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    Thread: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese
Post: **Your** Guide to Learning Japanese

What about Japanese The Manga Way? I've heard it's supposed to be useful (on Amazon at least, the reviews are almost universally favourable).
AppleCider General discussion 53 6,970 2015-08-11, 1:24 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

You guys... I leave you alone for one day and immediately you start fighting! Whatever shall I do with you? ;) I tend to keep my philosophy about language as simple as possible: the moment enough peo...
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-11, 12:43 pm
    Thread: Half way!
Post: Half way!

After getting to ~400 last summer, I stopped when school hit (kept reviewing, though - for 9 months), and now I've just reached the 1/2 mark going at 20 kanji/day. When school starts again this time,...
AppleCider Remembering the Kanji 616 180,466 2015-08-09, 3:51 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

How splendid! I'll make sure I don't skip any! xD
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-09, 1:41 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

Fonts can be tricky little things. Anyway, I've dug a bit deeper and apparently no, the ideographic description sequence does not imply the order in which the character should be rendered. Therefore...
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-09, 1:15 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

Illuminaty confirmed! EDIT: Uhh... wut? With my font, the first is normal, but the second has two drops instead of one. http://jisho.org/search/%E8%BE%B5 Can you see it here?
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-09, 12:35 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

The Chinese must really like their noodles. If I've figured this out correctly, the stroke order is as follows: 穴 月 幺言幺 長馬長 刂 心 ⻌ Wikipedia also provided an ''ideographic description sequence'' ⿺辶⿳...
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-09, 12:28 pm
    Thread: What on Earth is this thing?
Post: What on Earth is this thing?

I've seen some pretty wild kanji, but this one is just ridiculous. [Image: https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/image...mwA-2KbZMw] ???????? Even good ol' "gloom" can't hope to be as weird. I can't f...
AppleCider The Japanese language 25 2,947 2015-08-09, 11:44 am
    Thread: Unsure about my progress...
Post: Unsure about my progress...

I guess you're right, I'm just being a bit paranoid. Learning the kanji is still quite the daunting task, even with RTK for help. I'll keep on going, and if I do happen to run into any problems eventu...
AppleCider Remembering the Kanji 2 1,179 2014-10-27, 2:40 pm
    Thread: Unsure about my progress...
Post: Unsure about my progress...

Hi, everybody! I'm new here, so, uh... yeah. I've been using Rev. the Kanji for a while now alongisde RTK 1 and Anki. I'm currently at around frame 300, and while I've had no problems so far, somethi...
AppleCider Remembering the Kanji 2 1,179 2014-10-27, 8:53 am