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(I hereby reserve 37% of all applause for Regina Spektor)

Yes...

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I have learned ALL HIRAGANA! ALL 107 OF THE LITTLE DEVILS!!

As with this post, you start off immediately thinking, WHY should I care?! Well, honestly, I don't know. If you're not interested, then it's beyond both you and me why you would want to sit down and read this drivel.

Anyways, I'll skip the self-depreciation. Remember when you were too little to write your name properly, and your parents were delighted when they saw you skipping around singing this incomprehensible, yet jolly little tune called the alphabet song?

Now. Imagine your parents sitting you down and telling you that you had to learn over EIGHT MORE of these little tunes in order to have completed your FIRST ALPHABET out of THREE??! Honestly, Japan, I tip my bonnet to you, and expect my fellow Americans to do the same. Except for, you know, the men. Well... some of them.

NEVERMIND.

So, JUST thought I'd step in for a sec and let you all see how I'm doing. (For all Japanese-enthusiasts, it ONLY takes about three days to graduate from learning the basic Hiragana to graduating from the syllabary altogether!)

Thanks for reading!! :D

P.S. HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, AMERICA! THOUGH THE DAY IS OVER, THE PARTYING NEVER ENDS!