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The four steps to learning kanji
1. Memorize proper stroke order
2. Drill the fundamental radicals
3. Enroll in a two-month shodō class
4. Move to Japan and forget how to write everything except 日本, 東京, and four of the five kanji in your address
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Every time I visit the city office
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力夕力ナ (katakana) seems much easier than 漢字 (kanji) until you realize I wrote three of the four above katakana with kanji and that it’s all just big mess
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The hero that Tokyo needs, but not the one it deserves twitter.com/mr_yabatan/sta…
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If a foreigner speaks Japanese in a forest and no Japanese people are around to hear it, is the foreigner nihongo jōzu?
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Short (incomplete) list of useful Japanese resources
1. The Genki series
2. Minna No Nihongo
3. Oxford’s Take Off in Japanese
4. JapanesePod101
5. Hentai
6. Pimsleur’s Japanese
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Useful Japanese phrase #37
「すみません」
Pronunciation: soo-mee-mah-sen
Meaning: anything you want it to mean
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Hiraganaiseasiertoreadthankanjisowhyisnteverythingjusthiraganaalready
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Most people know changing a word’s kanji changes its meaning. But did you know katakana and hiragana can also change meaning? For example, the katakana word シンプル means ‘simple’ but if you change the final character to a hiragana る it becomes シンプる which means ‘to simp’
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The great thing about kanji is that they are are so intuitive. For the example, dentist is tooth-doctor, Tokyo is east-capital, and the United States is rice-country wait why is it rice country
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Private speaking practice vs. public conversation
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