This program also confused me by romanizing ぢこぢ as ‘jikodi’. Is there some rule where it can change pronunciations, or are these just two different romanizations of the same phoneme?

Thanks also for the list of kanji. I knew most of them already (very encouraging!), but I learned a few too. The compound for bicycle seems kind of redundant, containing the vehicle radical, then the vehicle character. But I suppose this kind of thing must happen all the time.

I actually don’t know any Japanese at all, but have progressed through four-hundred characters of Heisig’s “Remembering the Kanji: Volume 1″. In fact I’m more interested in learning Chinese, but I just love Heisig’s book and it’s helping me to become familiar with the characters (even if their meanings might occasionally differ between the two languages). And since I’m using it, I can’t help but be interested in learning Japanese now too, so I’ve just learned the hiragana. Anyway, I digress.

Thank-you for the blogging!