Welcome @liamgjay! Glad to have you join the group. It’s really motivating, and the members have a ton of great advice and ideas!!
@sakaijin Thanks again for suggesting Kinokuniya. I just bought the first two volumes of “Is the Order a Rabbit” and “Yotsubato!” through the online store. Can’t wait to tackle them this year!
@Meeks33 No problem! It is difficult to retain the Genki vocabulary by just drilling the list without an SRS component, but physically moving a translation to the corresponding word on the site is a little more helpful. What did people do before all of this technology? lol
Oh boy, today was brutal :'D
WaniKani burns came in, Bunpro and Jalup reviews are coming in hard because I rushed grammar for a while and the new Jalup cards were pretty hard on me today too. Gonna have to slow down even more if I don’t want to get overwhelmed once the holidays are over.
Here’s to hoping I don’t get bored with the slow grammar progress.
Anyone feel like complaining with me so I don’t feel so bad?
Ooh, I can definitely relate to that! I was super high in motivation in october-november period and rushed new material, which has come back to bite me during the holiday season
In the last few weeks the high reviews were very draining so I lowered the amount of new content I study wayyy down and even that felt rough. I do think I have finally gotten through the worst of it but it has been frustrating because it feels like I’m not moving forward much.
I think I’m about ready to pick up the pace a little again - hopefully I dont overdo it this time though
This is also me right now! I have been trying to slow things down to get SRS back to manageable levels but it’s so tempting to just add more now because I have the time and want to move faster but I’m back to work very soon so would definitely regret it!
I’m with you. I hit a point where I was doing 6 day work weeks, and then multiple Christmas celebrations and such, and I just never could get out of bed and was like 3-4 hours late on my review times. And then I still have my normal schoolwork to do!
Slowed down to 10 Jalup/15 WK/10 Kitsun a day and it’s helped a ton with being able to do everything else on my plate!
As for the slow grammar, you’re almost done with Jalup Beginner, right? Should be able to do some reading and help make that grammar part a bit more fun.
Yes, Kinokuniya!! Also for those who live in California or travel there under normal circumstances, there are a BUNCH of BOOKOFF locations (my fav in Gardena! But my husband and I literally drove all around last time we were in CA to ALL the SoCal Bookoff locations as well as the LA and Santa Monica Kinokuniya stores just to media mail as many books home as we could afford on our budget). We live closest to the Chicago Kinokuniya (still several hours away from us) and have been wanting to go there when we get a chance… hopefully 2021/2022…
Also just noticed there’s one BOOKOFF in NYC, too.
That’s what I thought, but the last 250 cards are rough on me !
It’s all N4/N3 grammar and some of them are taking me quite a bit of reading time to understand properly. I’m gonna try slowing down to 5 Cards/Day and see how it feels
Could I join in? I’ll join in. You guys can perhaps remove me if you want, but I took a REALLY LONG hiatus with WaniKani with burnout with so many reviews and difficulties with how quickly I was trying to do WaniKani. I finally got Lifetime which is amazing. Right now, I am on a Lessons hiatus because there are going to be 200 and possibly 800 reviews that hit me at once. I had to go from Level 21 back to Level 17 so I can calm down and get better with these lower level Kanjis and Radicals before progressing even more.
Perhaps you guys wanting to catch up to me may encourage you? I don’t know. Between the last time I had WK and this time, I got a new laptop meaning I lost all of my old leaderboards.
I wish you guys the best of luck. I saw quite a bit of people I remembered from like a year ago just stop with WaniKani entirely for a while just like I did, but have not seem to have resumed. Remember you’re studying Japanese and its Kanji (with vocab) because you have some special interest/connection with it. Learning Japanese should be worth your time.
Can anyone recommend some SRS applications to me? Currently, I’m using bunpro and memrise. I’m trying to get into Anki but i don’t find myself having much motivation to do anki reviews but I still feel like it’s the best option? Which in your opinion are the best english to japanese and vocab applications out there?
I absolutely love using Torii for vocab, it’s a 10k list with SRS like WK. It even has an option to avoid all the Wanikani vocab you’ve learned already.
I also just found out about Lapis. I haven’t taken a big look yet, but it looks cool
@ZeisTube Hey Zeistube, I will second Torii SRS. I wrote about it recently in this thread. It’s a WaniKani clone for the core 10k vocabulary. I like it a lot. You can choose EN>JP, JP>EN, or you can do both recognition and production in reviews. I recommend KameSame if you are interested in Kanji production of your WaniKani items. KS has a lot more features, but I won’t discuss them here since I talked about them extensively on this thread before lol.
I wouldn’t recommend more than three SRS at one time. My job is remote and very part time right now so I feel comfortable handling the three I am currently using. I dropped BunPro in favor of Genki partly because I was overkilling SRS. You will still want to fit in time for reading and listening. The SRS is there to help that along.
If I ever learn another language I may need to use Anki, but there is just so much in terms of SRS available for Japanese that is so much more visually appealing, and in some ways more intuitive.
Just casually coming in to say that Anki is the most amazing thing to ever be created by mankind. Probably. I used Anki even before I started studying Japanese and once you get used to it, it’s the best thing I know of for creating and studying your own cards.
Personally I don’t think it’s worth paying $$ if it’s only for the prettier GUI.
@ZeisTube Gonna second that. Done it before, won’t do it again. Too many SRS systems kind of sucked the fun out of Japanese for me. For now I’d rather go faster on the systems I’m already using instead of adding even more of them.
Waiting until you’ve finished one before you pick up another is definitely worth considering.
Ha! This is great. Honestly, SRSing grammar just didn’t do it for me. I am using the physical book and the Genki website to do all the exercises and the workbook. I am encouraged to do a lot more reading and the grammar explanations are more appropriate for my level, and the book is cumulative so it’s building off what was last taught. I know BunPro has the Genki track but all of the resources available can become a little overwhelming. It’s like the illusion of choice or something like that lol.
@GrumpyPanda Ahh, my friend, Torii SRS and KameSame are free applications! Although, full disclosure, I give a little to the KS dev on Patreon each month and I paid a modest voluntary Lifetime Membership fee to ToriiSRS cause he said he needed coffee. Anki is powerful, and I probably haven’t realized it’s full potential in my study, so I may go back to it at some point in the future when I am really customizing my SRS study, but for the money, having WK and the others layout a fully realized learning program is just so invaluable to me, and not to mention all duh pwetty colors!!
I just had to post that the Tofugu store is having a huge sale because they are going fully remote this year, and their “Particles in Action” e-book and “4500 Japanese Sentences” are something on the magnitude of 90% off. the Sentence PDF is usually 40 bucks, and it’s on sale for 5, and the particle e-book is 3 bucks. I just wanted to let the group know if that was something you had your eye on in the past and didn’t like the price tag (like myself).
I’m not a sticker person, but I might grab some of those too lol.
