Japanese All The Time - Japanese to fluency through self-directed immersion. Awesome.

Passing JLPT Level 2

Shanghaiist - Keeping on top of what's going on in Shanghai.

Khatzumoto is a genius, and I'm inspired. 10,000 sentences to near-native Japanese?

American Women, a hilarious rant. Is it just me -- or did somebody not get up to native-level cultural and language knowledge, and thereby was left unable to read reality, and started conveniently projecting their fantasies?

Japanese audio with transcriptions, I've been looking for this misplaced link for a month! Most valuable link on the internet to me at the moment.

Check the size of your Japanese vocabulary, 語彙数推定テスト (up to native levels).

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It's like prosecuting people for stealing water from the water fountain. Real cunts.

Review of an Automatic Language Growth program which teaches Thai. Fascinating; something I'd love to try just to be able to contrast language acquisition simulating childhood and more common adult learning methods.