My Website Tips and Services
I created HelpMeBuildaSite.com to help small and medium sized enterprises create attractive, professional websites on a tight budget. Having worked in a number of start-up companies, I know how difficult it can be to make ends meet, and developing a website likely takes a backseat to making payroll and keeping your accounts payable under control. However, to be a legitimate business today, a web...
Read MoreMy Language Learning Blog
Foreign Language Mastery is a blog, podcast, and perhaps one day a book (I need to finish my other book first) created by John Fotheringham (c’est moi), and dedicated to helping adult language learners master foreign languages as quickly, cheaply and painlessly as possible. Learning a language well does indeed require an investment of your precious time, energy and money, but if you go about it...
Read MoreMy Japanese Learning Guide
Give yourself Master Japanese: Self-Guided Immersion for the Passionate Language Learner, and learn on your own time, reach your own goals, and use tools you’ve chosen. Master Japanese is not a textbook that will “teach” you Japanese: no book, course, or teacher can ever get a language into your head (this is not The Matrix). Only you can acquire Japanese by getting enough...
Read MoreMy Taipei Living Guide
Living, Learning and Teaching in Taipei (or LLTT for short) was created to help: Anyone thinking of moving to Taipei for work, study or play. Young or old; experienced professional or green graduate, rich or poor; black, white or teal. Those who have lived here for a short time but are frustrated by too many unanswered questions and too little quality information about living, learning and...
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About Me
I am passionate about foreign languages and cultures, education, website development, and wireless technologies. I have spent most of the past decade living, learning and working in East Asia, with experience in a number of fields, including government, corporate training, telecom, website development, and voice acting. I speak, read, and write Japanese and Mandarin Chinese, and have begun learning a number of additional languages. I hold a B.A. in Linguistics from Western Washington University, including certification in T.E.S.O.L., and I am a member of the Linguistic Society of America.