At 10:00 PM 6/30/97 -0700, Henry J. Cobb wrote:
[...]
>The advantage of sticking little Hiragana on the side of the Kanji is
>that Hiragana are strictly phonetic, so you can look them up in the
>"fifty sounds" table and get a romantic spelling for the word. (The

        These are called "furinaga."

[...]
>I'd suggest getting a subscription to Mangajin or at least picking up
>"Basic Japanese through comics"

        If you're in college, consider taking at least a semester of
Japanese.  Formal education will do wonders, or so I have heard.  Don't do
it my way, which is to say, through anime, manga and the Tokimeki Memorial.
^_^;;

>	Henry J. Cobb	hcobb@slip.net          http://www.io.com/~hcobb

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