kateordie:

caelumrising:

oldmanyellsatcloud:

tenderwear:

Found this reddit post. This kinda makes me feel better. And it’s something I think about sometimes because I always feel like regardless of how hard I work on something I don’t get anywhere.

Nice summary. If you’re curious, the anon here is referring to studies over the last decade that have pointed to major impacts on pattern separation with depression, and how depression can have major impacts on nonsynaptic plasticity. 

Psychology is amazing folks and more of it needs to be common knowledge

Good for my own information…

Learn Kanji with Radicals and Mnemonics: The Definitive Guide

tofugu:

Kanji is said to be the most difficult part of learning Japanese. The most common reasons for this are “there are a lot of them,” or “they are complicated,” or even “they are hard.”

But if you know how to learn kanji, it doesn’t need to be so hard. You don’t need to spend 10+ years studying kanji to reach a decent level of Japanese literacy. One or two years will do, if you’ve got the right technique.

Around five years ago, Tofugu made the kanji-learning application WaniKani to fix the “learning kanji” problem. Since then, we’ve seen students learn all 2,000+ jouyou kanji (not to mention 6,000+ vocabulary words) in just over a year.

In this article, we’re going to give you the recipe to our secret sauce so you can do the same, no WaniKani necessary.

Even if you think you’re “bad at kanji,” you’ll see a five to tenfold increase in your kanji learning speed the moment you get to the bottom of this page. A pretty good reward for fifteen minutes of reading time, don’t you think?

Now, you may be wondering: “Why would you give away WaniKani’s secret sauce? Won’t that decrease your WaniKani customers?” The answer is “we have no idea.” But here’s why we’re giving it all away:

  1. Not everyone can afford to pay for WaniKani (around $7-9/month). We want to give these people another option. If someone wants education, they should be able to get it.
  2. If you create a free WaniKani account, you can use WaniKani levels 1–3 for free (that’s 100+ kanji, and 300+ vocabulary words). By that time, you’ve learned everything in this guide and more. People don’t stick with WaniKani because we keep the method a secret. They stick with it because it’s hard to quit (some say “addicting”), it’s simple (sit down, follow the instructions, and you will make progress), it has a huge community of like-minded Japanese learners (though sometimes they’re a bit weird), and it’s an all-in-one solution (SRS, ordering, and more).
  3. We want more people to know about this method. It’s existed in various forms for nearly 50 years, but very few people are using it. Tofugu has a unique opportunity to spread the word and help out teachers, students, and everyone in between. We want to move the Japanese language industry forward, because it’s been stagnant for a long time.

That being said, what do you get from this guide?

If you’re a student, you’ll discover the secret to learning 2,000+ kanji in one to two years. If you are extremely motivated and have a lot of free time, maybe even less than that.

If you’re a teacher, you’ll learn how to teach kanji in your class using this method. We’ll provide reference materials for you to use, so you can build a kanji/vocabulary teaching method tailored to your teaching needs.

Ready to get started? There’s a lot to cover, and we’re sure you’re excited to see some results.

Learn Kanji with Radicals and Mnemonics: The Definitive Guide

OK to make a font out of your own writing

steakss:

trveroman:

frickmyrickmas:

cannibaltomato:

weavingmemories:

januarycomicsmonth:

zeekist:

saucybroswithbenefits:

jupiters-headlock:

nakadoo:

ilikedaisiesinthespringtime:

davestriderthetimetraveler:

kittenmogu:

chromehearts:

pelicaneggs:

go here

http://www.myscriptfont.com/

instead of printing it off just use this blank thing that way you dont have to scan it or anything

so fill that out by pasting it in any art program and whatnot

then save it and upload it to that site

and itll give you an option to download it

so do that and then install it BAM

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I JUST GOT THIS ON MY TABLET IT’S SO COOL OH MY GOD

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for some reason it refused to recognize the third page of my letters but they were all pretty unnecessary mathematic things anyway so I’m not too worried. still something to keep in mind though, I hope it doesn’t happen for you!

paintfont.com would be a good place to go to quickly make a custom font for your comic!

ehh

It looks just as horrible in real life..even worse with the letter attached…

I’ll try this later.

https://www.calligraphr.com/en/ this is the new link

nobledukeofyork:

I still can’t believe people have the gall to say Free! continuing is nothing but milking the cash cow while truly believing their beloved anime series is nowhere near that because it’s a showcase of amazing animation paving the way for equal acceptance for the LGBT community with all its merch in literally almost all forms of media rolling out non-stop. Pfft. I believe we’re all of age to realize this but I’ll put it into words anyway. All anime are aimed to make fans buy their merch because producers love money. They love money. If you want to support artists who produce out of passion, go watch some indie films, not some anime that are meant to suck fans dry of their hard-earned money with all those unnecessary stuff.