first update!
Ok, after chit chatting so much about how I will learn Hindi I figured I better actually get started. (But isn’t talking about language learning on the internet basically the same as doing it??)
I loved bungakushoujo’s anecdote in her log about learning kanji slowly and thoroughly from the kanken step books:*
And that got me all fired up for slow and sustained growth!! 
*I want to do the same thing with the kanken step books so bad, but i gotta stop trying to add stuff to my Japanese routine. ok japanese digression over
I decided to choose one character/syllable per day to practice. Starting with ‘ka,’ which has a vowel pronounced in the middle of the mouth, unlike the Japanese ka which is brighter. [cut to me in my car like 
ka … ka]
I downloaded some worksheets and printed them out to practice at work.
Yayy, so satisfying!!!
But… I need more…
Ok, I think I know that one now. 
I could seriously sit down and learn scripts for languages all day, which is why I have to restrain myself with Japanese; it would be easy for me to start practicing Japanese handwriting like a madman and end up not spending any other time interacting with the language.
I still had like 2 hours left of work at this point so I was starting to think I should have chosen two syllables to learn instead of just one. But I couldn’t remember what the next syllable my textbook introduced was, so instead I copied out a page of the Japanese book I was reading.
as you can see, I don’t know how to write any kanji… another reason I need the kanken step books
Then I got home and was taking a look at my textbook to see what the next syllable would be and…
Hold on!! The textbook stroke order has the little left loopy first, but my worksheet had the center line first! The worksheet… lied?? Or maybe stroke order just isn’t as important in this script as it is for kanji. 
That’s all for now, tune in next time to see more pictures of my kindergarten handwriting as I slowly learn this script. 
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