To friends whose ears I've bent over the past few months, enthusing about the joy of going back to the classroom to learn Japanese, I often seem to use the phrase: "attacking it from lots of angles". What I mean by that, is that the best approach to learning is one that is varied, using different sources, different contexts, a range of both the routine and the surprising.

I suppose what I'm trying to achieve with this site is to create for myself another angle, another way of structuring or codifying my studies, and an incentive to keep working at it. Who is to say whether there'll be anything of benefit to anyone else.