I got a gift card for Christmas. And…. I’m totally willing to blow it all on learning material. I have to be a lot more careful with what I choose to buy with it because the last purchase didn’t turn out so well. I didn’t quite pick the right material to study from (or the right material to get enjoyment from), and the books have largely just sat around. I tried to make use of them the best I could but I found it difficult to the point of burnout.
So this time we’ll do it all different-like 
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I think I’m gonna spring for a lot of reading material, and, if I find one I can enjoy and get a lot out of, an import DS game. Right now I’m really considering なぞって覚える大人の漢字練習 and 漢検DS3, both of which focus on kanji, but have a lot of vocabulary as well, which I’m severely at a loss for right now. Unfortunately, the only places I know of (online) that stock import games don’t have なぞって… and if they *do* have 漢検DS it’s probably going to be relatively expensive. There are a few others as well that I’ve been…trying out, so to speak, but these are my favorites. Barring one of the two above I have backup options (DS美文字トレーニング is awesome).
If I get any paper reading material, it’ll have to be simple manga (I’m still in love with よつばと), and at about 8 bucks a volume I can swing getting a few. Problem is, よつばと is almost too easy for me now. It has the occasional new word or slangy grammar point but it doesn’t feel dense enough to merit purchasing it in volumes just not to get much new out of it.
I’d really like an offline monolingual dictionary, paper or otherwise. A 電子辞書 would be heaven in an electronic device, but I don’t have that kind of money at the moment.
We’ll see. :/
