'A lot of squinting and counting.' That is how Dries Durnez, a Belgian graduate student at Doshisha University in Kyoto remembers how he used to look up kanji, those intricate Chinese-based characters that make up a sizable chunk of the Japanese... ...full story at Japan Times
from Japan Times on Tue, Feb 26 2008
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#51 Learn a japanese kanji / a song about Ken Tanaka's favorite bean »
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