The most friendly sellers...

[nachtschatten_]

... are the most successful. That's, for example, why I never returned to the kiosk where I was rudely told I may not view the magazines before I buy them. Note: View them, not actually read them

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Flash cards

[denisg]

Flash cards are really fun and help a lot, especially they are a very good start if you don't have much vocabulary yet. We started our Japanese lessons with them, and it is particularly fun when learning with them in groups. (Though learning together is always fun :) …)

I for my part started making flash cards for all my vocabulary (that will be more than two thousand flash cards ;) in Japanese-and I'm doing it by hand. That way I'm practicing the writing system too.