Nearly five months in Japan and I’ve just about managed to get my head around the the simple Hiragana and Katakana alphabets. Learning the Kanji seems quite daunting at this point. There are 80 of them in the first grade alone.
It’s quite frustrating to go about your everyday life being effectively illiterate.
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