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Nama-sensei is a great teacher.

I still haven't gotten around to reading D. Gray Man yet, I should get on that at some point. And I recommend the Claymore manga over the anime if you haven't read it yet.

And the gif is from the opening of Watashi ga Motenai no wa Dou Kangaete mo Omaera ga Warui! I got it from an article on Sankaku Complex.



Go watch it right now.

Needs more feels:

CLAYMORE IS DA BESSSS

What about you?

That is twisted. I want one.

welp

Not that many letters left to go for the Manga Masterlist, I did L earlier. It'll get done soon. I know I'm 2 months late. Will put them both in spoilers when I'm finished.

Sorry that it's taken a while for me to get back to you. This is going to be long but bear with me.

I won't recommend anything for learning Kana then if you know Hiragana and Katakana, unless you want me to.

It's good you have a diverse choice of materials, but you don't want to build up too big of a barrack that you will overwhelm yourself with. It's good to read around in various books and utilise from different texts, but the key is that utilisation. You need to be able to use them. How you use them depends on whether you're a passive or active learner. If you're passive then simply reading the books and making notes will work for you, but if you're an active learner like me you need to be able to take what you have learned and put it to use in order to retain. I'm guessing you have all of those in .pdf files if you've downloaded them. That's good but I'd recommend investing in some actual physical copies. I know you said you're on a tight budget but I'll recommend some books that are really worth putting the money in for. I'll get onto those later.

So your focus is on kanji and vocabulary. In my opinion, the best way to do this is a lot of reading and a lot of writing. And when I say reading, I mean authentic Japanese written for Japanese people. For me, that's the best way to really understand how the language works. At the same time, you can be utilising your grammar and exercise books. But don't rely solely on those, just use them as an overview because in the end, it's real Japanese you want to be able to understand. Most textbooks for learning the language give you clunky and awkward sentences. But they're often good for language rules and explanations, as well as vocabulary lists if that's you're thing. Just think of them as reference books. That's just me talking about grammar and exercise books though - of course it's different for Kanji books, you'll need those for the characters and their readings, as well as how they are used when paired with other characters.

There's 2 ways I've been learning Kanji.

1. When I was taking my Japanese exams there were set lists of Kanji I had to know. When I first started out during my GCSE Japanese I had to learn all the basic ones from the Genki series which are all of these. Then for my A-Level Japanese I had to know all of these (scroll down to Section F, pages 59 and 60). Since I own the Genki books, and you seem to have the first one downloaded which is great, what worked for me was learning 3-5 Kanji a day from the book (it depended on what lessons I had on certain days) as well as a few words they could become when paired up with other Kanji. I won't go into the process I used unless you're interested but I liked to use flashcards coupled with writing. A lot of people like to use a free online program called Anki which is flashcards online. I used it a few times but I prefer making my own.

I don't use this set list method as much any more since I've finished those exams, but I still use flashcards.

2. What I mainly do now for my Kanji and vocabulary is reading actual Japanese. There's various resources I use. My recommendations of books you should seriously look into buying are the following:

Other useful ways of learning Kanji and new words is reading stuff online. I'm not a big fan of Twitter but I do use it for Japanese. I follow a lot of Japanese people I like such as voice actors/actresses and artists since they post in Japanese. I want to know what they're saying so when I don't recognise a Kanji or word they post I'll look it up and then put it on a flashcard and review it later to see if I remember. The most useful online dictionary for Japanese I think is Denshi Jisho, it's helped me out a lot. You can enter a word in Romaji, Kana or Kanji and it will give you the translation. Or you can type in English and it'll give you the Japanese word(s). You can also go to the 'Kanji' tab at the top and enter a Kanji. When you do that a big picture of the Kanji will appear and give you the stroke order, On and Kun readings, definitions, as well as where they appear in certain dictionaries - including The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary, so both can be used together. There's some other stuff you can do on the site too but you can see for yourself.

I do the same with articles in Japanese. You should have a look for stuff you find interesting to read about.

Everything I've talked about has been regards to reading and writing, but you should also make sure to listen. That's really going to help out with understanding how sentences flow together and how you should read. It doesn't matter at all if you only understand a little or even nothing of what's being said, just listen to the sounds until you can pick apart words so it no longer sounds like white noise. You can watch films, videos, stuff on YouTube, listen to music, anime etc. For me the best thing is podcasts, and there's plenty of those on the iTunes store. Whether or not you have an apple device, download iTunes and go to the store. Then at the bottom change the flag to the Japanaese flag and you'll get all the things being released in Japan. Then at the top just click podcasts.

I don't know if this has been helpful for you or not, if you even survived to the end, but hopefully there will be something in there you can take from it.

p.s. Rosetta Stone is utter garbage shite

Youmu is OP with the sword attack you can use.

That guy.

Going with this non-H Touhou one this week:

Koko?

Probably not. Welcome to FAKKU!

Season 2 PV:



News from ANN:
The official website for the sequel to the anime adaptation of Shinobu Ohtaka's Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic manga began streaming a 30-second preview video for the sequel on Sunday. The video reveals that the title of the new anime is Magi: The Kingdom of Magic. The video also says, “The world... Fate... They are trembling.”

Magi: The Kingdom of Magic will premiere on Japanese television in October, and will air every Sunday at 5:00 p.m.

yep

Yup. Played it for the first time earlier, as Konpaku. She is op.

I mostly play UFO and Subterranean Animism, they're my favourites. I'm still bad at the game but I've been getting better, and trying all the games out has been helpful.

It's annoying when she heals herself.

I have and I love them all. Kind of wish they'd mix things up a bit now though, it's been the same format for some years now, like starting out on the bus, always ending with the haunted building part and them having to save Heipo or Fujiwara in a wheelbarrow and running away from something etc. It's hilarious every time but it's become predictable. The desk drawer opening part can stay though.

Matsumoto is my favourite