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My internet has been spotty the last couple days due to weather. That's why there hasn't been any posts. Also, I plan to post biweekly from now on (meaning twice each week). That doesn't mean I won't post more often sometimes, but as a rule I will post about every three days. This is so I have more time to put toward my writing, and working on my property which is essentially falling apart. More importantly, it will give me time to make quality posts. I don't want to just have posts that say literally "this is how you write letter A".  The advantage of being a small blogger is that I can change the schedule and methods with which I do things and it won't have as negative of an effect. And let's be honest, this is the time to improve. While I've just started is the perfect time to adjust as needed to find that perfect balance between my private life and the internet.

If you do use The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time  as a form of immersion into Japanese, you might occasionally  pretty much constantly find new letters or words you are unfamiliar with. In a European language, you can simply search the word as it appears on the screen. But what about Japanese words? How do you find the specific kanji you don't know? You can't just search the word, because you'd have to know it's pronunciation already in order to do that. It's not like they all come with furigana  after all. Despite these difficulties, there is a way, but first I should inform anyone interested in learning new letters to look into 'how to search a Japanese dictionary' with radicals (the components of kanji that stem from other basic kanji). Nonetheless, I have found a link to the entire in-game transcript here:  zeldalegends.net I've linked the transcript on my Resources page, along with other useful links for those looking to learn str...

I will be renaming the non-Zelda posts to reflect their content, because they are more-or-less just lists of katakana terms seen in games. Not meant to cause any inconvenience. I think the new way I'm gonna present information will be more convenient and consistent with "for beginners" that doesn't seem like just "anything I come across that I'm able to figure out myself" lol. Thanks for being patient