[Audio] [Q&A] How Do I Get Back on the Japanese Language Horse After a Hiatus? (Patreon)

Jess hits us with a question:

"You know what, my language journey has kinda stalled. Not just because of COVID-19 but just sputtered out since leaving Japan. It’s sad because I was doing well enough to work in an all Japanese environment but since moving back to the UK, Japanese has taken a back seat in my life and I’m not sure how to welcome it back." 

The gist of me answer:

* An ocean wave is not the water but the energy carried in that water.

* Japanese is not a thing, or a place. It's a way of life, a way of being. It is Japanese energy; Japanese lifestyle. Definitely, not point (0D), not even a line (1D), not even a plane (2D), not a solid (3D), maybe not even a tesseract (4D). Whatever it is, it is multidimensional, its existence spread out across space, time and mind(set). As are all languages. Your is not to grasp the language — it’s too big and slippery for that — but to live it, love it, ride it, surf it, become it.

* Your Japanese plant is drying out.

* Regret will not water it.

* Only more water -- immersion, SRS — will.