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apparently an open email to koichi

06:29 Thursday 23 July 2015 JST

Thanks Koichi!

I think I'm in the honeymoon of conscious incompetence.

I've been doing Anki each day as your book suggests, at 5am as [your book](https://www.textfugu.com/lessons/) suggests, and I've got between 70 and 100 cards queued up each day. My latest progress is visible at https://www.robnugen.com (if you don't see any Japanese entries in the top page, it may mean progress has stopped progressing!)

At this point, I've cracked into the cards starting with 真っ

1. 真っ赤　まっか 　pure red
2. 真っ暗　まっくら　pitch dark
3. 真っ黒　まっくろ　pitch black

and those are okay, but these

1. 苦い　にがい　bitter
2. 若い　わかい　young
3. 迷惑　めいわく annoying the kanji for bitter and young are annoying!
4. 面倒　めんどう troublesome
5. 無知　むち　ignorant
6. 無駄　むだ　wasteful
7. 無料　むり　impossible

are makin' me crazy!

How do you like squarespace? How'd you make your TextFugu stickers? I want to do a similar thing with my mazes https://www.amazeaweek.net/ but blah blah blah

• Rob!

ps: who the hell ever thought two kanji for one word would be a good idea? Can you imagine if they used three kanji in one word? Jeez!! (shhhh don't tell him)

日本語を勉強しました

05:44 Thursday 23 July 2015 JST

There are probably errors in the Japanese notes below!

I didn't finish Anki yesterday, but fortunately it looks like it tops out at 100 entries per day.

昨日アンキの勉強を４分しか終わらなかったので、今日たくさんカード（１００前）がある。

1. 懐かしい　？？？　なつかしい　nostalgic 2
2. 頑固 ??? がんこ　stubborn 2
3. 徳島県　とくしまけん 3
4. 厳しい　きびしい　strict 3
5. tough, strict, difficult ??? きつい 2
6. difficult 難しい　むずかしい 3
7. painful, difficult ??? 苦しい　くるしい 2
8. 迷惑 ？？？　めいわく　　annoying 2
9. important, serious matter 大事　だいじ　３