Author Archives: Nick Keirle

Introducing ‘Kiso Valley Diary’ – A Blog About Life in Japan

Hi there! It’s been a long time since I’ve posted anything here. sorry about that – life kind of got in the way. I’m intending to get back to game dev sometime in the next few months, but in the … Continue reading

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Life in Japan #3: 13 Reasons Why You Should Learn Kanji

According to lots of people far smarter than me, Japanese is either one of the hardest, or the hardest language for English speakers to learn. But why? It’s very different from English, obviously, but so are lots of other languages. And Japanese … Continue reading

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Life in Japan #2: Thoughts on Studying Kanji, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Needlessly Complicated Japanese Logographic Writing System

(This is an edited repost of a post I wrote in the dark depths of 2015.) So you want to learn Japanese. It’s a common story. Just think of all the manga you could read, all the anime you could … Continue reading

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