Probably only an hour or two “studying”, but I confess I’ve been playing Stardew Valley in Japanese pretty much all weekend lately, what with quarantine and bad weather. In my opinion it’s better to find something fun that you actually want to pour a million hours into.
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So far about 30 minutes a day. Its frustrating because I can speak well but never learned may kanji growing up. I did Heisig for a couple of years then learned a lot being back in Japan on business, but it only took a few years to forget a lot of kanji, so I am starting over with level one. Some of the yomi I know aren’t what WaniKani wants. But I am “gaman” and doing it their way. I rotate between Japanese, Russian (review), Spanish, Italian, and Norwegian, with plans to add Croatian and Polish.
There are some, I highly recommend “Japanese from zero” online free courses and “Japanese with Misa”.
You can find them in YouTube and start from zero.
But the best one I’ve find so far is “Kira Sensei’s online course” who is a teacher living in Japan and he reviews the fist 2 Minanonihongo books.
He’s from Spain and, unfortunately, the content is in Spanish.
Hope this helps and I wish you success!
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Awesome. I can practice my Spanish at the same time. Especially since the Spanish dialect is harder for me.
Edit: The subtitles on this one are hilarious: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLTGkvBEtlNP0pn1bEtOre7R5IoofRzPTI 
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About 1/3rd of my productive hours this week, or ~50 minutes a day according to Toggl.
I’ll be getting more writing practice on KanjiStudy using the WaniKani sets posted here and maybe start working on Genki soon too. Fitting all of that in will probably need closer to two hours per day. Like others here I’m also suffering from some drawing ambitions that I can’t seem to follow through on.
Checking my recorded hours each week has been a good reality check and motivator.
The time I feel like, I need to keep this casual otherwise I’ll burn out. For stuff that requires lots of study I have university already xD
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Come on over!!
This will probably change soon, but normally I do:
WaniKani — 30mins in the morning, 45min in the evening (w/ lessons), 10-15 mins at night
Kamesame —50 reviews including handwriting, takes around 15 mins
Genki — One section a day, normally 30~ mins
Read NHK Easy News — Around 10 mins to read multiple times, understand (enough) and check on DeepL
Book Club — 5 mins
Online Genki exercises — Recent addition, doing one (previous) chapter takes 30-45 mins
Immersion — 30-45mins podcast or YouTube
Memrise if time but now I usually end up not doing any
Vocab Lists — 30~ mins Revise two or three handwritten flash card decks I made a while back.
So altogether, at least…
I’m scared to calculate this. I can’t be spending this much time doing Japanese can I? Anyway, I’ll have a few hours less to spare in around two weeks 
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Wow, I thought I spent a lot of time on Japanese until I read some of the more extreme replies. 
I spend the majority of my time on Wanikani (about 1 hour a day), with maybe another hour spent on other resources (Kamesame, Torii, Anki, etc.).
I’ve fallen out of my usual habit of reading through one lesson of Genki I a day, so I’m going to attempt to fit that back into my routine. It’s frustrating to know so little grammar at this stage, so I’ll definitely try to cultivate some motivation for it!
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Hopefully soon. 
Really wish to visit my family and relatives.
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- I spend about 0-40 minutes on WaniKani per day
- Now that it’s winter and I’m taking the bus & train everyday, I usually spend about 20-50 minutes per day on grammar/vocabulary practice during my commute.
- And then I spend about 5-20 minutes listening to audio samples, depending on the day
- But also, my family is Japanese, so I hear them speaking it quite a bit, haha.
Me too!!! Opposite way but I want to see my family.
That heat map script is pretty neat. Especially when I look at how long I’ve spent in reviews (499hr 15 min!). I spend an average of 3-4 hours a day “dedicated” to Japanese.
30 min morning doing WK reviews & lessons
~15 min doing WK lunch/afternoon reviews
~15 min reading/listening to NHK newseasy
~15 min doing Bunpro reviews & lessons
30 min doing WK evening reviews
~60 min watching anime
~30 min reading manga before bed
I’ve found a good rhythm sticking to 10 lessons a day. Also the Jakeipuu app has been very helpful since it can play audio for the example sentences for vocab.
i’ve been doing about 2-3 hours of active study a day, spread over various ressources, as long as my health allows. currently more like 2 hours than 3, because it is winter and ski-season, and i spend all my available daylight hours on the slopes ^^
add to that whatever japanese media i consume, which can vary wildly, between weeks without any at all and binging a whole catalog of anime at once. recently i also switched stardew valley to japanese ^^
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