Lately I haven’t had a lot of time to dedicate to studying Japanese and at my job I speak English all day. Considering I am more of a student at heart than a worker it sort of breaks my heart that I don’t have that time to study. Therefore, I have been trying to come up with creative ways to get some Japanese into my everyday life.

So recently, I subscribed to the local Asahi elementary school newspaper and everyday I have been trying to read at least one article plus the section of a story that runs everyday. Because the audience of the newspaper is young children all the kanji characters have the readings next to them. This isn’t necessarily good for my kanji skills but because there is still a lot of vocabulary I don’t know it is good for me now. After a bit though I may move on to the middle school newspaper.