I have returned. I know I haven't updated this in over 20 days, and i have no excuse but to say i was being lazy and procrastinating. But now I have a binder in which to practice writing what I'm learning. If you know of any worksheets that are designed to help people learn to wright the different "alphabets" let me know. What I'm working on know is learning how to properly pronounce what textfugu refers to as the foundation hirigana. If I can successfully learn to properly pronounce them it will make learning Japanese that much easier. Wish me luck.