For this week, the ABBC readings really emphasized the need for learning grammar. I had some trouble right away, in the first few pages where it was like:
闇の力を秘めし「鍵」よ！
So I understood the “power of darkness” bit. But then I couldn’t understand the function of を like, I know it’s making the “power of darkness” the object, but who/what hides it? I was looking for the が and は markers until I caved in and looked at the English translation - which indicated that it was “the key”. but…but there’s no は or が *screams * The よ I knew that it was a sentence ender, so it couldn’t be it.
And loath the textbooks, I do. Or it’s just that I’m too lazy. So I checked out Cure Dolly’s videos and oh man. I should have watched this earlier! I found her lessons easier to understand and I even made my own little notes (like the vocab sheet, but this time for the sentence forms) so I could remember it well.
So I decided to just change the Genki bit to Grammar. So it could be Genki or Cure Dolly at this point.
Anyhoo! On to the next week! 
This Week’s Summary (6th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Oct 7 - Oct 13 ‘24)
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Reflections
Oct. 13, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Bunpro review today~
- Did only 10 lessons for today because I had my laptop’s battery replaced
- Listening for today was Japanese versions of English songs again
- Didn’t do readings for today because we got home late from the technician’s place and I had to do the recalibration for the battery
- Kana Quiz - I feel like the kana reading is getting better at least for this week
- I just realized my level 7 0/0 streak post was not a true 0/0 since I still had the “Advanced” button in the lessons. orz I should fix it before I level up on Wednesday.
Oct. 12, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Did some bunpro reviews today - although I don’t track bunpro’s timely reviews, like in here in WK… maybe that’s bad…
- Unlocked the rest of level 7 Kanjis today!
- Listening for today is both N5 listening practice and Japanese versions of english songs
- Read the last 2 pages of week # 2 of ABBC, and 1 page of week # 3 ABBC without looking at the grammar sheet for now. For the vocabulary I didn’t understand, I just skipped it since I will go over it again some time next week
- Re-watched some Cure dolly episodes, particularly on the adjective ep one cause I really couldn’t wrap my head around it at this time
Oct. 11, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Did some bunpro reviews today
- Did ~20 lv7 vocabulary cuz I’m anticipating a kanji unlock tomorrow afternoon.
- Skipped reading in favor of watching cure dolly episodes
- Listening consisted of Japanese version of some english songs, and 1 episode of N5 listening practice
Oct. 10, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Did some bunpro reviews in the morning
- Skipped reading and listening today cuz it was quite a busy and exhausting day at work - not proud of that
- Learned 20 vocabs tonight (mix of lv 6 vocabs, and some kana vocabs of lv 7) to compensate for that
- Watched one episode of cure dolly (and re-watched the ep for the Te and Ta forms, since I still get them interchanged in bunpro reviews lol)
Oct. 9, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Leveled up to 7 this morning!
- Went ahead and tackled the radicals and initial set of Kanjis right away
- Listening for today consisted of Japanese covers of english songs
- For reading, I re-read the first four pages of week #2 of CCS ABBC. Surprised to see some familiar kanjis of Lv 7 in there. Though I haven’t gotten to its vocab counterpart.
- Didn’t have bunpro reviews today so I thought I’d add the past tense and non-past continuous verb forms.
- Re-watched some ep of cure dolly - it feels like I’m cheating my way into learning because she explained it in a way that sounded so simple like that.
Oct. 8, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - I actually went on a birthday party for one of my colleagues today and I sneaked in some reviews here and there
- Listening for today is still the Japanese versions of english songs. Sorry, N5 listening practice! I’ll get back to you on the weekend.
- In Spotify, they have lyrics in Japanese, too, and I was able to recognize some vocabs and it made me a little excited. I suppose that will be for the reading today.
- Watched an ep of curedolly, I think EP 6. I wanted to get the basic grammar structures out of the way first before continuing on with ABBC.
- Bunpro reviews for the day!
- Conquered the Lv6 vocabs that were initially unlocked today as well. It was a correct choice to do it after lunch because I didn’t have time tonight lol
Oct. 7, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
- Did around 20 level 6 vocabs today and I think I like this round of vocabs because of the 国 kanji. Just need to remember when to use ごく and こく.
- Watched 1 episode of Cure Dolly - Japanese from scratch and I think it’s an ep where she discussed the -te and -teiru form. I re-watched some of the earlier episodes again just to drill in the concepts.
- I’m starting to grow tired of the N5 listening practice because of the sound cues lol so today was just listening to Japanese versions of english songs. I found a playlist on spotify, put it on, and did some meal preps for the week.
- Bunpro reviews as usual.
- For reading, I just went over the speech bubbles with sentences for week 1 of ABBC. Just want to check if I could understand it fully before moving on to week 2’s pages.
Goals for this week:
Level up WaniKani to Level 7
Finish vocab for WK Lv6
Guru the Kanjis of Lv6 - second half
Guru the Radicals of Lv7
Guru the Kanjis of Lv7 - first half
Finish reading Week # 3 of CCS Bookclub!
Daily Bunpro reviews
Learn new grammar (Genki or Cure Dolly)
Weekly hiragana and katakana Quiz (Sunday)
Listen Every Day Challenge - Autumn 2024 
