WaniKani Update
My Flaming Durtles settings are now:
Lessons:
- Order: Level, Type
- Reverse Order
(Unchanged from before.)
Reviews:
- Order[1]: SRS Stage / Level
- Order[2]: Level / SRS Stage
- Reverse Order
- Overdue items first *
- Priority: Current-level items first
I do reviews with one Order, then I go into the Advanced Review Settings and change the order and do more reviews.
For non-Apprentice, I want to review everything (including leeches), and that’s what “SRS Stage / Level” allows me to do. I review until I reach an Apprentice item.
At this point, the only Apprentice I want to do is recent levels, regardless of SRS Stage. This is when I switch to “Level / SRS Stage”.
I’m making steady progress with lessons (at least five Lessons per week). My Apprentice leeches continue to be mostly ignored. (I have 253 Apprentice leeches.)
Reading Update
Well, that didn’t happen.
Looking at my manga reading pace, I can read more volumes this year than I did last year if my budget allows it. I’ve reached a point where it’s my available cash for hobby spending that’s the constraint.
I should focus on novel reading to help continue my reading practice and progress while also keeping my expenses down. (Especially when I’m averaging completing two manga volumes per week. If I leave the furnace off for the weekend and eat rice or ramen, I can afford to buy another volume!)
I’m planning to try reworking my reading schedule as such:
- Do not read comics until after doing book reading for the day.
- Aim to complete one page of the かがみ per day. (At this pace, I would finish by mid-2023!)
- Join in reading 夜カフェ and keep on pace.
My hope is that 夜カフェ being Beginner Book Club and かがみ being Intermediate Book Club translates to the former being easier to read multiple pages per day. Granted, club designation sometimes is more about the pace of reading than the difficulty of the material.