^^^^ SAAAME!!! I’m just doing reviews for a good while. That’s the right approach. I mega overserved myself from the Bunpro lessons heap…lol… #godcomplex <<< just kidding, but I seriously feel like the thrill of learning new grammar items is addictive because of how much reading power it confers.
Have you been reading at all? I fell behind on my reading too. But! I can still say this:
I"M STILL DOING WK REVIEWS YAYYY.
When I first started off I just rushed right through them as I passed N5 and N4 years ago I wanted to just focus more on N3. I deeply regret rushing through grammar now. 
I learnt the hard way with my sensei, she has a huge amount of N1 students and they just can’t speak simple Japanese and she finds they don’t seem to know basic grammar - and course they want to learn N1 grammar making it difficult for her.
I had a few days where I couldn’t read as I was too busy but I managed to read Case Closed yesterday! 
I’m now reading volume 11 so I’m pretty proud of myself. 
It doesn’t help I’ve got too many hobbies… I’m practising keyboard as well as drawing.
Whoa. This tells me that I may need to take an in-person course at my local university after all… 
But (after all), I wanted to do that very much, only didn’t because I felt that I didn’t have enough background to begin, (((AND IT COSTS MONEYYYYYY))) and I was not sure that I could do justice to the class…maybe I would fail at studying enough…
It’s almost weird that it’s so many N1 students rather than some lower level, yet I think this might be a result of the proliferation of “Easy Japanese ™” available online and in print format. I mean, I have to say that, despite evidence of some admittedly substantial efforts to the contrary, honest and intelligent people are absolutely nonetheless being mostly unintentionally misled by authors, devs, and entrepreneurs as to the attainability of the task of learning ye olde Nihongo. It’s just not as easy as people insist that it is. I mean, even despite the evident impossibility of it on the face of it, people are being encouraged to jump headlong into it and end up investing huge swaths of time money and life energy on it without necessarily there being a substantial possibility of fulfillment.
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I say all this after just now clearing 36 Bunpro reviews at an 85% success rate after literally days of no study, though, so I really ought to shut my mouth about what’s impossible and what’s possible as my argument has almost nothing to stand on. I mean, I guess I’m sort of committed to continue despite how much time and energy and money it’s taking…but some part of me says, “Hey didn’t you initially think this was impossible? Wasn’t there something more readily consumable and with a bigger payoff than trying to learn Japanese?” I think that the other candidates (basic electronics, Python, pedal steel, gardening, raising chickens) are a lot more investment in different ways, and the failure cost is higher. Except with Python, probably, but I feel that “functionally flunking out of college in Computer Science” qualifies as some kind of failure cost on my learning to program.
In conclusion, I still feel strongly that overall learning Japanese to the best of my ability is a pastime that I can enjoy with less problematicity. Yes, that’s not a word.
Good for you!!! Wonderful!!! <3 <3 <3
Excellent!!! MEEEETOOOOOOOO #awesome
I did my today’s lessons in WK, and I did my reviews in WK and Bunpro down to zero.
Yay me.
No reading though, which is not-yay me. Maybe I’ll read now…but what I really want to do is play something with mahjong tiles with my wife, because of a TikTok Live.
Not tiles so…reading it is!!!
Read one mini-booklet!
(((Tried to read more Battle Angel Alita but got pretty discouraged so I actually put it back on the shelf for now. Maybe in a month or after a few more months!)))
I think most of it is some people rush as they need to get into University or something like that and got a time limit. In my case I was so focused on getting N3 and I spent so long learning I ended up forgetting some old grammar points. 
A problem I have is I can read and recognise but my output is dreadful. It’s something I neglected, because of my extreme shyness I only really got to speaking and writing 3 years ago, so I’m still a newbie really!
Don’t worry with reading! The best bit for me is when I return and find it’s easier. 
I still got my book I’ve had over a year, I will read it maybe finishing wanikani but I know it’ll be so much easier. Sometimes I just write notes on unknown words and come back to it and just think “oh I know that now!”.
I had a rough few days (neighbour) and been very stressed so I haven’t been able to do any new lessons… I’m doing reviews but hope to get back today…
I love playing mahjong solitaire. 
It looks like your up to level 4 now! Almost level 5!!! For that you can have more cats and strawberries! 
That makes sense. I’m trying (and failing) to take 15 lessons a day partly because I’m concerned about losing the early burns if I take too long to learn the kanji. But yeah, having a rush on learning is rough too. I would really like to take a university Japanese course, but I’m scared that the pace will be too fast for me to keep up with.
