It’s not the added effort I would say makes it more effective, but more engagement with unknown words during lookups - for me personally - yes this helping has come out of my experiments. But the details are important and it depends on what you actually enjoy
For me, I like to spend the time grappling with a word to try to remember it before looking it up, and when I look it up, I often pay attention to eg the kanji components and make associations with other words. And I consider the context the word is in - formality, pos/neg connotation often being important and not written in the definition. Not with every. single. lookup, but for sure, the more engagement, then the more likely I am to remember it next time. In this way my vocab grows without srs.
But some people really don’t enjoy that, and they prefer instant lookups and achieve a higher reading volume. Also valid and makes great progress!
And last caveat, I have some things I read more extensively where I don’t look up words if not needed and I just let the reading experience be more immersive. This is also important and helps with the big picture of understanding Japanese writing
It’s worth trying different reading styles for a while now and then as breaking autopilot itself can be insightful
That’s interesting because I can relate to this a lot, but for grammar! I usually really try to understand grammar points and to make notes of them
For words I am more of the “look up fast forget fast” type of guy. But usually with a lot of repetition, they tend to stay in my mind. It’s very rare that I retain a word until I saw it 30 + times, except if it’s via wanikani. Probably my weak spot but I work with what I have…
While your primary focus is primarily on WaniKani and grammar, that’s fine really, and putting too much more intensive study into everything you do could ruin the fun. Probably later when grammar is easier or you’re through the most common words on wk, then you’ll naturally engage more with words you come across reading. And then repetitions to form a strong memory will go way down, easily less than half that.
I did this with the Doraemon ABBC a while ago and it was really useful
My current process is to read through without checking anything to see how much I retain, then to look at the vocab sheets, then to reread again checking some of the grammar points/comparing to the English version (if I have it). My process has definitely changed over time as I got more comfortable with reading though.
You are right. Sometimes I am kinda forgetting that my process is//should be/needs to be different from people who already can read fluently (grammar at least), except for some few words in which it would make more sense to focus on them and do as you said
I believe this sentence is 「大和のことをほめていた」, so he was saying Suna complimented her. I think referring to when he said she was a nice girl or something, real briefly.
Great job breaking everything down, as always! The fact that you do a lot of that manually and double check it is impressive!!!
