Benny's Klingon-language house tour

Here.  Well done that man.

Japanese texts on The Internet Archive

A search for Japanese-language texts on The Internet Archive was productive: in particular I like the look of this and this, which are volumes 3 and 4 of a Japanese reading course by Arthur Rose-Innes from before the war.  If I ever get advanced enough to read pre-war texts, with their bigger range of as-yet-unsimplified kanji and different use of kana, I might start here.  There's lots of other stuff that looks like it might be interesting too... too many books, too little time.  A lot of the metadata is less good than it could be, but I don't knock anything cool that someone gives me for free.

Japanese is now a cool language to learn but within living memory the Western nations saw it as very obscure—from the preface to my vade-mecum, Teach Yourself Japanese (1958) by Dunn and Yanada, [...] yet outside of Japan and her former Empire, and those parts of North and South America where many Japanese have settled her language is known by only a few hundred people at the most. This can't literally be true—none of the pre-war Japanese tutorial stuff on the Internet Archive and Googe Books would have been published at all if the market were that small!—but it's certainly true that when the Pacific war started, Britain and the US had some trouble finding people with knowledge of the language, other than Japanese and Japanese-Americans.

Klingon language mission

I don't have one, but Benny The Irish Polyglot does.  You'll see lots of blogs being added to the sidebar over the next few weeks, most but not all language-related.

Benny travels the world learning languages and translating; I don't try to follow his method of learning languages but I enjoy reading about how he gets on, and you probably will too.