So, I’m working through Tobira Beginning Japanese, and while I’m enjoying working through the textbook itself, I find myself getting stuck on the workbook. Though it’s not the workbook itself, so much as the “experience” of it: Being hunched over a desk, pencil grasped in my aching hand as I take ten minutes to string together a sentence with spindly little characters that just don’t look quite right. My displeasure over this has gotten so bad that I’ve barely studied grammar for the last two months due to being “stuck” on the workbook.
The first thought that comes to mind is to simply skip the workbook and focus on the drills in the main text. But for what it’s worth, it has been a great resource for reinforcement of what I’ve learned. It’s just that I can’t work up the will to go through the dang thing. On a good day I knock out one question, on most days I just don’t study at all.
Has anyone found other supplements for output practice which may help? An app, website, or anything of the sort? Or, alternatively, does anyone have any ideas on how to make going through workbooks less of a nightmare of an experience? I’m open to any suggestion, since all I know is that something needs to change in my study routine.