I am having the hardest time finding it again, which leads me to think it was maybe posted on her blog and not on Slate, but here are the main points:

My bad then - you start off saying “why would you...” So I assumed you were directing it at me.

Yeah, I’d like to pick it up someday, but it’s on a long list after Spanish and Korean. Mostly because I want to eat at Jiro’s restaurant someday.

Oh yeah, having the vast amounts of time to swim leisurely in the ocean of language also helps with immersion. I don’t know where that ridiculous metaphor came from (inside of me) haha.

I heartily, heartily agree that immersion is only helpful if there is already some sort of framework

I think immersion would work better if you are immersed in the country - hence, why exchanges and etc. work so well. But in a short hour or less class, if half of it is spent with students staring blankly at you + as a TA, you have a list of things you have to get them to do or risk bad eval./repercussions, it’s…

I’m not Japanese.

They want brand new, seal unbroken baby formula from the U.S. Ever since that scare that Chinese formula has melamine or something like that, the families that can afford it get U.S. baby formula.

I feel like in all these photos the contoured lips lose so much texture and “personality” for lack of a better word. The finished product looks so plastic-y (especially the last one) and loses so much of what makes lips alluring in the first place.

Aww, I’m blushing!!

I took one week of Japanese in college (I was on the waitlist for another class that I really wanted and got in). The first class + TA session both instructors spoke solely in Japanese and I spent the classes being like “I’m sorry, I’m not cooperating because I literally don’t understand a single word of what you’re…

I’m imagining this mystical elevation line where the caribou walk through it and some werewolf-esque thing happens as they TURN INTO A MOOSE

Does anyone else find Chipotle guac has a weird bitter taste? I can't place what it is

I'm going to need the name of that voodoo priestess

How awesome would it be if they also released a smell that was banana-scented

I feel like there’s probably one woman he works with that leaves an extra 15 min early once a week to pick up kids or something and he just HATES IT, BRO

I love a lot of his bits too (especially the abortion poster bit). I get the feeling from him that he actually wouldn’t be too bad to hang out with IRL (especially now, that he’s mellowed somewhat) and that in real life he’s not half as racist/misogynist/homophobic as he makes himself out to be. He has weirdly…

Doug Stanhope, right?

Hopefully your take on it is true, because I’m pretty cynical. There were a lot of ads “back in the day” that were also ran on the idea of “be more you!” and now looking back we see how sketch they were.

I am one of those curmudgeons that hates it when people share all those “omg so touching/empowering/THIS” ads. They’re still ads, guys. They aren't doing this out of the goodness of their heart - they are manipulating your emotions in a very calculated and focus-grouped way in order to influence you to buy something…