A final lesson.

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Well, the last lesson in hiragana.  Or... the standard hiragana.  Now, remains, the irregular forms, as well as the beginning of katakana and possibly irregular forms of it's pronunciations.  I won't say I have them down perfectly.  However, most sounds are very static, between vowel and consonant combinations with only a few having more complicated pronunciations (fu, as an example).  So, really, I am doing well.

However, memorizing how to write each character is a whole other thing.  That will take more of the time than most other aspects.  And, yet, I am going to try to have those sorted within a month, for each of the two sets of kana.  Kanji?  That... is more like a lifetime process which will never quite be sorted, fully.  Much as with English, and trying to learn every word.  Just in the medical, engineering, industrial (pick a particular one), or academic circle, there are words no one outside of it would, or should learn.  It would be out of context in any other setting.  And without even more words to set it up, it just wouldn't make sense.

This time I timed it.  It took right at an hour and an half, minus a little less than a minute.  That was with a couple of short breaks, and a stroll downstairs to seek water.  I am positive it takes much less time than the first three sessions, and it is becoming quicker still, most likely.  

I no longer cramp up, just from sitting in the proper position to study and write.  I not longer get writers' cramps at neck, elbow, hand, or elsewhere.  Though, too, I have learned to do small stretches, or even get up and get downstairs.  Even if I do nothing but go down, look around, then go back up, it helps.

I may do another session this afternoon.  But I won't start anything new until Monday.  The goal is simply to review what I have studied to point, and practice writing, nearly calligraphy, so as to begin crafting flash cards of the characters, and then, eventually, flash cards for vocabulary.

The vocabulary that has been presented, so far, has been simpler expressions, of two to five characters.  Though not always is the meaning understood.  A circular fan?  Is that a round shaped electric fan?  Or is that a folding fan, of a mechanical nature?  As well, there are nouns, verbs, and other included.  So far, all verbs seem to be in their simple, or root, form.  I am waiting more for the grammar lessons to begin truly focusing on vocabulary.  Though, when I do begin to hit it, I will hit it hard.

A nap?  Perhaps.  After lunch?  That would be nice.  Later.