向学心 (kougakushin) means ‘passion for learning’. My parents instilled in me a passion for learning at an early age. Currently I’m a PhD student in the UK, and in my spare time I like to study Japanese. Learning has become a habit for me, and I gravitate towards topics that I enjoy. At present the most rewarding topic is definitely Japanese; interwoven culture and language that I can study endlessly. I don’t sit down with textbooks to study it though; I’m mostly watching TV and reading simple books. More on how that works later (you don’t need language classes, or many textbooks!)

The gap which this site intends to fill is that of bringing together language learning resources and particularly language learning _literature_. Lots of research has been conducted on memory for example, and we borrow from this from time to time. However what’s missing is a principled approach where claims are backed up with evidence in the form of citations to real-world researc

To that end I’m going to need to develop the site to allow for proper referencing, and hopefully later more fun features like flashcard learning. If any of this sounds interesting then please consider subscribing to the RSS feed. A better way to keep up might be to follow me on Twitter. I’m looking forward to your comments!