My Brain is Completely Empty

sorry (that what happens when you copy and paste without paying attention)

the song I'd actually like to request is 银河公园, if you still haven't translated it :)

Haha no worries, I'm definitely happy to take a look! It's one I'd listened to already but hadn't really paid attention to the lyrics, but it definitely looks interesting.

It was less than a month ago that I finished volume 2, but thanks to listening to the audiobook, I have now finished volume 3 as well! That’s right, what took 6 months of reading originally only required 1 month of listening. So what did I think? Not Very Good This is my summary of the book. I just think it was a massive decline in comparison to before as the vast majority of it was just boring…

This is a classic mistake that language learners can make. When you learn a language it’s absolutely essential to explore advice to find the best methods available, but you can definitely take it a step too far and continue researching for far longer than necessary.  When I had already understood immersion and knew what I needed to do, I was still subscribed to lots of language YouTube channels…

If the idea of a disgraced esports pro forced into retirement slowly recovering his former glory in a video game about adventure, swords, guns, dungeons and action appeals to you, shoud you give this anime a try? The answer is no. I thought this show was pretty bad, and the only reason I was able to finish it was because I had also read the book, which was so much more interesting. Just for…

I’ve got an announcement to make. The four posts per week schedule that I have maintained for almost a year is now over. I regret to say that after releasing 219 posts over a 13 month period, I have finally come to the realisation that making so-called ‘blog posts’ for pretty much just me and a handful of random people is just a deeply inappropriate reaction to the current political situation. I…

I am so excited for this anime after having just seen the trailer that I had to talk about it immediately! This is easily the book that I’ve enjoyed the most this year, so I was completely overjoyed to hear that it was getting a Donghua as it’s absolutely deserved. I’ve previously talked about this series many times here, here, here and here as “Dao of the Bizarre Immortal” however the new name…

Heatwaves are very brutal if you don’t have air conditioning and live in a house designed to protect heat from escaping such as those in the UK, however I was able to make my house pretty bearable through following these steps. I hope this can help people the next time we go through a heatwave, and if you are lucky enough to have air conditioning, I hope it helps you appreciate…

The world cup is over now, and my country, England, got knocked out in the semi-finals, so I thought I’d give an Englishman’s perspective on the world cup in general and talk about what went wrong for us specifically. I think everyone is fully aware of the many problems surrounding this tournament, however I feel it’s important to emphasise that many of the same problems that affected fans, such…

I gave this series a good shot, and found it quite interesting to write, but I think it’s best to end it, and I thought I’d explain why in case anyone has been following along. I was trying to replicate what I had done with playing through all of Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate Solo. 4U was a game that I loved as a 16 year old, but its high difficulty really destroyed me and made me give up before I…

I didn’t immediately rush back to report on what I learned in China simply because it’s really difficult to notice any progress over such a short amount of time. I was only there for three weeks, and didn’t really use any of the measures I used previously to monitor progress. It was pretty much just conversation, which is great, but you are much more focused on communication than trying to learn…

I think the title summarises my thoughts pretty well. It’s pretty impossible to make a definitive statement such as “I can listen to Mandarin Audiobooks” because how much you understand obviously depends on which book you’re listening to and your familiarity. If you are already familiar with the characters, what the story is like, and the author’s writing style, it’s so much easier to understand…

Some genres of TV show are just much harder to understand than others, and for me, as I learn mandarin Chinese, a genre that has always eluded me was the imperial palace drama. These stories follow the events that happen surrounding the emperor and their concubines as well as the historical events that took place at the time. This genre in particular is so hard because there is a lot of cultural…

Immediately my first actual fight with the insect glaive was completely terrible. Zorah Magdaros was such a bad matchup for this! I couldn’t get all three nectars from the magma cores, so they went down incredibly slowly, and the layout of the monster was so confusing to me that when Nergigante appeared, I spent 10 minutes walking around looking for it, only to see it get repelled without me…

I genuinely feel like I’ve gone through enough content to cover 5 books, but no, I’ve only just managed to finish reading the second King’s Avatar book, and there are still 17 more to go! Volume Cover The first thing I want to comment on was the decision to include Su MuCheng on the front cover (of the Chinese edition, which is the one I’m reading) since I wouldn’t have considered her as nearly…

While on holiday I managed to finish the first book of Dao of The Bizarre Immortal, which covers the first 175 chapters of the online webnovel. To be honest, I didn’t think I would be able to read this much, and I only set myself a target to do the first 100 chapters in a year, but I’ve just kept on going, reading at an extremely fast pace because it was just too good! In contrast to the 75…

The most common thing I have heard from those who have given up learning a language was that they simply couldn’t remember any of the words that they tried to learn. But when I try to explain that you’re really not supposed to remember any words, it’s always met with shock and confusion, so I’m going to try to explain what I mean now. The majority of words that I’ve learned from being a beginner…