More pictures of my katana

Just in case ;) I still need to take a nice res picture of the midde of the sword.

Good resolutions for the new year

This year has started on an educative note:

I have started learning Japanese again. This time is faster and easier as I have a realistic target ahead and a few very interesting untranslated books to keep me motivated. If I don't get bogged down by something, I should be able to attempt the JLPT 3 test in December.

To help reach this objective, I have made some preparations on many fronts.

Printed flash cards:

• hiragana
• katakana
• the 2042 most usual kanji
• the 900-ish family name kanji

Computer flash cards:

• the JLPT4 vocabulary and expressions list
• hiragana
• katakana
• the JLPT4 kanji

Books:

• Heisig "Remembering the kanji" (1, 2 & 3)
• Kodansha "Furigana dictionary" 
• Nagoya University "A course in modern Japanese"
• Kodansha "Japanese for Busy People"
• Gakken "Japanese for today"
• Lampkin "Japanese verbs and essential grammar"
• Barrons "Japanese grammar"
• "みんあの日本語"

Software:

• iStudy flashcard
• JEdict
• Rikaichan on firefox

I am still in the process of creating the JLPT 3 level flash cards.