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    1000 Kanji Strong w00t!

    Tonight I broke the 1000 kanji mark in my Remember the Kanji Challenge using RTK. 1000 kanji isn’t technically the halfway point or any particular chapter break or anything. In fact the halfway point is 1,021 kanji.

    So why the 1k w00t post? Ah! well as I’ve said in the past– Japanese, for me, [...]

    Yet another RTK Update

    I’ve broke yet another ceiling… 801. It’s absolutely downright amazing at this new found kanji-wielding power.

    Click for full size Bit by bit– the strange becomes the usual, the unfamiliar becoming ritual, and Kanji slowly becoming a new appendage to that which I will call ‘common knowledge’. But really, it’s more then all that… It’s literally the act of self-taught literacy.

    Think about it.. For years you attend classes at institution you respect and love. You take Japanese courses only because there’s not a better excuse not too. You learn, you struggle, you fight the kanji and in the end– you walk away with a second language. But it’s not really yours.. Let me explain– Click ‘more’ to um… read more. (It’s interesting trust me!)

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    The Challenge of RTK finally sets in.

    I’ve just finished tonight’s new additional kanji to my ‘little red book’- a book I started March 22, 2009 to keep track in written form all the stories I make up (or borrow) for the kanjis in RTK. Currently I’m at 751 and scoot’n… [...]