TL;DR: I used MTurk and PostgreSQL to create vocab flash cards for Chinese restaurant menus, ranked from most common to least common terms. It’s an embarrassing scenario: you’re dining with friends at a Chinese restaurant when the server drops off the menus, including the non-English “secret menu”. All eyes turn to you, as the only […]

There’s a large and thriving community of English speakers learning Japanese, in which they swap tips and trivia amongst themselves as they seek to improve their Japanese skills. The corollary is that there’s a large and thriving community of Japanese speakers swapping tips and trivia about English, and I’ve found a bunch on Twitter. So, […]