If the 3DS is on the correct firmware, there is always the possibility to let it run Homebrew, which should allow one to bypass the RegionLock too.
You did not linked the app, please do!
Thanks @all for sharing your routines, I will take here and there some of your habits, they are great!
Tell me more about this supernative, please.
update: oh mah gah i am hooked on supernative
Listen to tv clips from Japan and transcribe the missing audio. Forces you to listen out for every syllable.
Konichiwa minna san, I have just recently started studying Japanese. I have finished reading all Hiragana and Katakana. I take a little time to decipher each character but still I can read now.
The problem with me now is Kanji. Im starting with Radicals, and each radical has like Onyomi and Kunyomi.
How should I study them? Do I have to learn both On and Kun? for example. “Person” in On is “jin”, and in kun its “Hito”… Now what am I supposed to do? Im stuck with radicals. Please guide me.
Most of the posted routines seem to be totally time consuming and intensive… I wonder how can you keep the pace with them, especially in the long run.
My original daily plan also included:
I did some of these for the first one and half month but recently I found out to be exhausted after work and I could not keep the pace or I ended up forgetting too often to do my Anki reviews, so I am in a need of an alternative way to keep pushing the grammar I miss from the N4. Before I jump into Tobira for the intermediate.
If someone knows a cheesy software/web/app OF QUALITY which teaches all grammar before intermediate and has a friendly interface such as Duolingo I would love to give it a try because I seem to fail too much keeping the consistency with the grammar and Anki …
@idiomargot How is that lingodeer? Does it properly cover N5 and N4 so I could jump onto an N3 book afterwards?
My foremost interest with Japanese is the music as it’s been since day one. 
and now games too
Right now the only thing I’m doing is wanikani and Japanese games
WaniKani gives you radicals, which are the building blocks that make up kanji. Each radical has one name in English. After doing radical lessons, you review them multiple times. After you “guru” the radicals (get them correct enough times), you unlock lessons for kanji. The kanji lessons will give you a reading; for example, the kanji 人 is given the readings にん and じん. After you guru the kanji, you get related vocabulary words.
This information and more is explained in-depth in the guide and FAQ of WaniKani, so I urge you to check there if you have any more questions. If you can’t find an answer in either one of those places, you can also use the search button on the forums.
My routine isn’t what I’d like it to be as of now, but it’s a good enough foundation that I’m learning at a steady pace.
Every morning I go through Bunpro, Memrise, KaniWani, and WaniKani reviews, in that order. I usually check WaniKani during a break and in the afternoon, as I want to increase my leveling speed (which is about once a month, if not longer).
In addition to this, I have been reading through some manga I’ve picked up over the years or an NHK easy and it’s “adult” counterpart to get some immersive reading in (I don’t look up any words) during breaks, and if I have the time/energy/motivation (aka almost never) I work on one of my textbooks or go through one of the Nihongo no Mori JLPT grammar videos.
At some point, I’d really like to get in some more native material, like a TV show, but I’m not really a TV person to begin with so it’s difficult.
My routine used to be
It was great. I’ve never been so disciplined in my life.
Now my routine has turned into shit. I basically just read some news everyday and randomly look up words and grammar. Maybe this is the intermediacy swamp I’ve heard so much about.
My secret is that I have no relationship or kids to worry about and I work night shift three times a week. I’m kind of obsessed…
Lingodeer is really basic so far. I’m only using it out of curiosity, I found it on https://www.jsourcedb.com/ Grammar, in general, is a topic that is beginning to niggle my soul. I can’t find a resource that I enjoy using. People rave about bunpro but I don’t enjoy it. I don’t understand why either because I enjoy all the other SRS things I use. I really enjoy the way things like duolingo and lingodeer work but they only cover the early stages of the language. It’s like they assume we’ll all give up after that point or we only want enough Japanese to go on holiday… Is everyone here the same as me in that you want to be able to watch a film without subtitles, express your views on life, tell stories etc? Or to put it more simply, be as good as this guy
I disliked BunPro when I was trying to do all the readings it linked to, but I picked up steam once I started ignoring the readings and just trying to figure out what was going on from the examples. That clicked in my brain better somehow and made it feel much less like a chore. I’d also cross-reference with that Genki verb conjugation app, which helped. (A lot of the BunPro concepts build off a verb form covered there).
And I’ve noticed that too, about most resources seemingly stopping before intermediate level. I’m like 3/4 of the way through Mango Languages’ Japanese offerings, and was wondering what to do for speaking/listening after it’s done. SuperNative seems like the perfect thing to fill that gap (though sadly I won’t be able to just play it when I’m in the shower lol)
suddenly my daily routine seems normal …
I’m a bit like that as well. When I got into something I enjoy I fill most of my day with it… then when able to unconsciously and without much effort be able to use it… I slow down. I did it with music years before, which felt mostly the same, theory, playing, listening… hours of practicing boring scales. Japanese still feels like practicing scales right now …
I was about to start with Genki 2 next month, but I’m seriously considering changing that for more immersion time, and relying on the Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar, which has proven far better than any other tool for clearing up grammar points.
I prefer Azumanga Daioh. It’s more adult than that, doesn’t have furigana (suffer!!) and its from the same author.
Can you describe what you mean by this?
(I’m working on language tools, so it’s interesting learning what does/doesn’t work for people, and what tools they wish they had)
I feel your pain, I’m super obsessed about the language too and I want to reach that point where I can do all of that, right now it feels very far away .
I’m glad you guys are sharing your routines and resources so I can improve mine as well, thanks!
Totally agree with you! I am having trouble doing anything else besides Wanikani 
Thank you soo much. I was soo lost. This gave me the inspiration to learn it crisp and clear now
Now I am the point that I am looking for perhaps a smarter way to keep the progress of grammar and kanji at the same time… instead of doubling the bet on the daily routine… I am considering whether I should for example take periodic breaks of wanikani to intensively focus on grammar and viceversa, I am still thinking on how could it look like so I can still achieve level 35/40 by the end of the year and complete all N4+N3 materials I am missing.
(I do not think that first doing all kanji, and then doing all grammar the last months of the year is the best way, but perhaps it is not the worst idea)
Sure. In duolingo and lingodeer they have questions like fill in the missing piece or rearrage the sentece. So…
私は犬…大好きです。
が, に, を, で
or you are given a load of blocks like this
昨日, 行きませんでした, は, 彼, に, 学校
and you have to rearrange them
彼は昨日, 学校に行きませんでした
I found these kind of problems a lot of fun for the beginner stages of grammar. They were a welcome change for those times my brain was too tired to study in the traditional manner. The problem with bunpro although it is decent is that you’re always having to reproduce the grammar there’s nothing wrong with that in itself, it’s an important skill but so is being able to recognize individual components among a group of wrong answers.
I really don’t understand why duolingo doesn’t go any higher than I like dogs or do you do cosplay? It really p*** me off.