Sometimes Mokuro is really bad at reading kanji and guesses wrong.
But hey, who am I to judge, sometimes my eyes do the same 
(I’ve embarrassed myself plenty asking questions about things I wouldn’t understand when it turns out I had just misread, like 犬 instead of 太 or あした instead of あたし)
Ain’t that the truth 
I’m relieved that it’s not only Mokuro’s shortcoming as a software but a combination of bad scans, specific fonts, and even paper quality as said by araigoshi. I’m sure Mokuro’s trying hard like the rest of us 
How right you are! It’s a different kind of mountain on its own.
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 2024 as well!
Lol the last post was dated Sept 30… I thought I didn’t post for Oct 1. 
Feeling the signs of aging…
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~
Oh yeah! Now watch that baby grow 
こんにちは,はじめまして。I first want to say that your study log is amazing. It gives me encouragement to do the same.
TLDR: Another great resource is Wagotabi.
I started watching anime back in 2000. Though to be honest, my love for Japan started back in 1997 when I did an English report on the Samurai. I really wish I had started to take classes back then but I never saw myself using it unless I was going to actually use it. Since the anime I watched were either dubbed or subbed, it never helped give me the push to learn it. In 2005, I started to learn some phrases and similar to you, things got busy and it fell away. Then about 6 years ago I saw a Japanese cookbook on Amazon and my passion slightly revived. Then about 3 years ago I was at a great bookstore that had come across a great copy of The Japanese House by Heinrich Engel for a really good price. This revived my love even more. So I started looking for books to learn it. Of which I found a few good ones but the Hiragana and Katagana and Kanji wouldn’t stick. So I put it on hold. Then came an opportunity that would gently push me into learning the language. I won’t get into the opportunity details though because that is a whole other subject.
I have a friend who moved to Japan. He grew up there so he already has a good understanding of the language. He came to visit a couple weeks ago and I got to talk to him about Japan for a few hours. That really sealed it for me. I was going to learn Japanese. Two weeks ago I came across a really great resource… Wagotabi! It released globally 10/02 (for some places that is today and others it was yesterday) but the demo was available. I started the demo and finished it about 3 times. It is a great resource. I also started wanikani.com, yesterday. So I hope to at least be focused like you are.
Thank you so much for your feedback! Atp I still don’t have a structured learning progress where I can say I finished a chapter of a textbook. I’m mostly doing reviews, passive listening, and maybe reading a few pages from the book club. So it’s all word vomit here, and just my general thoughts/feelings during that day.
I checked it out. I think gamifying learning is genius and specially catered to a demographic of learners. I once encountered gamified entrance exam to a job, and well, I didn’t do well. I just panicked because there was little time and I didn’t understand the mechanics…haha There are nuances to it that makes the concepts be retained better. I might check out the game on the weekend. It’s already available in my region when I checked the appstore.
Although, I gotta ask, does the demo include all this, or only to the paid version? I’m guessing to the paid, but how much have you learned in the demo?
Welcome to the cult Kingdom of the Crabigator! I hope you find yourself enjoying the app like I do. For the first few levels, it may seem like you’re not learning useful enough words/vocab but that’s just because it’s designed that way. Quoting from one of my level up emails:
On WaniKani, you see fewer “useful” words early on because you’re learning the kanji that is simplest in form, not meaning. We do it this way because the form of the kanji is the thing that’s hard for non-Japanese people.
Hope you stick around for levels 4 and beyond! 
And join us here in the forums. The people I have met here are just way too kind and cool.
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
So in the demo, it covers about 16 Hiragana and 3 or 5 Kanji. All of which gives you a very limited amount of things possible to say. However, it gives meaning and sentence structure right from the start. When you pay for the full version it is based in the Kagawa Prefecture. Later they plan on adding more prefectures which will add more content to increase understanding to an N5 level.
I highly recommend playing the demo and seeing if you like it. If you do buy it, know that once you leave the airport (the last place you are in the demo), it picks up quick. It is hard to describe you pretty much have to try it out and see.
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.
言う, 行く, 行う and 近い
- 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
Luckily for you, apart from the おこな reading, the other 3 vocab are VERY common so you’ll be seeing them all the over place
That’s good, then~ I’m trying to get the mnemonic of eagle for (い) to stick to my brain but it just eludes me. On the contrary, the conga mnemonic for 考える has had no problems. Though, I used to read it as “koh-nga” and thus I wrote, ”こんががえる" Perhaps the weirder/unusual (for me) it sounds, the more likely it leaves an impression to me.
You’re not unusual there! The weird/extreme mnemonics stick in your brain better
The おこなう reading also will be easy to recognize when you start reading, both from context (activities being ‘carried out’ is a pretty different meaning from ‘to go’) and from conjugation (う verbs are conjugated differently so it will be obvious from the ending conjugation)
So yeah, basically, don’t sweat it 
Oh yeah but it’s nowhere near as common as いく
I swear every other sentence in manga is て言う
Well, depends which manga you read 
People don’t normally bother finishing て言う sentences in a lot of the ones I read, you just get って.
Oh right! That makes sense as well. 行く is an irregular verb so it will have a different conjugation with 行う. Haha thank you!
I can’t wait to get to that part of the grammar lessons so I can understand this haha
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:
仕方がない！
- 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
Hello ABBC peeps and esteemed veterans (if you’re reading this!) what do you do with new kanji or vocabs you encounter during your reading? Or, how do you keep track of the new vocabs?
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 compared to 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 を 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.
**I began to think the reason I’m getting some reviews wrong was because I installed the Katakana for Onyomi script which turns Onyomi readings to Katakana. And since my Katakana is far from decent, I tend to forget it and still think in Hiragana.