They have an iphone app too. Thanks (too bad my network coverage is almost zero at work, need to switch).

I stand corrected. Cute indeed!

I think the image tags were listed on the forum how to page. Let’s see…

That’s [ img ] and [ / img] (without the spaces).

I’ve been going by さよなら meaning ‘long term goodbye/farewell’ too (and have seen it used that way), but recently found conflicting opinions from Japanese natives, who say it’s actually just more formal. Perhaps this would be best in the ‘I found some Japanese I don’t understand thread’, but I was wondering if using a formal term with people you would normally speak informally with, is what gives it the conotation of ‘farewell’? While using it in formal circumstances just means goodbye?

When it comes to changing one’s own perspectives, outside advise may work perfectly, or be no use at all. It’s a highly personal and complex matter. You want to stop taking it so seriously, but what do you think it is that drives you to take it so seriously even in spite of that?

This might not be directly relevant, but there may be other ways around your problem. I did a similar thing when teaching myself A-level pure mathematics. I answerd every single question in the book (many thousands that would normally be skimmed through in an actual class). Getting a question wrong was frustrating, but I satisfied myself by working out exactly what went wrong whenever that happened. My god that was a lot of work, but I enjoyed it.

Hmm, cute sushi would be… one of those artistically rolled 巻きずし I think. Personally, I like いなりずし a lot (being a fox XD) but those are definitetly not cute.

Anyway, welcome.

Edit: looked up the proper term, 飾り巻きずし or just 飾りずし。

• This reply was modified 11 years, 7 months ago by  Astralfox.

I was joking about the Engrish.

Kanji is a fundamental part of the Japanese writing system. Trying to read something written in only hiragana is a good way to give yourself a headache. The answer to your original question is; yes, kanji is usually used in Japan.

Yo, and welcome.

If you put a decent advert written in Japanese on Japan Guide you will be overwhelmed with messages. However I wouldn’t reccomend it for beginner students, because the messages can get rather long and complex, and it doesn’t exactly conform to text-book grammer. Perhps you could try writing an advert in English…

Strangely enough, 90% of the replies I recieved were from girls aged 20-23. Whether or not there is a gender bias in those learning English, or if it’s for some other reason, I do not know.

That used to happen on my iphone. The way I fixed it was to click the right-most button and pretend the card didn’t exist. The problem went away completely when I stopped using the radicals deck, and started memorising radicals from kanji on-the-fly.

XD