How many hours per week do you study using phone apps?

Japanese Language
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I have a statistics projects and I’m collecting data on how many hours per week Japanese learners use phone apps for their studies!
Remember to keep it to phone apps, not web apps.
Duolingo, Anki (phone app obviously), Wagotabi, etc.
Don’t think about it too hard! Just an estimate is fine. It’s only a school project.

And for fun let’s just maybe talk about which phone apps have helped us the most?
I’m busy as heck all the time so my studies have been going extremely slow, but what actually helped me feel as if Hiragana/Katakana wasn’t completely impossible was Wagotabi!
I tried so many things over the past few years (which were mostly false starts tbf) but something about Wagotabi actually made me learn Hiragana/Katakana.
I guess it’s probably that it actually forced me to read instead of looking at a boring table that I had to memorize.
Aside from that I’ve been (trying) to use Satori Reader every so often and it’s helped my reading speed a lot!

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zero hours :rofl:

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Anki I guess about 20-30 min a day, so roughly 3.5 hrs i guess. not including lookups on phone dictionaries, deepl/gtranslating annoying sentences to pick apart and using my phone as a virtual notepad to write down annoying kanji

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Do you only want data for phone apps? Or any device apps? For example iPad apps?

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That’s your choice!
My definition would be, if it is able to function on a phone with a dedicated app then it counts.
My experience with iPads (which is very limited) is that most, if not all, apps that function on them also function on iPhones, so I would count them.

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Specifically phone apps is 0 these days and probably peaked at like 0.5 hours. Figures for web apps were much higher

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This is a valid answer!

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I’m excluding WaniKani because it’s a website, not an app and I tend to use it on my laptop more than on my phone.

The only app I use is Pimsleur- about 4/7 hours a week. Let’s say that’s about 5 hours a week as an average.

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I use WK, mostly on my phone and SatoriReader 50/50 but both from a browser and not an app,
so zero hours per week.

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I set my phone to Japanese so I use all my apps to study. If you count all the time I’m on the phone as study time this is about 28 hours per week.

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oh, to clarify, i use my computer for studying, not that i don’t study at all :sweat_smile:

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Phone: Makoto for reading and quizzes, ReWord for vocab, Japanese! for kana drill, Kanji Dojo from time to time. 3-5 hours a week.
Web: Wanikani, Irodori, thejapanesepage, together also around 5hrs
Textbooks: Genki, Minna no nihongo, another 3hrs
Watching anime: 20-30 hrs per week (not joking)

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Zero hours, somehow :sweat_smile:
Even when away from computer, I just stab at JPDB backlog (and it’s in a browser)

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I do the majority of my reviews on my phone, so probably like 3 hours a week.

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I do all my reviews on a desktop computer though some of it is done on mobile because I am at work.

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2-3 hours per week. Most of that is with Mango Languages, which I do while walking (1-2 hours). I also use Ringotan every day. I try to avoid reviews (WaniKani/BunPro/Anki) on the phone but sometimes I have to if I’m away from my computer. I also occasionally listen to podcasts or use the Genki app.

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