Good to know ! I am following the advice of ABBC to do 1 lesson every 1/2 days, so I should be here fast enough to at least get a small understanding of things once I come accross them when reading.
I actually follow another advice from a Lvl 60 celebration thread, to watch Tokini Andy Genki lessons, followed up by the exercices website : Genki Exercises - 3rd Edition | Genki Study Resources.
I am sure it will not be easy at all to jump into things straight away, but I think it is also what I need, I always learned languages by reading / consuming content.
I think if you read through the first few chapters of Genki this week that will clear up a lot of the grammar questions you’ve had so far!
My issue atm is that Tokini Andy does course on grammar, but then the Genki book (or any grammar book) uses a lot of vocab I have not seen yet in Wanikani, which adds even more workload 
. I will need to figure it out for sure before burning out
You don’t need to memorize all the vocab used in Genki immediately, but if it becomes too much to handle, then you could think about coming back to the book club later, or reading less of the book club at a time, like 1 sentence instead of one page.
- Hiragana + Katakana
- Grammar: as much as possible and as fast as possible
- Vocabulary: After I couldn’t learn Grammar anymore (Japanese from Zero Chapter 10) because I knew to few words to answer the questions in the textbook without looking Up nearly everyt Word, I did a Break from Grammar and spend more time learning vocabulary.
- Reading & Grammar: I’ve started to read my first book with the bookclub and I’m slowly continuing to learn grammar
That’s how I learned so far.
Yes, I think I will skip through some vocab of genki when doing the exercices to focus on understanding the grammar, and probably will just note the vocab somewhere to do in anki.
Sounds good ! Well organized, german-style 
Sounds good! Don’t be afraid to change up or slow down your study habits. Since you just started, it might take some trial and error before you get into a good rhythm with a workload that’s not overwhelming.
Yes, I definitely need to pace myself. I think what I would slow down would be grammar as it adds a lot of work. For exemple switching Genki for bunpro when I feel out of time, just looking up the lesson snippet. Or just to avoid the genki vocabulary as much as possible / less lessons.
I feel like keeping up with the reading while looking up grammar snippets will help me integrate them more, without having to spend all my time on workbook. The more I will see for exemple “て” and such in the wild, having a little context about it, will help me. What do you think ?
Not really. It Just happened. But I will try to continue to concentrate on one Thing for a few weeks and Change my Method when I feel it’s necessary.
I forgot to mention JapanesePod101. I finished the Pathways Level 1.1, 1 and I started Level 2. Then I stopped because I couldn’t understand anything anymore. I listened to it during Point 1 and 2. Maybe I will be able to continue after the bookclub.
You don’t have to do all of the workbook exercises right away. Maybe alternate reading and textbook study? Like dedicate one day to reading from the book club, then the next day read a chapter from Genki. Then the day after that return to the book club and see if anything you just learned from Genki shows up in the reading. You don’t need to follow the book club pace, it might be a bit too fast at the moment, just continue at your own pace.
Okay, I will figure it out! I wished to be on pace with the book club though aha. I will try tomorrow just reading a page with grammar snippets on bunpro and no exercices of Genki, as Genki is also far behind the grammar needed (を is lesson 3 for exemple), so not helpful for reading as much as I need it, and also requires learning a lot of vocab.
I will do Genki as when I have time, like today :).
Good luck with your studies!
Thanks for taking the time to help us out!
good read this week! i think this one went much faster for me, i’m sure its because there’s not an onomatopoeia every other word lol
lots of good new vocab added to my anki!
Awesome, glad to hear it!
Those dang onomatopoeia
Wow you read really fast with only level 3, congrats! Did you have previous experience ?
Page 27 Sentence 3 further discussion
Great job! One further note:
はいていました is the polite form of the past progressive (aka past continuous) tense. My understanding is that あるき also adopts the tense of that later verb. So, this translates to:
In the summer she would walk [or used to walk or was walking] barefoot, in the winter she would wear heavy wood shoes.
I see that there’s been further conversation on はいていました on this page, but I didn’t see any links to grammar references, so I thought I’d add my two cents.
So that’s what that is… The bunpro explanation really helped me actually! But I dont understand how ました relates to ていた ? You mean it is a more polite way : ていました ? て + いる in polite form ? I havent studied polite forms yet
Yes, that’s right, ます is the polite verb form.
Plain verb forms:
X ている is x-ing
X ていた was x-ing (past tense)
Polite ます forms
ています
ていました