๐Ÿ“š๐Ÿ’ก BiaboIos Study Log

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Hi everyone, Biabolos back with the second study log. 11 days have become 12 and things have been moving faster than expected in some areas and slower in others.

Languages I speak
:england: English (Native)
:japan: Japanese (closer than last week)

Materials & Resources :books: Genki I - chapter 4. the grammar is clicking. some of the example sentences have been familiar before i read them. not the grammar. the specific sentences. iโ€™ve been leaving those pages face down. they should not be up. I should not let them up.

:laptop: WaniKani - level 2, reviews every morning without fail. the kanji is resistant in a way that feels different from just being difficult. like certain ones donโ€™t want to stick no matter how many times i review them. and then others land immediately on the first encounter in a way that doesnโ€™t make sense for where i am. iโ€™m keeping a separate log of which ones do which.

:headphone: Passive listening immersion - still every night before sleep. woke up twice this week mid sentence. wrote down what I could remember. cross referencing with the kanji log. Once I know more about Japanese, I intend to revisit my logs and decipher what the man says. He says the same thing every time.

Progress:

kanji is hurting me. the kanji is the wall. some of it feels like itโ€™s actively fighting back. i donโ€™t know how else to describe the experience of reviewing the same character fifteen times and having it gone by morning.

What Iโ€™m struggling with:

there are kanji i canโ€™t retain no matter what i do. I see them frequently same ones every time. always the same ones and yet I canโ€™t understand no matter how hard I try. iโ€™ve started wondering if the problem is me or the kanji.

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PS, am I meant to be doing it this way? Posting 1 the day after the other, or in the same log? Please let me know. Thanks!

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Normally people have one thread and write updates in their thread. Some update once a week or month, some update every day, some update irregularly.
Every time you update a thread it gets bumped to the top of the category so you donโ€™t have to fear that people donโ€™t see your updates.

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Is it considered poor etiquette to make several threads for study log?

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Up to you, but essentially everybody uses the same thread. If you make new threads each time youโ€™ll lose track of past threads quickly, navigation will become a nightmare. Having it in one place is just better, thereโ€™s no real benefit to a new thread each time. You can update the home post of your thread as many times as you like as well to use it more like a table of contents for the thread.

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