The one on a left is the G Gundam theme, but I can't remember which one.

I don't know what those songs are, but I can read hiragana....

I am learning Hiragana right now. I go to Japan club on Thursdays at school.

Me, I just pick out a certain set of letters, like ka, ki, ku, ke, ko, and then write about four lines of each. That's enough for me to learn each. I know some misc ones, like i, ri, tsu, etc. from translating common words from a big booklet of Japanese words.

I write the ones I know on the back of homework or random sheets, to see just how much I know.

I can read some of it...I'm studying Japanese and the language, but it's been going kind of slow for me since I have to teach myself.

That, and I just totally stink at memorizing. ._.

Yeah, every now and then I'll write actual words out to practice Kana, but that doesn't really allow instantaneous practice very well since my actual memorized vocabulary is very small. So I write charts out when I don't have a sheet with a bunch of Roomaji words on it.

And yeah, I write them on the back of schoolwork too. Once I turned in a pop quiz a few seconds late because I had to write down a few more Kana.

I hate how Roomaji writes the じ and the ぢ the same. It always messes me up on words I don't know the kana for (which is most). I'd think じ would be more of a 'zhi' or something considering its unvoiced equivalent...

According to language reforms, じ and ぢ are technically pronounced the same, since not enough people could tell the difference... but if you go by voicing there is a subtle difference, that's true. Same with づ and ず. I think there's one Romaji system that distinguished them as "dzu" and "zu" but I don't remember how it handled じ and ぢ.

This is me basically going off of Wikipedia, but since the sounds are technically the same, which one you use in spelling depends on certain situations. Defaults are ず and じ. If it's after an unvoiced つ or ち and it's the same vowel sound, you'd use that one with the dakuten... er, easier to show than explain. Like for "tsuzuku" it would be つづく but for... *thinks* can't think of a normal word. "Suzumiya" then, that would be すずみや. Also, if the original kanji was spelled with that unvoiced kana, like 血 spelled ち and meaning blood, then if in a kanji compound the kana becomes voiced, you'd use the voiced version of that kana and not the default one. Like, say... hana + chi = hanaji (nosebleed, obviously anime influenced vocabulary here XD) you'd spell it はなぢ and not はなじ.

In any case if the Romaji is screwing you up, use a dictionary with readings in kana instead.

Cruel Angel's Thesis FTW

(Though, technically it should be a katakana テーゼ, but wutever. xP)

Yah I know. Wrote it in Hiragana anyway... just for practice.

I oughta practice Katakana more... it's just not used as much, so I never bothered.