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I’ve occasionally considered doing JET myself, but have never gotten around to committing…
Welcome! Have you made any plans to actually visit at any point? =)
Hinative is probably your best bet. It’s phone/tablet based, mind.
So, it took me about a week to get hiragana properly memorised when I first started studying, and another week for katakana. I rather feel that a season a day is… excessively fast. Especially considering there’s only eight seasons, so you’d be done with all TextFugu in a week.
Keep in mind that the limiting factor here is not how fast you can read the chapters, but rather how well you can retain the information so that you can actually recall it later. If you try to move on too fast, you’ll knock everything you’ve just learnt out of your head before you can commit it to long-term storage.
I was just coming here to sniff indignantly that I’m perfectly capable of multi-tasking, until I noticed two days of unanswered threads. Whoops.
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Getting to Japan by bridge seems like a long trip. Might I suggest flying? =P
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Yeah, WaniKani replaces the kanji section of TextFugu, if you want to study the two together. EtoEto is intended to replace both, when it’s finished. I confess I haven’t checked it lately, but I’m not sure there’s a great deal of beginner stuff there at the moment.
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Japan does have quite an impressive range of knives. I’d like to visit Sakai myself too, though for a completely different reason. Just visited Japan last month, but wasn’t able to make the time to visit Osaka at all.
Honestly, I don’t think anyone who really knows anything about Japanese culture does love all of it. Some bits are a title… you know.
Welcome! Where have you visited in Japan?
I just got back from my second trip there literally four hours ago. =)
Welcome! If you’re particularly interested in Osaka, it might also be worth learning how the Kansai dialect differs from standard Japanese. =)
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Studying’s been… not as great as it ought to be. I really gotta get back into learning kanji and vocab. I’ve been working on a translation of a drama series for practice (and for the fun of it) and I realised recently that it’s been a whole year since I last finished an episode…
Actually, I’m going to Japan for two weeks starting Saturday week. =D
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I’m in my early thirties, and far from the oldest person here, so being in your late twenties is hardly a hindrance. =)
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You’re aware the note names are all different in Japanese, yes? They’re named in katakana, using the old Iroha order – it’s a slightly archaic version of “alphabetical” order in Japanese, which takes its name from the start of a poem which uses each hiragana character exactly once, except for ん, which didn’t exist back then. (Well, actually, it uses each man’yogana character exactly once, but since man’yogana is the precursor to hiragana…)
So instead of A, B, C, the musical notes are イ, ロ, ハ, ニ, ホ, ヘ, ト
