Learning Japanese in 2 years is quite a task! Good luck!
Remember to have fun learning =]
Also welcome to Wanikani!
Learning Japanese in 2 years is quite a task! Good luck!
Remember to have fun learning =]
Also welcome to Wanikani!
Exciting! Good luck on your journey!
Is your goal to be fluent at a near native level or to be able to have everyday conversations with native speakers and understand most Japanese native content (in topics that aren’t too advanced)? Do you have a specific JLPT-level goal aswell?
Thanks!! I initially set my 2 year goal based only on WaniKani, though I’ve looked at a Genki chapter preview and that also seems to take a lot of work, so I’m not too sure now x_x (when I learned Mandarin, grammar was the easiest part of learning it and I thought it would be the same for Japanese, but thinking back on it grammar in Mandarin is extremely simple, almost caveman-like lol)
I’ll at least try to get to a conversational level in that time, though!!
My end goal is to speak at a near-native level, so I guess JLPT N1?
An ambitious goal! I wish you all the best on your journey! Learning Japanese is challenging and so much fun, like deciphering a code!
Oh, you’ll definitely get to conversational in 2 years! Near Native will be a real challenge, but I’d love to see it happen!
I’ve been working with Genki too, I love those books, but (at least for me) it takes a lot of time.
February 9, 2021 (was planning to post this at the end of the day, but I was sleepy and decided to post it today - I’ll probably keep on doing that, posting a day’s entry the day after)
February 10, 2021
February 11, 2021
No work on Japanese today. A few things happened and I wasn’t feeling emotionally well, so I decided to take a break for today. (Don’t worry, though - it wasn’t too big of a deal, and everything’s sorted out now!)
February 12, 2021
So uh, this was a bit interesting. I thought you had to level up both the kanji and the vocabulary of a level to Guru to unlock the next level, but apparently you only need to level up the kanji - I worked on 20 vocabulary words this day (and will level them up to Guru today) and was planning to work on 20 more today to level up tomorrow, but now I’m drowning in lessons. Also, holy hell does level 2 have a lot of kanji.
Ah, this looks exciting! And relatable!
Good luck on your journey!
頑張ってくださいね!
February 13, 2021
This day wasn’t as productive as I would’ve liked it to be - I stayed over at my sister’s house for most of the day, so I didn’t have much time to work on my Japanese.
February 14 and 15, 2021
Was going to make the February 14 entry yesterday, but by the time I remembered I had already done some stuff on WaniKani, so I decided to combine the two days’ entries into one
February 16, 2021
Installed a review timeline script to organize my WaniKani reviews, doing better with them now. Also forgot to do the listening practice again x_x
Otherwise not much else to say, will probably take a small break from WaniKani lessons after I finish the level 2 kanji to learn how to write hiragana and katakana (for KameSame)
February 17, 2021
Yup, there are scripts that let you reorder lessons to learn radicals and kanji first to get the SRS rolling so you can space out the vocabulary lessons while you’re waiting. That way you can progress faster without clumping your studies into bursts of 60+ lessons every 3 1/2 days.
February 18 and 19, 2021
Finished level 2 kanji, started level 2 vocab. Send help.
Yeah, that’s what I’m doing lol (not using a script though, just keeping track of the lessons myself - mostly 20 everyday, sometimes 10 or 30)
What I’m getting at is that when you unlock new radicals or kanji without scripts, Wanikani gives you vocab lessons that contain kanji you already have at guru, then after you finish all of those it finally let’s you complete lessons for the newly unlocked radicals and kanji. So if you’re doing ~20 lessons each day, you’d spend ~3 days on vocab, then 3.5 days waiting for radicals to guru because of SRS, then ~3 days on vocab and another 3.5 waiting for the Kanji SRS to reach guru.
With a script you can complete the radical and kanji lessons first to double your speed without increasing your lesson workload on any given day, by cutting out the days where you wouldn’t have had any lessons available anyway. I just figured you may be interested since you mentioned a timed goal.
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