You could use the free app Duolingo, which recently added Japanese. You should learn at least the hiragana to help you read and write. Textfugu has some charts for hiragana and katakana. (Hiragana and

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Welcome to Steemit! I'm Vecna, and I've been a vegetarian for 4 years, and I'm trying to go vegan. I also know some Japanese, and I thought I'd introduce myself. Nice to meet you, and good luck in Japan!

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For me, it's a moral thing. I've thought about it quite a lot, and I decided that I don't think eating meat or using animal byproducts in general is immoral. Certainly the industries that produce them

Hey hey! I'm an anarchist (or something like that... I think the ideal/utopian system has no government, but I also think some government may be necessary for some things because we live in an imperfect

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(Recognizing that this would never hold up in court as a legitimate argument) I would argue that there is no such thing in the first place as "ownership" of bitcoin. There is no real sense in

"I can just as easily be good friends with both men and women, just like 'straights' can be good friends with the opposite sex without sexual tension." Yeah, but you've got to bear in mind,

This is a huge issue for me. I have a lot of toxic perfectionism, and I have trouble starting anything. For instance, I'll buy a notebook, but it's really hard to get myself to start writing in it because

I really appreciate this post because I'm new here, and I've been looking for other cool women to follow, and I've noticed there doesn't seem to be much of a female community on here. In terms of my favorite

There's a big inconsistency where for some reason women's breasts are seen as a sexual body part that must be covered (despite their actual purpose having nothing to do inherently with sex), but men's

Welcome! Unfortunately, Steemit isn't very trans-friendly right now, and there doesn't seem to be a very big queer space in general. You're absolutely right that it's important to have open, polite

Welcome! Nice to meet you! I'm Vecna. I also love metal music. Thantifaxath, Carach Angren, and Chthonic are among my favorite bands. What are some bands you like?

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Thanks for making this post. It's a big issue that we see everywhere. I think it has a lot to do with the strong culture of competition: We want to always win. But that's not how we grow. We grow by learning

Wow, thanks for turning me onto new music! I liked a lot of these. I'm definitely going to have to listen to a lot more Unlucky Morpheus!!! I only knew 3 bands from your top 10, and I'm always glad to

It's worth noting, though, that in Japan students are required to study English starting from the beginning of junior high school. The thing is, English education in Japan is often not sufficient for a

Excellent post! I look forward to the rest of the series. Are you planning to talk about intersectional feminism in the future?

Satoshi is the Japanese name of the protagonist in Pokémon. His English name is Ash, which is 3 letters.