If 100 kanji characters is making me go "whaaa...aaa...?" how am I going to learn the thousands that make up the Japanese language? It wouldn't be half so hard if it was just a matter of one symbol meaning one word and having one sound. Instead it is one symbol can have one to three different sounds and also mean a word which have yet another sound.
So I don't know whether I sound memorize the symbols by the English meanings first or try to do English meaning, Japanese sound and symbol. Then go back and pick up the words the symbols can stand for. Oh and then memorize how to write each character. Then again, if I keep cashiering I will have all the time in the world to not only devise the best way to go about memorizing these but also have the time to accomplish the task.
While I am writing out definitions and fouling up the copying of complex characters, I've continued to watch The Wire. I am now on season 2 and have come to understand the love for the show but only partially. The characters are good, but not truly awesome yet. I am waiting for it to become epic. Luckily, I have plenty of people's words that it will be.
I also decided to give in and watch Torchwood's Children of Earth miniseries before the beginning on the new series. I have been holding off for what must be nearly two years now because I knew who died and couldn't get over it. In fact I am watching the episode in which they die right now, just waiting for it to go down and get angry. Bur it is also true that the miniseries is pretty solid in every other matter thus far.
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