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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been watching a number of anime series this past few days. And I say this has deprived me A LOT of sleeping hours. I feel like a zombie every time I go to office for work. I know I need about 8 hours of sleep a day but I can&#8217;t help watching a &#8220;few&#8221; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisaruiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12606862&amp;post=264&amp;subd=raisaruiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Next, I&#8217;ll be Learning the Katakana</title>
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		<title>Japanese Writing</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[In writing Japanese, you will be dealing with 3 types of scripts: hiragana, katakana and kanji. KANJI (漢字) Kanji is the most ancient of the three Japanese writing systems. Kanji are Chinese characters adopted by the Japanese. The Japanese term kanji literally means &#8220;Han characters&#8221; or &#8220;Chinese characters&#8221;. Among the three main scripts, kanji is [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=raisaruiz.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12606862&amp;post=254&amp;subd=raisaruiz&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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