August 2010
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Richard Feynman on learning Japanese
While in Kyoto I tried to learn Japanese with a vengeance. I worked much harder at it, and got to a point where I could go around in taxis and do things. I took lessons from a Japanese man every day for an hour.
One day he was teaching me the word for “see.” ”All right, he said. “You want to say, ‘May I see your garden?’ What do you say?”
I made up a...