Japanese - Ask questions thread

Basically if you have a question about the language, ask it and fellow 4channers might see it and answer it for you.

To start it off. When an animate object (iru) dies, is it considered inanimate(aru)?

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Thanks for the links!
I tried to import some of the information. I split it into three anki files (radicals, lvl 1 kanji, lvl 1 vocabulary)
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=CXEYBYSV

The radicals don't include the pictures from wwwjdic (I think the pictures are combinations from other radicals?) and I realized there was at least 曰 (flat sun) missing but oh well.
The radicals are taken from http://www.nuthatch.com/kanji/demo/strokes.html

The jlpt vocab and kanji are from http://www.nishigo.co.uk/files/japanese_jlpt1_lite_no_duplicate.xls
which has no duplicates supposedly.

I think I'll start by memorizing the radicals then finish the decks that come with the program and then see what's missing to complete level 4-3-2. If I could finish everything up to that point it'd be great...