I think if you use something like Yomichan in combination with something like Goo (online dictionary), it’s also good vocab mining practice 
. And if you manage to break down unknown words into basic components you know already, you can leverage that and then it just gets easier 
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Depending on how many times you get it wrong within one review session:
- 0 times => goes to Enlightened
- 1 time => stays Master
- 2 or 3 times => goes to Guru 1
- 4 or 5 times => goes to Apprentice 3
- 6 or more times => goes to Apprentice 1
(If I’m reading the formula correctly.)
You are reading it much more correctly than I can! 
Thank you ChristopherFritz!!!
Doubt I’ll be coming back to the POLL thread if that Logograph person is hanging around. Not a fan. Just wanted you to know 
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Although I haven’t used it to see how it works, you can open someone’s profile (select their name to open their card, then select their name on that to open their profile), and set them as Ignored:
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Does that mean they can’t see my posts too? Because I’d happily do that! 
I imagine they’d still see your posts, but if they reply to your posts you won’t get notified, and their reply would show as “hidden content” the next time you went to the thread where they replied. (But I’ve not used the feature, so this is just speculation.)
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Hmmm okay. I just don’t think there’s any place for a person like that in a solely social thread. I came in with a light heart and they wanted to get into it… Very bizarre. Attacking a greenhorn with a big ego, if you ask me 
Done! Muted and blocked so to speak. Makes me feel better. Thanks ChristopherFritz!
PS. Can I just shorten your name somehow?? 
I like to address people in my posts but your name is long to type out!!! 
Super normal! It is going to feel a little bit mysterious. One is that the grammar is so different from English, and the other is that lots of people (including, from what I’ve gathered, you) don’t have the best explicit grasp on the grammar in their native language, so there’s a side bunch of learning of grammar terms and what those means etc. Linguists talk about Left-Branching and Right-Branching languages as part of how they explain the difference between Japanese and English sentence structure - but if you’re not a linguist, it’s added (not strictly necessary) study to understand that, and not a short-cut (It was a shortcut for me - I was a linguistics major as an undergrad).
For me, it works to go ahead to new lessons as long as I have a vague understanding of the previous point, and then to come back to those points once I’ve had more exposure. @ChristopherFritz mentioned pattern matching, and brains are great at that! Exposing yourself to a bunch of grammar points can give your brain a bit of info about what to try to pattern match, even if it’s just to find instances of that pattern to collect more info about what the pattern means.
I liked MNN for lots of things - repetitive practice of structures, really step by step building of grammar knowledge etc, but I was frequently supplementing with just reading up on structures that I ran into while reading, over, and over, and over (I think I read the same quick explanation of そうに like 5 times in the same day once when I was reading - because I kept seeing it, and not quite understanding how what I remembered from the last look up made sense - I learned a lot, and my brain has definitely improved at that pattern, but technically I still haven’t reached it in the textbook).
Obviously up to your comfort level, but I wouldn’t be afraid to go on to future Cure Dolly lessons to get some more info about different structures, and come back to lesson 6 again later.
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Although my name can be shorted to “Chris”, some people have been known to go the much longer route and call me “Hey, who are you, what are you doing in my house, and why are you reading my manga?!”
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Well other than my natural understanding of how to write and speak, I was a very poor grammar student!
Hmm well I was a linguistics FAIL as an undergrad! So cutting it down for me to the very basics is probably what I need? I don’t know… I can tell by Cure Dolly’s explanation that Japanese is a very well structured language, I just can’t put my finger on how it is that way, just quite yet.
Yes, I think part of my problem is taking way too many notes, that turns 6 minutes of an 8 minute video into an hour+ long experience. If I just allow myself to listen it might help. I really do like her visuals, though, which is why I pause a lot and take notes…
Well, at this point, I need a lot of basics. So perhaps MNN is good for me right now. If I run up against the issue you are talking about I should probably look elsewhere too. Bunpro seems like a great website, but it’s too advanced for me at my level. I feel like I get things “right” just because I remember the right answer, not because I understand the content… And I don’t like that. Their grammar points are referential, not educational, so it’s really not for me at my level.
Yes I think I’m going to go back through 1-6 soon, but for now I’ve only really had the strength to get through my reviews and attempting to read よつばと! every day. I like that I am not failing to do so, but I know I need to add something more grammar wise. I should try my brand new MNN books tomorrow.
Thank you Nishi790!!! This was very helpful in my thinking
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HAHAHAHHAH!
I was thinking something like CF, but perhaps acronyms are not your thing 
I appear as CF in a lot of work meetings, so I’m used to that as well =D
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Okay well don’t be offended if I call you CF from time to time. I’m a very formal person, but with the amount of activity going on here sometimes I like to abbreviate things
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You could use text expander and have CF translate to
Very formal. Very quick. 
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I think I’m too tired and “text expander” just went over my head. It’s why I call you sleepy from time to time 
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Text expander is a program that lets you assign long strings of text to short strings of text, so that every time you type the short string it is automatically replaced with the long string.
I’m fine with being sleepy 
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Oh wow! That sounds very useful! Tell me more about it tomorrow, I am exhausted and I just ended up putting the poll thread on mute because I’ve realized the ilk that linger in there. Not too impressed with the community at the moment 
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Eh, poll is usually harmless fun. But you’ll find bad eggs in any basket that gets big enough (or something). But do what’s right for you, obviously that escalated in a weird way so I understand your reaction
Good night tho, see you tomorrow~
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