ダニーの日本語

I think my brain might melt.
I’ve had a good run recently, and learned a lot of new Kanji, but after a pretty lazy weekend my number of Anki reps has increased manyfold, and I’ve started to struggle to take them in.  A couple of days after learning them, they come up again and I find [...]

Hooray!  Today I completed part 2 of Heisig’s Remembering the Kanji 1, hitting 508 Kanji.  That seemed like a reasonable enough landmark to note here, so here it is.
I’ve really slowed in the past few weeks, when it comes to learning new Kanji.  When I first started, forty Kanji per day was easy, because there [...]

If you look to the right, at the top of the sidebar, you should see a new widget that is both exciting and attractive – a tracker to monitor my progress through Heisig’s two Kanji books, RTK1 and RTK3.  The strange numbering owes itself to the second book containing the same kanji as the first, [...]

As explained in my previous post, the method I am following to learn Japanese requires that you learn at least 2,042 Kanji before you even start to learn any actual Japanese.  I’m working at a rate of 40 Kanji per day at present, at which rate I should have finished RTK1 by the end of [...]

I’m not much one for resolutions. Giving up chocolate, or drinking, or playing karaoke games for a year seems to me to serve little purpose. If I ever did find myself doing any of those things to excess I wouldn’t want to wait until January 1st to do something about it.  So I [...]