Happy Thursday!
Every Thursday, come here to share your progress! Get to a high level in Wanikani? Complete a course? Finish Genki 1? Tell us about it here! Feel yourself falling off the wagon? Tell us about it here and let us lift you back up!
Weekly Thread changes daily at 9:00 JST:
Mondays - Writing Practice
Tuesdays - Study Buddy and Self-Intros
Wednesdays - Materials and Self-Promotions
Thursdays - Victory day, Share your achievements
Fridays - Memes, videos, free talk
Today is my 7th day of studying Japanese! :)
I have been doing 20 words per day in Anki, and ofcourse going through all the reviews. It's a bit of a slog, and yesterday i spent over 2 hours (i think i was just having a bad day and my brain refused to recall anything). Today was much better and i was back to under 1 hour to complete everything.
I will probably purchase a copy of Genki vol.1 or something similar too, so that i can start learning the grammar. I'm mainly focusing on an immersion approach, but i think it's probably important to have a textbook to study through on top of my anki and watching native japanese content approach.
I just passed the 2 year mark. I'm re-watching Hunter x Hunter as my yearly benchmark and I barely have to look up words anymore and there's almost nothing for me to mine. I still a long way to go but I almost can't believe this was gibberish to me 2 years ago when I started.
I really wish to be in this place in 2 years. Care to share what were the most effective strategies for you to reach this level?
It's a new year! I decided that I wanted to pass the N1 this december, and finish my 100th novel by end of the year (just finished my 37th one).
At this point about half of my motivation is to continue learning, and about half of it is just that I enjoy reading, especially physical books from the library lately.
Anyway, here's this week's victories:
Read 雪国. Way over my head, probably would have stopped if it was longer. But I figured let's see what we can glean from this and then maybe reread it in like a year. Overall an interesting sort-of love story, also kind of depressing. I feel like I barely scratched the surface with this one.
Read 舟を編む. From one of my favorite writers, Miura Shion (I really love 神去なあなあ日常). It was a really hilarious book about people making a dictionary. Saw the movie too which was also heartwarming but lost a lot of the humor.
Read 告白. People have been recommending this for ages and I couldn't put the book down. It's the story of a mother's revenge, pretty dark and several twists and turns.
Also I went to the library which has an alright Japanese section, and took out a bunch of books! I read 舟を編む and 告白 in physical. Much as I like ebooks for easy lookups and adding to Anki, there's something really fun for extensive reading physical.
Next about to start 本好き vol 4 ;)
Finally started burning items on Wanikani