Singularity on the Plane

Even though I didn’t update my blog for the past 5 months or so, I still study Japanese and log the diffs. My source to hunt new words and kanji on that time period was numerous. In short, I now try to gobble any reading materials I come across, so writing them all here would be quite painful for me, the reporter. This marks quite a departure from my previous policy of “finish reading one thing before even finding another”. Here are some highlights, though: Wikipedia articles, my cousin’s Routledge grammar book, Yahoo! Dictionary, free Japanese games, free Japanese stories, Yahoo! Japan (a magazine), and Bungei Shunjuu (a very thick magazine). I’ll probably elaborate my reading sources on other posts.

I gathered 288 new kanji and 780 new words. So now my kanji count is 2,117 and my word count is 10,045. Here’s how I would see the Wikipedia page on AKB48 and global warming (unknown kanji in red). I think I need around 3000 kanji before I would stop encountering new kanji every now and then.

Here are the kanji:

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And all the words:

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