Currently I’m designing a series of survey and interview studies which will eventually be used to collect data for my dissertation and eventually my PhD proposal. In short, my research is concerned with the attitudes people have towards the language they learned in school, how useful it has been to them, and how much of it they can actually ( Read more... )

Does anyone on here have any experience with Perl?

I've been trying for days to set up the script described on http://psych.fullerton.edu/mbirnbaum/programs/PERL_script2.htm , but with no luck ... =(

Long time no see, livejournal.

I still read most of peoples posts on here, but recently things have been too hectic to have time for updates.
Recently we moved to a new appartment though, and other than that I'm just busy with my MA!

Here's a couple of recent pictures of my kids (who're getting bigger everyday by the way):


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Ok, a bit of a bizarre request.

I need to download one British TV advert for a lesson, but it's not on YouTube, so I have to pay a week’s subscription to a website which deals in videos of TV adverts. I’ll cancel my subscription after a week, but I’d might as well knock myself out and download as much as I can for future lessons.

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Shopping = fail. No milk. No bread. No rice (although we have enough left for a few weeks) and importantly - no baby nappies!

This'll be us in about a week:

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Sorry if you don't understand Japanese, but I'm sure you can get the gist ~

No trains meant no work today. Although that does also mean I probably won’t be paid, it did let me sit in Mac Donald for four hours and catch up on my university reading ( Read more... )

Yuuli's lobster died (I doubt it's earthquake-related, but timings a funny thing), so Mayo bought him a basil plant to replace it. Right now he's in the front room saying goodnight to it . . .

Thanks to all the people who emailed me - we're safe and sound.

Guess writing on LJ about earthquakes was kind of asking for it. Actually Tokyo wasn't that close to the epicentre - a whopping 8.8 - but it was still close enough that had to wonder if the ceiling would come down (it didn't - but a lot of windows need new glass ( Read more... )

I’m sure that just like here in Japan, the main news topic everywhere right not is the recent earthquake in New Zealand ( Read more... )

All babies go though universal stages of babbling - even deaf babies. It appears to be a preprogrammed, innate action.