I guess I'm going to sound like a broken record, but the Heisig method goes a long way towards helping you distinguish between similar looking Kanji.
owls_mcgee ameliaanneyap I dunno, I've always preferred 'okaikei onegaishimasu', but there are a lot of different ways to say it.
That last tip is a fantastic way to kill myself through liver poisoning. Bad idea :P
Great resource. I drilled for about a year on regular lined paper and am constantly told that my balance is all screwed up. Will use this graph paper instead!
seifip Whoops! Will fix.
To kick things off here's our entry from Japanalicious: http://blog.japanalicious.com/japanese-beer.html , let me know if it's up to par!
seifip ali.najaf Yah, favourite Japanese movie so far has got to be Tampopo, posted a review of it a few months back here: http://blog.japanalicious.com/tampopo-movie-review.html
Nice writeup. I'll have to look up some of his movies after I get through my current Juzo Itami phase.