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Current Activities
1. Practicing hiragana on squared paper - it looks like I am writing one long, drawn out "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA ..." Somehow, it seems particularly appropriate tonight. I'm more used to hiragana than katakana - I really need to practice the latter a lot more.
2. Watching Batman Begins on ITV1 (the one I call "The Home Of All That Is Tawdry And Vulgar In Britain"). The only time I've watched ITV all week. Previously, they had a Poirot episode, which I also watched - because there really wasn't anything else on.
3. Poring through a Japanese dictionary, looking at the words in hiragana and katakana. I really need to absorb the kana and kanji, as much as the (purely verbal) rōmaji. So I've found the ideal resource; an Oxford starter dictionary for students which gives no rōmaji translations - just pure kana and kanji.
I know that this level of learning is waay beneath me - it feels as if I've been put back 40 years to the class where I first learned cursive handwriting with a biro - but this is still probably the best way for me to learn this language.
2. Watching Batman Begins on ITV1 (the one I call "The Home Of All That Is Tawdry And Vulgar In Britain"). The only time I've watched ITV all week. Previously, they had a Poirot episode, which I also watched - because there really wasn't anything else on.
3. Poring through a Japanese dictionary, looking at the words in hiragana and katakana. I really need to absorb the kana and kanji, as much as the (purely verbal) rōmaji. So I've found the ideal resource; an Oxford starter dictionary for students which gives no rōmaji translations - just pure kana and kanji.
I know that this level of learning is waay beneath me - it feels as if I've been put back 40 years to the class where I first learned cursive handwriting with a biro - but this is still probably the best way for me to learn this language.