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I’ve learned to write 2000 kanji, now I need to pick up more readings, practical grammar, etc. I have several bookswith similar formats, “Reading Real Japanese” (short stories and essays), “Breaking Into Japanese Literature”, etc. I want to read something in one of these every day, if I can manage….
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1. learn Japanese
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2. quit smoking
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3. learn to program my iPhone
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4. visit Australia
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5. visit Singapore again
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6. write a book on "Open Source Best Practices"
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7. sell my photographs
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8. read more Japanese
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9. Visit Shikoku
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10. Visit China
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11. Build a timber-frame house
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12. direct a horror movie
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13. get my office cleaned up
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14. own a katana
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15. create my own font
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16. Contribute to an open source software project
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17. Live on a sailboat
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18. get my DVDs catalogued
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Recent entries
I’m using James Heisig’s book “Remembering the Kanji”, which uses a really good mnemonic approach to learn them. As of this morning, I’m up to 249 of ‘em, over ten percent of the way there!
I’m using the web site “Reviewing the Kanji”, at http://kanji.koohii.com/, to help with this. The combination is very effective! I hope to be done by next summer.
