I came across this strange "article" on scribd.com while searching for anything related to kanji.

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6480851/How-to...ding-Kanji

Basically, the author explains how to fool people who can't read Japanese into thinking that your ability at Japanese is higher.

Is this a joke? I remember doing this kind of thing when I was maybe 4 or 5 to fool the other 4 or 5 year-olds into thinking I could speak Russian or do calculus. Has anyone ever done something like this?

Hopefully that is a joke, it looks a bit rubbish to me!

Also, it's not often you see something in full furigana anyway, and then what happens if someone wants you to read something else?!

Well, fake it 'til you make it, I suppose.

Wow, that's a lot of work to go through to 'fake it'... Especially if you've looked it all up in a dictionary to know what it all means and everything, too. And can speed-read kana.

Anyhow, seems to me that method would work just as well with text that was all kana, since non-speakers can't tell the difference anyhow.

Also, I guess I'm too good at too many things to want praise for something I'm faking, anyhow. I'd much rather praise for something I'm actually good at.

My favorite part is when he talks about using the method "back in the day when I only knew about 20 kanji, but now I know 300"

Solid- good find.

Why learn stuff when you can fake it? Nobody will ever know...