Study Log of Madness

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This week, my schedule was thrown off due to work duties. :upside_down_face: So there will be some adjustments to the projected schedule table as well as on the weekly goals.

I haven’t been doing grammar this week, nor any daily readings. It was quite hard to juggle both work stuff together with readings, with my reading being quite bad at the moment. As a way to compensate, I just watched/listened to Bungo Stray Dogs anime, and I’m planning to add more animes soon. I saw someone in my Natively following list, probably hotdogsuplex had the FMA in their list as well. Considering I’ve watched it multiple times already, it may encourage me to persevere in my studies even more!

There are also some items that need a review to go up to master but I’ve forgotten either the meaning or reading, so I lessened the lessons this week in favor of studying those items again. I also just realized the purpose of Phonetic-Semantic Composition script when I encountered 時 and the kanji 持 which have the same reading: じ. It does make it easier to guess the readings on some items, but I’m not quite comfortable adding something new to my readings. :face_holding_back_tears: I do not have enough braincells to support it yet.

I also missed the 0/0 streak for level 8 because I leveled up while still having unlocked vocabs of that level. Oh well, I’ll just do better next week!

This Week’s Summary (9th Week on WaniKani)

Weekly Activity Tracker (Oct 28 - Nov 3 ‘24)

Type 月 火 水 木 金 曜 日
WaniKani
Grammar
Bunpro
Listening
Reading
Watching
Reflections

Oct. 28, '24:

Today, I got the opportunity to tackle a huge batch of lessons because the lessons were quite easy - most of them have the same kanji in the vocabs, and some are new kana vocabs by the time I guru’d the radicals. There were also lessons where I already knew the Japanese vocab for it. Ex. 星(ほし) for star, or 海(うみ) for sea.

The only trouble I’m having is the one with 場 because I can never tell if it’s ば like in 場所(ばしょ) or 工場(こうじょう) in factory, or 立場(たちば) for standpoint. :sob:

Also, I feel like there’s a pattern to distinguish the transitive and intransitive verb. I kinda get it with 下げる(さげる) vs 下がる(さがる) but I have trouble remembering it with 向(む)ける vs 向(む)く.

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Did a staggering 56 lessons in total today :cold_sweat: I did 20 in the morning, then around 16 in the afternoon, then another 20 before I left the office.
  • Discovered Anime Melon (sorry, the unified word is filtered somehow, and the link to it is filtered, too) in my pursuit of looking for animes with JPN subtitles. I wasn’t that successful in the high seas, and crunchy roll didn’t seem to have them in most titles. Then I came across a post by FluentU and found that treasure trove. The only downside is ofc it’s streaming so you need decent internet connection.
  • Listened to the EP and read along the subtitles of FMA EP 01. I was especially focused on the opening song because it is one of the greatest anime OP song ever.
  • Bunpro reviews

Oct. 29, '24:

Today’s client meetings drained me out and I got home so late so I just wanted to turn in for the night after my last review.

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Did 11 unlocked lessons today and I’m anticipating to unlock new lessons tomorrow
  • Listened to Japanese covers of english song while in transit today
  • Bunpro review - I did add new grammar points like でも, から, and the other に for indicating time.

Oct. 30, '24:

I think my level up will be a bit late this week. Based on the review forecast, it will be on Friday, so it won’t be a full speed anymore for this level to the next.

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Did 20 unlocked lessons today
  • Bunpro reviews

Oct. 31, '24:

We had our Halloween party today in the office and the highlight of it was the pets that my colleagues brought, not the kids :sweat_smile: It was also a busy day with multiple meetings that extended during the party itself, so I wasn’t able to join the program and all lmao.

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Finished the first half of unlocked level 9 vocabs today :bowing_woman: - Tomorrow is a level up so there will be new lessons so far.
  • I’m also gonna put it in here that I will forget the 表(おもて) reading of this kanji hahaha
  • Bunpro reviews

Long weekend will start tomorrow so I hope I can do more Japanese studies on the side~

Nov. 1 '24:

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening

  • Leveled up to 10 :partying_face: It may have taken 8 days due to work but now I’m in the double-digits level :joy:

  • With that, I did 43 lessons to cover all radicals and kanjis in the morning. I remember waking up at 6:30 knowing I need to level up within the hour, but I went back to sleep and woke up at 9 lol So I had to do all the lessons while trying to keep my eyes open

  • Watched Bungo Stray Dogs EP 12-15, and still watching. That finishes the S1 and starts the S2. Spoiler alert:

  • Bunpro reviews

I just spent the day catching up on sleep and resetting my body clock. I could try to get back to Cure Dolly once again and pick up CCS reading for week #4 by tomorrow. Kids were going around the neighborhood doing trick or treat :skull:

Nov. 2 '24:

Wow this day is good. I got all boxes checked except for grammar. :sweat_smile:

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Did around 25 lessons today, however, it feels like I’m struggling for this round. Totally not because of these kanjis
Vocab Meaning
必要 Essential, Necessary
重要 Essential, Necessary
部屋 Room - I know I’m gonna confuse this with しつ
毎度 Each time
今度 This time - Which I might confuse with 今回
  • Bungo stray dogs EP16 -18 - I actually went overboard last night and I was listening to it until 2 am in the morning lol I’m listening to EP19 now but I’ll cut it off to EP 20 tonight.
  • Bunpro reviews
  • Finished week # 4 of CCS. whew! I was surprised to see the vocabs 表(おもて) and 紙(かみ) and recognizing them. What’s more interesting to see was the ほんの表紙(表し) which took a couple braincells to decipher since it uses the onyomi readings lol I also recognized 風 and 自身(じしん) which I recognized from 私自身.

Nov. 3 '24:

  • WaniKani reviews in the morning and evening
  • Did the last 20 vocabs of level 9 so I’m still on track for this week!
  • Bungo stray dogs EP21-24 - I’m just passively listening at this point but I want to go back a few years after to fully enjoy the no-sub experience
  • Bunpro reviews
  • Cure Dolly EP08b and EP09
  • Kana Quiz

Goals for this week:

Level up WaniKani to Level 10
Finish vocab for WK Lv9
Guru the Radicals of Lv9
Guru the Kanjis of Lv 9 - all kanjis
Guru the Radicals of Lv 10
Guru the Kanjis of Lv 10 (first half)
Finish reading Week # 4 of CCS Bookclub!
Daily Bunpro reviews
Watch Curedolly episodes
Weekly hiragana and katakana Quiz (Sunday)

Challenges I’ve Joined

Previous Weeks’ Summaries

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