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The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Kanji and Kana
05.31.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

First post in my “State of the Education Address”, where I talk about where I am in my Japanese studies, and what the future might hold.
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Kana progress!
08.21.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

Well, as of this morning, I can write out the entire Kana chart from memory! This was done using Windows Journal on a Toshiba Tecra tablet PC, so it’s slightly rougher than even my usual scrawl, and I’ve sneakily not saved the grid pattern that made everything all neat and organised. We will call it [...]
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The appalling state of my Kana handwriting
08.19.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

My kana (Hiragana and Katakana) handwriting as of Wednesday 19th 2009. I have managed to swap ら and り (third column from the left, top two characters), and I’ve only written the Katakana (bottom group) that I know so far. These are charts of all the kana (well, minus the ones I don’t know), in [...]
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Literacy
08.08.09 | Permalink | Comments Off

? ? I have been teaching myself hiragana, one of the three Japanese scripts. I’m using Mnemosyne, a flash-card program that schedules cards cleverly so that the cards you remember well get scheduled less and less. I don’t remember learning to read English – as far as I am concerned, it’s as natural as breathing [...]

The State of the Education Address: What I Have Done – Kanji and Kana