The roughly mid-90's and earlier (generally pre-Toonami, pre-anime boom) era of anime & manga fandom: early cons, clubs, tape trading, Nth Generation VHS fansubs, old magazines & fanzines, fandubs, ancient merchandise, rec.arts.anime, and more!
greg wrote:Don't worry, kanji is the bane of every Japanese language learner. Unless they're from China, but even then I imagine that having to relearn the characters might prove difficult, and Japanese kanji evolved differently than the more simplified Chinese kanji. I think people who are highly artistic may be able to pick up kanji more easily, too.
Which reminds me, I should be devoting more time to studying for the N3 test instead of being on this forum at work during my free time...
I haven't taken it, but I have study books that I have breezed over. I already know about half of what's expected. They have such mock tests you can buy at the bookstore that contain a CD for the listening test portions of the test. They cost only about 680 yen or so.
