Comments on: Structured procrastination http://dyepot-teapot.com/2007/06/18/structured-procrastination/ don't drink from the wrong one Thu, 17 Nov 2011 16:33:41 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: selena http://dyepot-teapot.com/2007/06/18/structured-procrastination/#comment-415 Wed, 20 Jun 2007 16:45:54 +0000 http://dyepot-teapot.com/2007/06/18/structured-procrastination/#comment-415 (sorry if this is a double post)

props for finding a productive hobby. i keep meaning to go back to my russian books, but never seem to find the time.

you know, you’re always welcome to join gab & i for arcane discussions. particularly about ruby, if you’re willing to suffer a newbie’s questions about what the hell it is that you’re doing. and then put up with hearing about all the silly things she and I do with perl.

we miss you at our user group meetings! we’re still having those postgresql meetings (1 year anniversary in August!).

]]> By: baudattitude http://dyepot-teapot.com/2007/06/18/structured-procrastination/#comment-410 Mon, 18 Jun 2007 19:59:17 +0000 http://dyepot-teapot.com/2007/06/18/structured-procrastination/#comment-410 Hiragana is easy to pick up if you have at least one children’s book or manga lying around – when I taught myself kana ages and ages ago, I just took 5 characters a day (a i u e o, for each consonant), practiced them a few times, then read through a volume of manga picking out all the ones I’d learned that day and all the ones I’d learned the days before.

For katakana, it’s trickier because you won’t have nearly the opportunities to practice, but magazine advertisements tend to use lots of katakana so I recommend using them to do the same thing.

Once you have them all down, it opens up the language to you to an amazing extent. Good luck!

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