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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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  Japanese homework.

  11.08.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  I have been taking Japanese classes through the Learning Works programme at Glasgow Uni.  This week, the homework was to construct two diary-like sentences, to practice using verbs.   They should be done in rōmaji and Hiragana. Given that I’m actually off this week, I’m going to see if I can do this every day [...]

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  The State of the Education Address: What I Could Be Doing – Kanji and Kana

  06.04.11 | Permalink | Comments Off

  What I Could Be Doing A braver person would label this section “What I will do”, but I’m not, so there! So basically this will be a place for me to put down some thoughts about what I could, should, and maybe will be doing in the future. Kanji and Kana Continue with the RTK [...]

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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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  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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