Neurophilic

Hi Gabe,

love the book. Do you think that the languages most dissimilar to written English (Chinese languages, Arabic, Japanese, etc) would benefit from a fundamentally different approach to learning? I find the written language barrier in these is pretty difficult to overcome.

-K

what do you think of learning a language without bothering with the writing at all (especially with Chinese in mind)? Do you think one could just stick with IPA and effectively learn to speak/hear Chinese?

since you're learning to speak Japanese - is your progress in learning written Japanese about the same as your progress in spoken Japanese? or do you find they're disparately different?