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Short history, I was subscribed for two years, burned out hard, and quit when the subscription ran out. After the extended break, I bought Lifetime during the sale last Januaryā¦and proceeded to slack off for three months lol.
But since a few days I started doing reviews again, and today I came upon this kanji: č¢
Looked hard at it, said to myself, āNope, donāt recognize you,ā and clicked Skip
. When it came back around later (reading) I had a gut feeling that it was ćć
ć, and what do you know itās right. A few items later the meaning comes around, and my fingers reflexively typed sleev
(yes with that misspelling). AND IT WAS CORRECT.
And it was a burn too.
I am just astounded how it was a subconscious thing, and that I actually remembered somehow (despite the others Iāve clearly forgottenāthe leeches that are becoming even more leech-y now that theyāve been untrained). But to me this is a small achievement, and I know that if I push on I can definitely, if slowly, reach level 60.
Man, this script is very special to me.
A month and a half ago, I had a stack of 1000 lessons and 1800 reviews. I started using the reorder script January 2020 to ālearn fasterā, and you can see it eventually led to burnout and lesson ignoring. To say I was half-assing and cutting corners would be an understatement.
In May this year, though, I was browsing the forums and saw Kumiās heatmap script. I installed it 'cuz Iām a sucker for quantifying progress (the whole reason I used reorder script in the first place), and then I looked at and had a simple but serious realization.
āIāVE WASTED SOOOO MUCH TIMEā
This realization rekindled the original passion and urgency I had for learning Japanese way back when I started, in a way thatās kind of indescribable.
So I started clearing the piles. As many reviews as I could possibly do at first, then adding in lessons after reviews were manageable. 2-4 hours a day. By the end of the first week, the review stack was goneāand by the end of the second, I added in lessons, too.
Now, I think Iām back on track. I have only about 100 lessons (from the most recent level up), and Iām zeroing my reviews every night
Iām also doing daily listening and reading practice again, which I hadnāt done for a while.
So thanks, @Kumirei. You helped rekindle my love for Japanese.
Good job! Now donāt break that streak
New Heatmap update. Last one was 505 days ago lmao.
Seeing this makes me reconsider why Iām even doing all this. I didnāt really expect anything but I thought Iād be a bit further with Japanese by now but I didnāt really invest the time I could have so thereās that.
However, I wont ever go to Japan nor did I have a reason why I started. But unlike most other things I tried that I was never able to make a habit and keep up with long-term like programming, playing an instrument or other hobbies and such, of all things Japanese is what stuck.
Fun?
Hehe, absolutely! It wasnāt meant too seriously else I wouldnāt still be here after all.
The amount of reviews have dropped to the point where Iām only visiting WK twice a week. Only had 26 reviews this entire month. Gave up on keeping a streak, not enough reviews to keep it going.
Slowly making my way to 60 with lots of little breaks in between for university and work! Hopefully will hit 60 by the end of the year.
Very reminiscent of my own heatmap!
Hereās what mine currently looks like. You can see my thesis deadline in July and the 1.5 week I went on vacation in October. Other than that thereās not much to see, aside from me gradually leveling up slower the further I get
My streak broke today. I was too busy shopping and fretting and worrying about stuff that I just kinda forgot about WK lol. Well I just get like 60 reviews per day now so I guess itās about time to slowly move on from WK and focus more on my Anki decks and immersion.
Today I reached a milestone: 1000 days of clearing my reviews.
(Iām on the 6-year plan, aiming for consistency rather than speed.)
The light colours are where I dropped back to 1 lesson per day instead of quitting.
I could make a joke about viola players and speedā¦ because Iām one myself nice profile picture!
By the way, I started learning in
Never too late to start or continue anything, keep it up!
ps: what do viola players and lightning have in common? ā¦ They never hit the same spot twice!
Oh my, that is very impressive! Must be a record lesson streak
Woah the 1000 lesson streak is really impressive