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March 10, 2008
Word of the day
一人っ子
（ひとりっこ）
only child
The article below discusses China’s one-child-per-family policy, or 一人っ子政策（ひとりっこ せいさく）
中国、一人っ子政策を「今後１０年は維持」と
北京（ＣＮＮ） １０日付の中国英字紙チャイナ・デーリーは、人口抑制のための「一人っ子政策」を今後少なくとも１０年は続けるとする張維慶・国歌人工計画出産委員会主任の発言を伝えた。 (continue reading…)
March 09, 2008
Foreign language vocabulary acquisition
I generally keep the content at EdwardTrimnell.com distinct from the content here at Japanese123.com. On this site I write almost exclusively about Japan and the Japanese language, while EdwardTrimnell.com is a hodgepodge of politics, social commentary, book reviews, and personal bloggery. (I usually don’t editorialize too much here; but on EdwardTrimnell.com I feel free to burden the world with my personal opinions about every topic under the sun.)
Today I am going to make an exception to the usual division between Japanese123.com content and EdwardTrimnell.com content. I made the following video to respond to a question sent by an EdwardTrimnell.com visitor: “How to you acquire a vocabulary in a foreign language?” I think that the video may be of interest to users of this site as well.
