Still Remembering the Kanji

Blimey, studying japanese when not enrolled for a course, and outside Japan, is really hard. Let my SuperMemo rehearsals slip for 3 months. Work, life, study. All the usual excuses.

But good news.

This fall there will be a japanese course for advanced students in the school where I took my first course. It is quite hard to round up enough students to actually get the green light. So if there is any dane living in or near Copenhagen reading this, who also wants to brush up on japanese, do check out this homepage for details: japansk.homepage.dk.

Now Im back to studying again on my own. I am mostly running with the Japanesepod101.com series. It is a bit slow in the upstart, and not intense like a real course, but I find I am both being drilled on my kanji reading abilities as well as my listening skills. I subscribed for a year to their premium feed. It is free but if you cough up you can download the podcasts as well as pdf's with notes and other stuff.

I will use this to prime myself for the course starting in august.

Another good thing happened: Supermemo 2006 has been released. Still an awful ugly piece of software, however unicode is now supported better. This means no more long lists of "???????" in the overview because it chokes on kanji.