伝説の勉強裏 | A quest to learn japanese: Master Quest
I finished WaniKani over a year ago, but there’s still so much to learn! And so, I’m reviving this study log with A quest to learn Japanese: Master Quest. I have six general goals (each corresponding with one of six Ocarina of Time temples 
). I’ve already started on these, and in fact I wanted to wait until I knew I could do them before actually making this post.
These are long-term goals. In a way, they’re a way for me to categorize what I need to work on and make smaller goals that push me towards the bigger goal. In fact, I already have some mini goals (marked with the beginner symbol 
) that are much easier to achieve.
There’s no end date, but I’ll be checking in once a month and giving an update on my progress.
Usually, I think having an end date is really important for setting goals. But since these are such long-term goals, I think it’ll be better for me to chip away at them slowly. Some months I might focus more on grammar. Other months, I’ll work on speaking. But I want to make at least some progress in all of them each month. Whether it’s a little progress or a lot of progress, it’s still progress!
Review N3 grammar
I’m reviewing N3 grammar on Bunpro after resetting last winter. But I’m not necessarily spending the same amount of effort on each grammar point! Here’s how I’m taking notes:
- Already know it? Reading the lesson as a quick refresher and marking as mastered
- Don’t remember at all? It’s basically new info then! Handwriting notes and adding to reviews
- Sort of remember? Probably won’t rewrite notes, but I’ll add to reviews
And then for the grammar that I’m really interested in from a linguist perspective, I’m taking some notes in Obsidian regardless if I know the grammar or not.
MINI GOAL: First 5 sections reviewed
Read 16000 manga pages
That seems like a lot of pages, but really it’s 100 160-page manga. So not too crazy, right? Especially with no end date.
I chose manga because 1) they’re easier for me to get through than books, 2) digital manga are more consistent page-wise than digital books, and 3) I have way too many manga in my TBR
Along those lines, I’ve rejoined the Read Every Day challenges, which will help me stay on track!
MINI GOAL: 1600 pages (10 manga)
Burn all WK items
This is by far the most arduous task ahead of me, and I won’t finish for 6 months at the earliest. And probably much, much longer.
I’ve noticed my kanji comprehension slipping in the last several months, likely because I haven’t been reading. Reading is more important to me, but I’d like to fit in some SRS again to establish a routine.
The first stage, of course, is to get through the mountain of reviews. Going to chip away at it 10 reviews at a time. Every day, I want my review pile to be at least 10 below what it was the day before. For example, yesterday I ended at 1130 reviews left, so today I want to end at 1120 reviews, and tomorrow 1110 reviews. But if today I end at 1100 left, tomorrow I need to end at 1090.
This is quite a slow pace, but since most of these reviews have been ready for months I think a few more months won’t hurt. And I want to avoid hundreds of apprentice items at once lol
MINI GOAL: 8000 burned (only ~50 more!)
with 8500 and 9000 as additional mini goals
Listen actively for 50 hours
Listening: the thing I keep telling myself I’ll practice, and then don’t 
Recently I’ve switched to watching Comprehensible Japanese on their actual site instead of youtube. They have a built-in tracker that tells you how much time you’ve listened!
I’d like my total lifetime study hours on Comprehensible Japanese to be 50 hours. This is a very doable goal, I just have to actually put in the time.
MINI GOAL: 10 hours
Vanquish leeches and ghosts
This ties into burning all items, but it’s a quest of its own.
Right now I apparently have 343 leeches on WK and 0 ghosts on Bunpro. I’m sure these numbers will change a lot though.
I can’t remember if I’ve talked about how I study leeches before, if not I’ll write a different reply b/c I’d love to explain the setup and routine in full (and this post is already pretty long!) But tldr I use Self Study to find them and then study collocations so I understand the meaning better.
MINI GOAL: no leeches left from levels 1-16
Speak my thoughts
Speaking is by far my worst language skill. In English and Japanese lol. I’m continuing my previous goal of doing all Irodori chapters.
MINI GOAL: Irodori Starter complete
Going to track my progress in the next post and link it at the top b/c this post is already getting long enough 