Birmingham’s not so bad, but Warwick/Leamington…yawn!

@kanjiman8 Thanks! I figure being a master of kanji after 4 years of Japanese should give me a bit of an edge for Mandarin, it’d be killer to know both for business. Though hopefully I’ll land a good job in localisation first and Mandarin will just be a hobby. :)

I’ve been picking up some new kanji lately from doing Core and I’m starting to notice if you just learn the readings instead of doing RTK you might be better off. I can associate the readings with the image of the kanji quite well with these newer ones, I can’t write them by memory but that’s not really important in any way right now. I think I’d much rather have just drilled kanji and picked up readings than doing the RTK method. Should have started Core back in December.

If you learn by readings you don’t even have to know what the meaning is, though I admit it does help for some compounds as sometimes the kanji used in combination make sense.

Japan were great in the 2010 World Cup, they seem like a team on the up and up. I can’t remember his first name but some guy called Honda took a couple of great free kicks.

That ~2000 number is single kanji only, to read newspapers and such you will have to know many kanji combinations, most common combos are words with 2-3 kanji or kanji + kana. (and sometimes 2 kanji + kana)

I was hoping for England to win so I could see Germany rip them apart again. I’m part German so I choose to support them. They’re very entertaining!

Depends on your nationality, visa schemes differ. I know a guy from the UK who is on some sort of work holiday visa that he has been able to extend multiple times I believe.

I know from experience not all teaching jobs require you to have a degree. Most of them will require you to be in Japan already though, so applying online from another country is largely pointless as they won’t sponsor you. (and obviously it’s not possible for them to sponsor you without a degree)

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I agree iKnow is a little slow and the reviews come heavy and fast (though this depends how many new words you tackle each time) but I don’t know what the complaints are about the loading times, it takes around 1-2 seconds to load a “deck” for me.

I think iKnow is pretty great, you can definitely go the free route by using the decks with Anki though, but I do prefer using the iKnow apps and I don’t have to mess about getting Anki to play nice with media syncing across 4 devices.

Edit: I’ve not had any issues with the mobile apps (Android and iOS) either but I have no doubts that they could have been a pain to begin with, some apps just start off bad.

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