For level-up? I was doing all of them up to the new radicals at once (then spreading everything else out), but as of level 10 I’m doing about 18 vocab per day (takes 2 days) then radicals, then kanji. So my first set of lessons takes four days.
I do about 10 lessons a day, and when I get to radicals I try and do them all in a day over two sessions.
It depends though- if I’m getting vocab where the readings are easy and the same as the one I learnt for the kanji, I tend to do more than 10. And if I’m having a crappy or busy day, I might only do 5 or gasp none.
I finish all vocab from last level and do all the radicals, if I do that in the morning, I will do ten kanji at night and the rest next morning; if I do radicals at night I will try to do the kanji next morning, or split it in two parts (one in the morning and one at night).
So basically, I do all pending vocab from last level and radicals from the newly unlocked level, regardless of the amount, as I don’t find vocab nor radicals too heavy to study. I do kanji according to the time of the day and how hard I find the lessons, if I stop paying attention then I just stop and continue next day.
I find a quiet 1 to 2 hours and do them all at once like a maniac. I also write out all the kanji with their readings and mnemonics on paper which I reread in between srs reviews while they’re going through apprentice level. I understand this isn’t for everyone because of the avalanche of reviews. I average 200 reviews per day, maybe more but I have plenty of time. I space them out using the ultimate timeline script.
I highly recommend writing out readings and mnemonics that don’t stick and all of the pink kanji lessons. I see mnemonics as a newer “right brain” method whereas writing and rote memorisation is the old-fashioned “left brain” method. I think rote memorisation and writing were crap on their own, however, coupled WITH mnemonics I think they have a synergistic effect that’s also better than just mnemonics alone.
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