This week, I had not been good with consuming Japanese materials outside of WaniKani reviews and lessons. I wasn’t able to finish the Week # 3 of CCS ABBC. Although I was able to do some bunpro reviews to compensate, and some Cure Dolly episodes.
The good thing though is that I was able to have my laptop battery replaced which significantly made the performance better. It doesn’t take 10 mins for the laptop to boot up and load my Firefox tabs anymore 
Though I need to go back to the technician because, while the laptop can run without the need for it to be plugged in AC, it doesn’t charge the battery somehow. It was fine while it was in the technician’s shop… I also already tried to check every outlet in my apartment, and the same results.
Oh well. 
This Week’s Summary (7th Week on WaniKani)
Weekly Activity Tracker (Oct 14 - Oct 20 ‘24)
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Reflections
Oct. 14, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - today, my review pile was around ~150 ish and without any new lessons, it’s a calm day
- I had a grand total of 1 bunpro review today - I seriously need to add more grammar points orz and I’m also considering subscribing on the 16th to force myself to use it
- Listening for today was Japanese versions of English songs as usual
- Checked out Satori Reader today and picked a random story - Turning Leaves and Wintry Winds
- I took a look at the first paragraphs of the first episode and checked to see if I could read the sentences without the audio. If I was in doubt, I would play the audio recording to check.
- Re-watched the な-Adjectives ep of Cure Dolly.
Oct. 15, '24:
Today marks my first year here in WK (well, this account is 1 year old), and I have a lot of feelings like maybe if I did it last year, I would have been at Level X by now and so on, but I’m just glad I picked it back up.
Hopefully I will be on track on my projected schedule and look back at this post, same time next year.
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening - I overdid my lessons again. I didn’t have any lessons for today so just crashing my review pile for a level up tomorrow
- I subscribed to Bunpro finally and I hope this helps me remember those grammar points better - in case I do not encounter them in the wild
- Listening and Reading for today was Satori Reader - finished an Episode of the same story, Turning Leaves and Wintry Winds
Oct. 16, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning (for the level up) and in the evening
- Overall, I was able to do a total of 45 lessons done in batches throughout the day
- Watched EP 07 of Cure Dolly again and continued to EP 08 cause I didn’t watch Cure Dolly yesterday
- Okay so mayyyybe I don’t know what story to read yet so I picked up another new story from Satori Reader - Sakura and Suzuki’s LDR
I also noticed just today that the stories in Satori Reader have an Easy version. I feel like this length of EP would suit me at this level that I am now (Level 8). So that would be my reading/listening for today.
Oct. 17, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and in the evening - interestingly, I find myself kind of “guessing” the readings of some vocabs, particularly the one with the 年 kanji. So I know it could read as 年 (like 年下
) or 年 for (~年来* ) and if the script detects I’m using the wrong reading, I would just undo my answer and retype the correct reading. Not sure if it will have negative impact, but maybe encountering it in the wild will help reinforce it.
- Did 20 vocab lessons - they’re easier for today’s session which leaves me around 9 vocabs left for level 7. I could have taken everything today but I didn’t want to have one day of no lessons. It’s the lessons that make me come back to WK I realized.
- Listened to Yuyuの日本語Podcast again and I found that I could recognize some of the vocabulary properly, and could even distinguish the borrowed english words better than the last time I listened (around 3 weeks ago)
- Watched EP 09 of Cure Dolly and re-watched to な-adjectives ep again, hoping to understand it better.
- Bunpro reviews and maybe I will pick up the bunpro lessons rather than using the Genki deck since I’m not actively doing Genki again at this time
- Read the last free EP of Sakura and Suzuki’s LDR, EP02 on Satori Reader
Oct. 18, '24:
Not much reflections today but here’s a cockroach dance crew:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and in the evening - today, I almost forgot the reading for 不明. I kept remembering the 明るい reading. So I’m logging it here.
- I put 2 new lessons in bunpro N5 level
- Didn’t do much active listening but I did listen to some Japanese music while working
- Didn’t watch Cure Dolly today - I was too immersed with the latest current affairs of the country, considering there’s a midterm election by next year and I wanted to stay informed
- Did read one page of Week #3 for CCS ABBC! I haven’t looked up the vocab sheet but will do tomorrow
- Went back to Turning leaves story in Satori reader because I consumed the free EPs of Sakura and Suzuki’s LDR
Oct. 19, '24↑:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and in the evening - today, I unlocked a few kanjis from the second batch but I think I’ll be able to Guru the radicals by tomorrow!
- Wasn’t able to do extensive readings/listening since I had to help my father with some tinkering around the house. The bright side was that I was able to Mokuro some new manga that I got from the high seas
- Read 1 page of CCS ABBC Week #3
- Bunpro reviews - but no new lessons yet
- No Cure Dolly either. I’m beat.
- Highlight of my day was playing animal crossing again after 6 weeks Inb4 I fall asleep after I write this log entry
Oct. 20, '24:
- WaniKani reviews in the morning and in the evening - today, I unlocked all kanjis and got the radicals of level 8 to Guru
- Watched, well more like listened to 2 EPs of Bungo Stray Dogs. I encountered these known vocabs from the two episodes. There were some more but more or less the personal pronouns, kana vocabs like pointer nouns.
| Vocab | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 先日 | the other day |
| 今回 | this time |
| 全く | truly |
| ビー玉 | marble |
| 出来る | to be able to do |
- Kana Quiz today
- Didn’t do reading today cause I’m about to fall asleep in front of the laptop
- Bunpro reviews
Goals for this week:
Level up WaniKani to Level 8
Finish vocab for WK Lv7
Guru the Kanjis of Lv7 - second half
Guru the Radicals of Lv8
Guru the Kanjis of Lv 8 (first half) - Interleaving the radicals/kanjis/vocab
Finish reading Week # 3 of CCS Bookclub!
Daily Bunpro review
Learn new grammar
Weekly hiragana and katakana Quiz (Sunday)
Listen Every Day Challenge - Autumn 2024 
