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  Wednesday and Thursday Japanese homework

  11.11.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I’ve been keeping up with my Gradint podcast, even without having the bus journey each day, by playing Grand Theft Auto III while listening.  I usually do Ambulance missions, trying to get the mythical Level 12 (you rescue groups of patients, 1 at level 1, then 2 at level 2, and so on, up to [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I am doing

  06.03.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I am doing These are my ongoing Japanese learning actions.? Nice short section so everything all at once… Kanji I use Anki daily – more specifically, I use the iPhone app on my iPod touch. It’s really handy, especially as my daily commute has specific “dead” times – waiting for the bus, travelling on [...]

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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 [...]

Musings of a Creative Slacker

"Creative Slacker" referrs to the fact that I should be doing creative stuff – writing, art, 3D animation, RPG stuff, but I don't. Maybe "lazy bastard" would be more appropriate.

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