Yay I got to level 5! Or at least, that’s what it says. Thank you for the strawberries and cute cat!!! <3
Congratulations on your continued progress with learning! I’m inspired that you actually have a teacher. That must help a lot! And it’s so brave to speak and write – that takes guts! <3 <3 <3
Are you able to have online lesson? That’s all I’m having, I’ve only started about 3 years ago now, I struggled because of my shyness but I’ve got used to my teacher after a few lessons and I enjoy having a chat. Mine isn’t very expensive (something like $5?), I don’t tend to find expensive ones are better - I’ve actually found the most expensive one I tried was the worst!
The main thing I noticed I’m more confident in talking to Japanese. I think that’s the main thing for me because of my shyness.
If you have 1-1 lesson then the teacher will have to go at your pace. 
I don’t think I can do a class room environment, I need to feel relaxed to learn, I don’t think I can with other people and rushing… plus I feel really stupid if I do a mistake because I’m nervous.
Congrats for the big 5! Next aim is to heard towards 10!! You can do it! 
I also found this site with different sounds, you were asking about music before so I wondered if it’s any help?
Thank you so much for the congratulations strawberries on level 5 
I took a bit of a break from lessons (while still doing all my reviews) but I think I’m ready to start doing lessons again! After Trunklayer made it to level 60 it’s hard to resist doing lessons and trying my best to follow through!
Ahhh awesome!!! This will be perfect when those big bunches of reviews come in….
Yay, I’m so glad to hear it! Best of luck with your studies! 
Also, don’t forget that the Lesson Picker can be used not only for picking the lessons you want to take first, but also for specifying exactly how much lessons you want. If on some days you would feel that 10 lessons is still too much, you can use the Lesson Picker to pick just a few lessons! 
Thank you!!! That’s a great tip! 
Glad you’re still going!
Sorry I’ve been away for a time… I’m going through an extremely hard time so I haven’t been on so much… I’m still studying what I can with no pressure, I’m still aiming for that big 60!
On a good note I’ve got the newest Famicom detective game and I noticed I can read it so much better than when I played the previous games so it really made me happy that I have improved!
Strawberries and cats for you → 
Hi!!! Sorry you’re going through a rough patch lately. I hope things get better very soon.
Congratulations on the reading improvement! That must feel so good!
I’m just plugging along on my lessons and reviews. I’ve also been listening to Nihongo Con Teppei for the past couple of days. It always amazes me that I can understand anything he says!
You may already have shared this with me but I can’t remember - what have you used to help you with grammar??
It’s something extremely big for me and still really affecting me so it made me unable to study for a bit… I was just doing reviews as the extreme minimum of studying but I’m pushing myself now and trying to aim for the big 60!
Oh I Nihongo Con Teppei! I was listening to that for quite a while but I haven’t been listening lately… I really enjoyed listening to it! It shows how much you’ve improved where you can understand what he’s saying - so good job!!!
Ah grammar, grammar, grammar… my arch enemy. I say grammar is my worst thing in Japanese (make that English as well XD;;).
Things I have found helpful though → My sensei who seems specialised in grammar and does her own worksheets, writing a diary with a teacher to correct it - this way I can try using grammar and see it in play with corrections also I physically write down the corrected diary so that’s forcing me to take more note of grammar! , reading - great way to see grammar being used when I see it multiple times it’s just naturally finally gets into my head! Also reading out and hearing it helps!
What works for me looks like it’s just repetition and just expose myself with reading, listening and writing. 
I don’t know if this helps, it’s really takes ages to figure what works for you - before I was too chicken to write a diary though I’m not doing it everyday maybe every 2 weeks but I’m finding it very helpful writing down the corrected version!
I’m sorry you’ve been going through significant difficulties recently. I’m thinking of you! And I wish you success in everything you do and of course especially with your studies and your kanji learning!! You’re so close to level 60!!! It’s amazing!!!
It’s great that you have a teacher too! That must really be helping!
Have you read a book or manga yet? Any recommendations??
Thank you! I had actually had two deaths in the family and so much things just kept piling on me so it really affected my mental health. 
I’m so happy to reached 56 now, it’s been a long time but it’s been a wonderful long journey for me!
I’ve been reading 名探偵コナン (Case Closed) and got up to volume 11. I have slowed down now as I’m playing the newest Famicom Detective Club and I’m reading 君の名は which is far from easy! I’m actually reading with a teacher and was told that it was difficult even for natives, one Japanese looked at it and said they would describe it as hard not intimidate level though I still hope to read what I can - luckily I had watched the film before attempting it!
I also had signed up on Lingq and just read and listen what I could for free. I find it helpful to listen while reading! I’ve stopped it now though as I was going everyday but it stopped my streak and personally for me I find streaks extremely demotivating when they get reset to 0 just because I was an hour later than usual.
I had managed to find my Chi’s sweet home manga books the other day so I’m planning on re-reading them as it’s been years since I read them!
はじめまして 
I was searching on the community for 点と線 and thus stumbled upon your study log
Just thought I’d mention that the book is being read on the Natively Forum if you’re interested
