And so my fourth week has flown by~ I didn’t have a lot of expectations this week, except for the WaniKani reviews. I’d say I’m really strict with myself on that because it’s so easy to fall behind one day which can turn into a year… I really did Genki dirty like that, and didn’t pick it up. No, because like I’m running on fumes at the moment. I thought having an overnight fever last Tuesday was it. Done. Nothing. Nada. Esta hecho. No, it had to evolve into clogged nose, itchy throat, and now occasional coughing. It made me too tired and just went with the SRS type of stuff.
しかし! To make up for Genki, I put it as a vague entry in the Goals for this week, and it can be ticked off by doing something Genki related…haha…
My takeaway as this week ends is to really do the self-study quiz as soon as I learn new WK lessons. I can’t always refer to the nice mnemonics so I have to make my own on the fly - I find myself doing lessons while on the way to work. And because of this, I tend to forget it as soon as the first review for it rolls around. But if I do SSQ on it, I have a higher probability of remembering it. wow, much learning, much rocket science
Also, this week, I really liked listening to N5 JPN listening podcasts. There was an instance where I understood the conversation because I encountered those vocabs at my current level. It gave me confidence to trudge through my lessons and reviews everyday.
I found myself joining some clubs and installing softwares that are intended for future use. Funny how it would seem like I have this inkling that I would be using them rather sooner than later. And with that, this week comes to a close, and coming into a new week once again!
This Week’s Summary (5th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Sept. 30 - Oct 6 ‘24)
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Reflections
Oct. 6, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - I start to see how I get some vocab readings confusing AF
I need to do the SSQ again sometime this day - Watched 3 episodes of Cure Dolly - Japanese from scratch and I gotta say it’s just so different with what I learned from Genki, watching TokiniAndy back then. It was just 8 mins of video per episodes and somehow I’ve learned so much in such little time. Especially the wo article. I love that she made a whole complex sentence, explaining the function of each particle, and how it changes the structure of the sentence, when the particles are rearranged.
- Cure Dolly also shed light to a lesson in Bunpro that I couldn’t get my head to wrap around: why い-adjectives don’t use だ.
- After the Cure Dolly episodes, I went back to some pages of CCS that I knew I didn’t understand the grammar structure. So I guess that’s what I did for today’s reading.
- Only did around ~10 lessons today because I’ve been getting some items incorrectly, and I feel the need to review them before taking on new lessons. Thankfully it’s with vocabs, not the kanjis needed for leveling up.
- I had more items checked off for this week’s goal still not getting any Genki tho lol and I’ll keep at it!
- Kana Quiz today.
Oct. 5, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - This morning I had around ~84 reviews because I slept too comfortably, and I woke up 4 hrs later than I intended
- Finished the last 10 vocabs of the level 6 initial unlocks! I gotta say, this is my new favorite phrase now:
- Today, I learned 冬休み which is a part of the lyric of まつり by Fuji Kaze. And It was like a Eureka! moment for me.
Back then, I thought it was “Winter, good night.” oh lawd… 
- Finally unlocked the rest of the level 6 kanjis!
- Today, I just reread CCS from page 1 to page 17 uninterrupted
- Listened to N5 listening practice just for an hour today
Oct. 4, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - I’m paying close attention now on when I do my lessons so I can do the required reviews at the expected time
- Did another huge bulk of lessons today (~37 vocabs) in preparation for the anticipated Guru-ing of the radicals, which should unlock the second leg of kanjis. I feel like I might be demotivated to see a huge backlog of lessons while unlocking new kanjis and vocabs yet again.
- That also finishes all the vocabs of level 5! With around 10 vocabs left of level 6 (initial unlock).
- For a while now, (since level 4 actually) I’ve gotten perfect accuracy in every review session. Today, I found it hard to remember these vocabs and I had to fail them since I couldn’t recall. I suppose I just need to study them again tomorrow. I logged it here so I can get back to it.
- Read 1 page of the CCS ABBC (hopefully I can read more pages tomorrow!)
Listened to N5 listening practice while at work. Today, I seem to be actively listening and I found myself understanding the gist of conversations - Watched some Cure Dolly episodes and added the grammar points to Bunpro - which ticks off the bunpro goal for this week!
- I decided to just update the reading and listening challenges weekly (on Sundays) since I’ve got my hands full with the study log already
Oct. 3, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- I did ~48 Lv5-6 vocabularies today
I was feeling motivated for some reasons and well, that just happened lol. I did break it into two sessions so it wasn’t too overwhelming
**I also cherry picked the lessons so that I focused on the group of vocabs that use the same kanjis, and the set of new kanas I unlocked form level 6. - Read 1 page of the CCS ABBC (Probably this is the rate at which I could read during weekdays)
- Listened to N5 listening practice while doing SSQ and Bunpro
Oct. 2, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Listened to some N5 Japanese practice in YT while at work - although I could do this because I was working from home. Coughing still, but not as bad as the past few days.
- Watched two episodes of Cure Dolly, and I must say it has been enlightening Started making my vocab sheet that I shameless stole
copied from Akashelia but still incomplete since I haven’t encountered the other sticky ending verb forms
- Didn’t get much reading due to a whole day meeting, but I did one page of the CCS ABBC Week # 2. If I keep up at it, I might be able to catch up to the current week, or next week
- Also, I was today years old when I found out about the Japanese Only (Lv1-5 Beginner) section of the forum. I did some lurking around and answered the question to 何人です？
- Also leveled up to Lv6 this morning so I prioritized learning the radicals and kanjis immediately. Level 5 vocab who? I don’t know her.
- Forgot to add: Bunpro review! It’s still at 31/126 for N5 but it should be increasing around the weekend~
Oct. 1, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Listened to some N5 Japanese practice in YT - I finally got around to comprehending the use of ありません. There was a conversation that went like:
A: Is there coffee?
B: No, there’s not coffee.
A: Is there tea?
B: Yes, there’s tea.
A: Then that’s good.
Not the exact phrases but that’s the gist of it. And I got my first day in the listening challenge Fall 2024 ticked off~
- Bunpro review for today
- Setup Anki for mining vocabs in the CCS readings - I already created a deck for Volume 1 and I will populate it as I go on
- Read pages 9-12 of カードキャタさくら Week #1 - I finished the first week! Now I can read the Week #1 thread of CCS haha maybe some of my questions will be answered there. Oh, right, now I can tick off my first day on reading challenge Fall
Sep 30, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Listened to some N5 Japanese practice in YT
- Made my Japanese songs playlist - combination of anime songs and some choice Japanese artists
- Bunpro review and added new grammar points
- Read pages 7-9 of カードキャタさくら Week #1 - I didn’t fully comprehend the sentences in terms of being able to translate it in English in my head. I had to look up the English translation at some point. But at least I can add new grammar points in Bunpro and see how those verbs are used in other cases.
Goals for this week:
Level up WaniKani to Level 6
Finish vocab for WK Lv5
Guru the Radicals of Lv6
Guru the Kanjis of Lv6 - first half!
Finish reading Week # 1 of CCS Bookclub!
Add 5 new grammar points on Bunpro
Do something with Genki - Gonna put it vaguely for now 
Weekly hiragana and katakana Quiz (Sunday)
Listen Every Day Challenge - Autumn 2024 
