I just learned the English vowels in the Japanese Hirangana alphabet. I wrote down each character for three lines on notebook paper, repeatedly, sounding out the character in Japanese pronunciation.

This sounds really gay.

Total time taken was about an hour. I can now identify the characters within the context of the back of my Banjo-Tooie box. I think Katakana is for title-ish stuff, and Hirangana is for dialogue? I don't know. But I truly hope that I can stick with this and achieve my goal of not only learning a second language, but learning Japanese.

Really wish this didn't sound so gay. Fuck it.

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When doing the flashcard exercise, I can understand what each word means much faster than remembering the Japanese pronunciation... fix this! Hope to start "k" tomorrow.