Once more, since I still see people writing and saying "30 typhoons this year" 台風＝tropical storm 強い台風＝typhoon Only some of the 30 台風 this year became typhoons; the rest all remained at tropical storm level, several of them just barely making the minimum 18 m/s sustained wind speeds.

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This morning's Japanese lesson was fun. I made a bunch of mistakes. The questions were (intentionally) confusing and it was nice to try and unpack them. I'm feeling good about the new things I've learnt. But there are basic things I still get wrong. And might always get wrong. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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As it happens, that perfect G-A-B-C walkup is also one of the two guitar riffs I've shared with John Roderick.

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Once I've tuned any acoustic guitar, I strum an open G chord, and then pick the first four notes of this song. For over 30 years.

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The line between "classical" and more popular music is not always so clear. Puccini operas can sound like a Broadway musical at times; and in the Andante from his Piano Concerto No. 21 (made famous in the film Elvira Madigan), Mozart goes full Richard Clayderman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVKp...

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