You know the weird feeling you get when you hear a song for the first time, and then you hear it 20 more times within the same day? Or you just read about a new car and then start seeing them everywhere. That kind of crap happens to me every single day because I'm learning Kanji. It can happen to you too!
While it kinda sucks having to relearn to read as an adult, it has also been incredibly rewarding lately. I study a few new words and BAM, I'm seeing them in books, in games, online, at work, freakin everywhere!...except TV because screw Japanese TV. I study it once and life takes over and helps me review it all day/every day.
All the Japanese I don't know is just lumped into that big category of 'crap I don't know', so when I do see a known kanji it just pops right out against the blur. Its like my Japanese is piecing itself together and coming into focus. And speaking of Kanji, the JLPT sign-up starts tomorrow. Everyone else should be getting on their kanji studying as well.
You know what also starts tomorrow? The end of the world according to Japanese news. Starting April first the sales tax is going up from 5% to 8%, and holy crap the idiots making a scene. It is like Y2K all over again, but dumber for some reason. I can almost get past all the crazy claims like "it's going to put (insert store or restaurant name here) out of business." The little things are what have really been eating at me .
Flocking to department stores to stock up on toilet paper for example. Seriously, holy shit people! It is, quite literally, not even worth my time to think about the sales tax increase for more than 2 seconds, and citizens are taking a separate driving trip to the store, paying about $6/gallon for gas, to save a few yen on toilet paper...What is wrong with this picture?? Everything, that is what.
So I guess what I'm trying to say is study your kanji for a rewarding experience in Japan, and don't freak the hell out over (literal) pennies.
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