やった！

It's a real tiny step, but still I want to highlight it and give myself a tap on the shoulder over it, as a way to reward and motivate myself.
I use Anki for memorising Kanji, and it has a tool that shows how many and which Kanji you already know.
Today, it showed that I mastered all kanji from the first grade of Elementary school.  Yatta!

As you can see on the picture, I also already know a big part of the list for the second grade, so that will be my next aim.  Get to know them all by the end of the year? Where's my daruma?

By the way, the ultimate goal is 2000 kanji, right?　　がんばりますよ。

This is where I feel I am now: at the plateau...

or rather, the Valley...or Canyon...

I have the feeling that I'm not making progress in Japanese lately,

despites all my efforts to memorise tons of words, verbs, kanji, sentences ...

Is it normal?  It seems it's widely discussed on internet.

もういちどう

がんばってね

More dots ...

Another example of more dots to connect.

I watched this great drama about a teacher and her class of Japanese-studying foreigners: 日本人の知らない日本語 - Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo.
The series are very humorous and hilarious from time to time. Very often, misunderstandings and communication issues are leading to comical situations while at the same time revealing cultural insights from both Japanese and foreigners living in Japan.




I enjoyed the show very much, and I wanted to know more about this highly amusing teacher.
Her name is Riisa Naka (仲 里依紗 Naka Riisa) .

While browsing her filmography, I found she has played the lead in other famous movies, such as
Toki o Kakeru Shōjo/The Girl Who leapt Through Time (Live Action) (2010) [Actualy she also did the voice in the 2006 anime] and Zebraman 2: Attack on Zebra City (ゼブラーマン -ゼブラシティの逆襲) by Takashi Miike.

From this movie, 2 energetic videoclips have emerged: "NAMIDA～ココロアバイテ～" and "Zebra Queen Theme [ゼブラクイーンのテーマ]".






Riisa-san also performed in other drama (which I haven't seen yet), such as My Boss My Hero and Yankee-kun to Megane-chan.