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How i learn Kanji and why I LOVE learning Kanji

"Learning kanji is the worst" "You have to learn over 2000 of them?! Nooo wayy" Well well well. Learning kanji is my favorite part of learning Japanese. I know it can seem intimidating - after all, we are talking about more than 2000 characters! Of course, learning random pictures without 
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4 months of learning Japanese daily

An no, no Duolingo involved! Every day I wake up early and spend more than an hour learning Japanese before going to work. At the very beginning, I learned Hiragana and Katakana. Then, I introduced myself to radicals (small elements that build up kanji) and kanji themselves (which is my 
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ZPGs — games that play themselves

ZPG (zero-player game) is the kind of game that… play itself. The player doesn’t have to use the keyboard, click, tap or even visit the game regularly for it to progress. To start most ZPGs, a player only need to set a few initial parameters and the rest happens 
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Japan, Nov 2023 (3 weeks)

Tokyo & Kyushu (Yakushima, Kagoshima, Kumamoto, Hakata, Kitakyushu, Beppu) It's hard to even start. I've been to many places, many countries... Enjoyed them, cherished them. But I never knew I could fall in love with a country. The flight was long and tiring, with a transfer in Doha. 
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Greece, Oct/Nov 2021

Athens, Mycenae, Corinth, Livadeia Greece, in a nutshell, did not stole my heart. I would describe the trip there as one of the least successful of my life, though of course that doesn't mean there weren't nice moments as well. I'll confess that I planned this trip inspred by the 
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China, Nov 2020

Shanghai, Suzhou, Hangzhou, Huangshan, Nankin An extremely interesting country, worth visiting if only for its "closedness" and being part of the daily life of virtually most of the world. A visa for Poles costs about 300PLN and is valid for 3 months - worth it! I remembered 
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