ydtt wrote:

(EDIT: And by this I don't mean any arbitrary sentence in hiragana, I mean an actual text in all hiragana from something made by Japanese people for Japanese people.)

Meaning children's material? or that hiragana needs context?  I'm not sure the source makes a difference: it's the same issue whether it's material for children, all-hiragana texts for learners or even audio.

Aijin wrote:

As your oral comprehension increases you'll recognize the words when written purely through phonetics.

Did you mean that it'll be easer to read hiragana b/c the phonetic-meaning association will be stronger? Or that we read kanji purely through phonetics?
If the latter, and ydtt declared that "right"....well, I might have to go and find Nest0r.  ;-)

@JimmyS - will you give us the answer?

hereticalrants wrote:

ta12121 wrote:

だれ>誰 (apparently this kanji isn't common, but it's used pretty commonly, i've heard it so many times)

How do you hear a kanji?
How is something both uncommon and used commonly?
Where can I get Japanese books for around the same price I pay for English books (about 10¢ each)?

bought them off of this site, http://www.sasugabooks.com/index.php
it was a sale, so books ranged from 2$-20$

ta12121 wrote:

hereticalrants wrote:

ta12121 wrote:

だれ>誰 (apparently this kanji isn't common, but it's used pretty commonly, i've heard it so many times)

How do you hear a kanji?
How is something both uncommon and used commonly?
Where can I get Japanese books for around the same price I pay for English books (about 10¢ each)?

I've actually seen that very kanji in RTK-3 but it's used commonly in anime,drama's,etc. But maybe b/c it's a rough word to say.

It's a very common kanji, it's being added to the Jouyou this year.

Well, I need to learn to write more clearly on my first post.