Learn Japanese

to everyone trying to learn kanji:

do yourself a HUGE favor and start using James Heisig’s “remembering the kanji” book, in conjunction with http://kanji.koohii.com

get those kanji out of the way asap. this is one thing i wish i would have been recommended back when i was starting out.

it’s hard to gauge one’s progress objectively. i’m not improving as much as fast as i’d like, although i’m sure i’m much better than i was 6 months ago. i have three months left. 頑張ります！

today is my first day in okazaki, japan. i’ll be doing pretty much nothing but studying japanese at yamasa institute for the next 9 months. i’m way out of practice, though i did take the JLPT 3 last decemeber and found it sort of easy. my goal is to be JLPT 2 and well on my way to JLPT 1 by the time i leave.