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(Please excuse any typos, etc., it's a bad allergy day)

Since the launch of Moonrune Saga way back at the end of last year, we've looked at 10 of the mistakes found in Konosuba Clothes of Desire, sometimes examining more than one line as we did. I hope it's been an enlightening experience regardless of how much Japanese you know. 

As we move further away from when I last played Clothes of Desire (sometime last year) my memory of the context for problems and where they occurred in game becomes vaguer. 

Basically, I've hit a point where I need to set aside time to play through Clothes of Desire again. Twice! Once in English via Steam, and again in Japanese on Switch. For most of the game this is the ideal way to collect the required screenshots. Attempting to play the same save on Steam, switching languages during sessions, kind of breaks those saves. The log, for example, doesn't update to the new language. Given this, I only want to juggle multiple language saves on Steam for the DLC content that isn't accessible on Switch. 

Now it's not all bad news. I have most of the chapters plotted out for a couple of the routes, so I have a good idea of how to reach specific events in a timely fashion. Ideally, I'd like to collect enough for another 10 issues of Textbook Example. 

This brings me to the other reason why I'd like to temporarily pause Textbook Example. You may recall that there are currently three parts to Moonrune Saga listed on the homepage: Zero to Hero, Textbook Example, and Iroha. 

I'd like to now launch this last section. It's a fairly important part of the site that needs to be available before we move from N5 grammar to N4. I had hoped to write these alongside the Zero to Hero and Textbook Example, but life has not been kind enough to afford me the energy to do so.

First, please answer the poll: 

https://www.patreon.com/posts/126282138

Next, if you have yet to learn hiragana and katakana (or are struggling with learning it), please let me know if there's anything you'd like to see included that you think will help you. While I can't promise to include everything, don't hold back!

If you have a solid grounding of hiragana and katakana, what would you like to see in such a piece? Perhaps for revision or to help with kanji and similar.

Thank you in advance for any and all feedback! Please look forward to the next Zero to Hero lesson launching at the end of this week.

Comments

Fiorion

I look forward to the grammar stuff! Personally I am confident with my hiragana and katakana and even if I am not, I can easily search up a list online and practice it myself. Personally I am struggling with remembering vocabulary and kanji, and there are thousands out there. What should I focus on? What are the commonly used ones? That is my struggle.

Moonrune Saga

Thanks for the input! While I get that learning hiragana and katakana should be easy with all the material out there, I do feel that having at least something locally here, will also help as an incentive -- and at least as a quickly referenceable resource without needing to go elsewhere. I do think that there will always be better resources out there than what I could provide right now. But, I would like to tie this into Zero to Hero and approach it from that angle, that is, include some story element to it. Your vocab and kanji points are things I want to address to, to some degree. As part of this intro, to help ease people who are completely new to the language into kana, I was intending to include some vocabulary that contained the kana in question. This could also include a few kanji at a time. Come to think of it, my Kanji and Kana book is out of date. It was published prior to the most recent change in Joyo kanji. I'll have to brush up, too! It might take time to flesh out a format that can cover most things, but I hope everyone's feedback will help to do that. Worst case scenario for Textbook Example is a break of a few months. But I honestly don't like that idea myself. Best case scenario, while collecting the screenshots, etc., needed, I'd like to scale down to 1 piece for maybe a month, two at most.