As of yesterday, I finished my Hiragana! That meant it only took me a week to learn the entire Hiragana "alphabet," and I'm really proud of myself. Textfugu said that most people don't make it that far, and this is a milestone for me, for sure.

Although I have all of my hiragana/dakuten down, I'm obviously an incredibly slow reader still. I make mistakes here and there where I'll think a certain kana is actually a different kana, but this will obviously improve with time.

I'm seriously considering purchasing Textfugu... it's been an invaluable asset thus far. I'll have to scroll through Nihongo Shark to see if it's up to par with Textfugu (it isn't) before making the jump... I can't really swing it financially right now. Maybe when I get my taxes next year or summat... but that's so long.

Though my studies aren't over today, I input two different lists into Anki, one being My Passion List, so I can learn the Kanji (so hard!!) for things pertaining to music. I remember a few... but it's only been one day. I also started some grammatical work with Textfugu, learning です, which is the incredibly useful "it is." I learned that for beginners, it's better to think of the Japanese language in Yoda terms, as in saying 即です。Milestone, bitches. I worked with different nouns for practice, and I'm now trying some listening practice with Battle Royal. I'm hearing quite a bit of ですか。Perhaps it's a more authoritative "it is?" Or a question?! I will know soon enough.