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Bootstrapping A Dictionary
Learning to read Japanese is really really ridiculously hard. So hard that you have to use a dictionary in order to use a dictionary.
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Penned Name
I try my hand at calligraphy and find it far too unsteady to write even my own name!
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The Return Of The Pedal Bike
My bike miraculously makes its way back to me courtesy of some over-zealous police work.
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Proficiency, Or Lack Thereof
In which I sit the Japanese National Language Proficiency Test Level 3, and make weak football related puns.
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Fire Flowers
With my reading comprehension the way it is, there’s no wonder I didn’t realise that Hanabi literally meant Fireworks.
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The Name Game
Try explaining how to spell your name to someone where there aren’t just 26 options for each character, but 20,000.
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100 Kanji
A minor but satisfying milestone on the way to Japanese illiteracy.
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Beef And Life
The Kanji (ideogram) for Draft beer is the same as the Kanji for growth, birth or life. Steve, you were right; Beer is life!
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What’s In A Name?
I was given a cool, if slightly feminine Kanji name today. Now I just need to remember how to write it!
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Howdy!
Technology and travel stories from a global roaming, kangaroo loving, sake drinking gaijin pom.
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