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- Introducing ‘Kiso Valley Diary’ – A Blog About Life in Japan March 4, 2020
- Life in Japan #3: 13 Reasons Why You Should Learn Kanji July 29, 2019
- Life in Japan #2: Thoughts on Studying Kanji, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Needlessly Complicated Japanese Logographic Writing System July 22, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #10: Vampyr (Part Ten – Vampire Rats) July 21, 2019
- Life in Japan #1: Spending Time With the In-laws July 13, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #9: Vampyr (Part Nine – Whoso Eateth My Flesh) July 9, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #8: Vampyr (Part Eight – Funeral Bites) June 30, 2019
- Is the Indie Game Development Scene ‘Stagnant’? (and other questions whose answer is ‘No’) June 7, 2019
- RPG Autopsy #7: Vampyr (Part Seven – Redmail in Redchapel) May 26, 2019
- One Thousand And One Nights: A Patreon Reward Game May 23, 2019
Category Archives: Learning Japanese
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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Thoughts on Studying Kanji, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Needlessly Complicated Japanese Logographic Writing System [Part 1]
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 watch, and all the people you could no doubt impress by needlessly saying ‘karaoke’ with the original Japanese pronunciation. Maybe you … Continue reading
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