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  1. Decided to go through with learning Japanese.

    I have been waiting to find useful vocabulary resources before diving in headfirst. But it's become clear that I'm just procrastinating.

    I think learning the grammar should give me enough of a foothold for my chosen method of learning that I can just look up everything else.

    The plan is to finish with katakana, basic grammar, and radicals. Then proceed with brute-force reading until I remember the rest. This should make it a little bit less boring than just grinding anki ...
  2. Self-Teaching Japanese

    The Japanese-only release of Remake has got me thinking about learning Japanese again. I have already built up a range of online and offline resources to to help me with this.

    I have a few minor advantages going into this:
    - I have already taught myself hiragana to the extent that I can read anything written in it at a moderate pace, and have made good progress with katakana.
    - I am already familiar with some linguistic terminology and the IPA because of my conlanging hobby. ...