Lived there for a decade! Here’s some tips for Phoenix newbies, or those considering the jump so they know how to acclimate:

As someone who’s studied Japanese at a university for nearly four years, and has taken about 5 different app- or program-based Japanese courses as refreshers, I feel like I need to make it clear that when Duolingo launches these East Asian language courses, they are FIRMLY in what feels like an early beta stage.…

I play exclusively on PS4—they did an extraordinary job making sure you can do everything a PC player can, and smoothly at that. Every now and again I’ve had to look up a tiny bit of UI know-how to get my controller to do something (like how to remove things from your hotbar), but not that often. In fact, most the…