Acquiring Kanji using KLC

A.S. Conning is of the view that you just absorb the ON-yomi as you go. Let's set THAT notion aside.

Where we agree is in not using rōmaji. I have no idea whether I will follow the use of lowercase and BOLD uppercase as he does in his book.

All that you need is to know to follow this story is hiragana script and the first 100 kanji in his book ( we start at 101. )

But I will help by giving the backstory using those first 100.

On day one you accept his way of working through the book. Or else. Day one. 日 and 一.

Or someone may say,

 初日から彼が問題となっていた。

But I doubt that I will have to say that about you !

Let's suppose that the following gave you no trouble :

  2,一,one
  3,ニ,two
  4,三,three
  5,十,ten
  6,四,four
  7,五,five
  8,六,six
  9,七,seven
10,八,eight
11,九,nine
12,丸,round
13,円,circle ; yen
14,〇,zero (placeholder) ; circle mark (blank)

Be sure that you recall the stroke order of 九 and 丸 .  Do you remember what the intro to the book says about his use of circle marks ?  ( his page 20, for example. )

If you are reading this, but do not have the book, I cannot be expected to save you from yourself.

That last phrase sounds like one Kate's mother might have used.

She probably only had a hundred of those old saws, but to Kate it seemed more like a thousand saws and had the effect of ten thousand on a bad day.

But she was only human, and her mother could rightly say that she, for one, was only one person, and that there is, after all, only so much that you can expect one person to be able to do ( speaking for herself, that is, not for daughter Kate. )

The summer had ended with Kate taking the slight nut-brown of her bobbed hair and taking it to a burnt orange with henna from the drugstore. Nietzsche no where mentions henna.

15,人,human being
16,百,hundred
17,千,thousand
18,万,ten thousand

But Kate was already 18 and at 19 would be able to enter bars with any number of tattoos exposed ... and not likely the henna of childhood summers ... but her mother could not see that.

When do we first forget to take life one day at a time ... and not to juggle more than 5 new things on a single day.

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