Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

Right now, I’m focusing on learning how to read Telugu. Previously, I was trying to learn from podcasts and TV, but I read this article by polyglot (Olly Richards), where he recommended reading, rather than TV/media as the primary language learning strategy. I already know the basics of the Telugu alphabet and know most of…

When I learned/was learning Spanish and French, I spent a considerable amount of time learning about the cultures of the places that spoke Spanish and French. For me, that meant learning about the history of French and Spanish colonialism, the histories of Latin America, French West Africa, and Quebec, Louisiana and Haiti. I also spent…

A few months ago, I bought a domain name called TeluguNotes.com. The vision behind this purchase was that I wanted to create high-quality resources for learning the Telugu language, geared towards heritage language learners. That is, people who might have a passive understanding of Telugu, or may be conversational in it, and want to improve…