My Way of Japanese continues after a Corona break

kyouxren · April 22, 2022, 8:27pm

300 reviews

My goal for this weekend is to reach at most 200 reviews in the evening. Then I will ponder about a reading and grammar strategy.

kyouxren · April 23, 2022, 7:22pm

200 reviews
Weekend reviewing sprint.

Temporary goal: Having less than 200 reviews in the evening and not more than 200 on half a day. More or less arbitrary rule by curtesy of the timeline diagram

I also cheated once in a while to bring it down to 200 this weekend. But I think I used it in a responsible way based on my performance.
After the review load hopefully settles down in at most a week I plan to finally add again some lessons and take a shot at reading.
But don’t forget: Man proposes, God disposes! So stay tuned.

kyouxren · April 24, 2022, 9:10pm

0000000000000000 reviews

Finally, after a hard Wanikani Sunday I have a clean slate. I don’t have any dates Monday and Tuesday evening. So I should manage the workload the next two days.
And then: 頑張れ

kyouxren · April 27, 2022, 10:26pm

2332 lessons
Finally no review backlog anymore. Started with lessons.

Now I will also give reading a shot with stuff I like. Does anybody have a pointer where I can get a Japanese epub e.g. 盾の勇者の成り上がり, 魔法科高校の劣等生 or ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか?
English translations as a reference are sitting on my bookshelf

alo · April 27, 2022, 10:54pm

BookWalker.jp is probably your best best, although all their books have DRM and I’m not a huge fan of their reader. You can also try creating an account on Amazon Japan but that has a lot of hoops to jump through as well.

kyouxren · April 28, 2022, 8:23am

I made an account with Amazon Japan some years ago and after the hoops to jump even managed to get DanMachi#1. But now it’s lost in disk space
Afterthought: Wasn’t there some app called Kindle? Starting, having a look in the library and there it is: DanMachi#1

kyouxren · May 3, 2022, 9:44pm

2298 lessons

So far all according to plan.

VisitsFromTheIsnt · May 3, 2022, 10:24pm

Suggested music:

kyouxren · May 7, 2022, 8:32pm

2284 lessons
Currently all going according to plan. Slowly doing lessons. Daily review target <100. So if upcoming reviews for a day are below that I can do a couple of lessons.

You see, Sunday and Monday especially will be a challenge.
OTOH 100 reviews a day are fine. Leaves me some time for reading experiments. Still noch settled on reading materials and tool framework.

kyouxren · May 11, 2022, 8:52pm

2281 lessons
Looks like I didn’t take any lessons since last time. But no, a couple of vocabs were unlocked inbetween. You can see that a bunch moved from guru to master.

Limit considered whether doing lessons: 100 reviews next day. Additonal limit added: 1000 reviews the next two weeks. I hope the peaks will go down with time.

kyouxren · May 13, 2022, 7:49pm

2265 lessons
Admittedly not a big change from two days ago. But I had some new ideas.

I changed my timeline bars to SRS stages.
Apprentice 1 (4h), 2 (8h), 3 (1d), 4 (3d), Guru 1 (1w), 2 (2w), Master (1m), Enlightened (4m), Burned

So what does that mean? In about a week I will have a bunch of masters which mostly then will be gone for a month. So I decided to start with daily 5 lessons and see how it’s working out.

kyouxren · May 23, 2022, 10:01pm

2215 lessons
Doing still 5 lessons a day.
As you can see enlightenment is increasing

Standing before a big hurdle tomorrow: 212 reviews.

OTOH, the world will not end if I won’t succeed because of e.g. wife, children, work, Corona, …

kyouxren · May 24, 2022, 9:35pm

2210 lessons
Did it: More then 200 reviews today and about 120 more enlightened.

Next wave building up in two weeks.

kyouxren · May 27, 2022, 9:02am

2200 lessons

Relaxing week coming. Fine for working on a Wanikani Highlighting script.

kyouxren · June 5, 2022, 11:02am

2150 lessons
So ten days later: 10*5 lessons less.

For a while now I do 5 lessons a day and my 14 day workload goes about 1000 reviews. So this seems to be the correct dosage because that’s what I can manage.

OTOH this means still 2150/5 = 430 days to go until all lessons are gone. Which will still create a long backlog of reviews after that. Learning Japanese isn’t a 100m sprint

But I don’t care that much about that because I will start reading real soon now, which will give me the reviews to the kanji I really need.

kyouxren · June 15, 2022, 9:22pm

2100 lessons
Another ten days. A lot of the back log now is enlightened.

Workload is finally settling down to an I think leisurely pace.

Also tomorrow is a holiday. So I will take at least half a day for implementing my Wanikani Vocab Highlighter for future reading support.