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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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  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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