WARNING: If you’ve been following the Descent of the Durtle Madness thread, you may be aware that a spoiler was uncovered OUT OF ORDER… meaning that a step in the puzzle may be able to be skipped. THIS THREAD CONTAINS SPOILERS If you want to continue solving the pieces in order, DO NOT READ THI…

Tombow: So are we tracking which books we already have accounted for? Maybe I have one someone doesn’t? Genki 1, Genki 1 Workbook, and Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar all had valid words. So far, we have pages above from the correct version of Minna no Nihongo and Japanese From Zero. …

Which books did the Tofugu article speak particularly highly of? Or which are most popular? Genki and DoBJG aren’t surprising if they picked the books based on either of those criteria.

Possibly I missed a comment, but it’s worth repeating even if so… Are we considering the note under the cryptic text in the image from the other. The text that said “Warning Spaces are required?”

There’s no way of knowing if that would have been used in one of the skipped steps.

We still have to figure out the order and input format too. That might have been what the space comment referred to.

For electronic character counting pleasure, the Japanese For Everyone page posted earlier. So many options of things to skip when counting. Characters in the figure? (I replaced kanji by x for ease of excluding when I get there. LESSON 3 c. Counting beyond 10 11 (xx) juu-ichl 100 (x) hyaku (-…

[image] rfindley: Japanese: The Spoken Language (Sep 1987) 9780300038347 168 19 1 6 5 5 5 10 9 i’m looking at that “5 5 5” and thinking there can’t be many (or perhaps any) words in English with the same letter three times in a row.

Adventures in Japanese has a preview on the author’s website, and the ISBN matches: [image] [page 33, characters 98 2 55 34 9 10] [image]

[image] Oyashiro: [image] rfindley: Japanese: The Spoken Language (Sep 1987) 9780300038347 168 19 1 6 5 5 5 10 9 i’m looking at that “5 5 5” and thinking there can’t be many (or perhaps any) words in English with the same letter three times in a row. Unless that one happens to includ…

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Saruko January 10, 2019, 4:57am 61

Japanese: The Spoken Language has the Look Inside feature on Amazon.

Here are screenshots of page 168

Upper half

Lower half

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