What are your goals for Japanese in 2022 and have you been able to reach your goals for 2021?

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Are these your goals for 2022? Or 2021? They sound really interesting anyway, especially the last one. I hope that in 2022, you manage to accomplish the other half of what you intended to do. :slight_smile:

My goals for Japanese for this year? I’ve only got one: reach the N1 level by July 2022, ideally by March 2022. Part of it is going to be finishing all the test prep books I’ve got myself in time, but I also hope I’ll manage to read more news articles and finally start speaking more comfortably. (I manage pretty well when I text my friend, but speaking is another matter. The words don’t flow well enough.) Hopefully I’ll manage to juggle everything well enough to get it all done in good time.

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#9

2021

  • Take the jlpt N2. Done. Will get the results in Jan/Feb, but I think I passed :eyes: :sparkles:
  • Read 10 books. Done. 11/10
  • Read 60 manga. Almost done. 56/60. There’s still a week left so I’ll finish it.

Has been a good year :3

2022

  • Finish a book within a week. I think my record so far is 11 days. Of course, eventually I want to be able to finish a book within a day, but I don’t think that will happen next year.
  • SRS more words each week. Haven’t been too consistent other than with WK. Will do more Koohi.
  • I want to do N1 grammar. So I’ll try adding the rest of the ones on BunPro. Currently at 47/165. Measurable goal :ok_hand:
  • Read a bunch of books :books::books: Not sure what number. Last year, my goal was 5 books. This year, it was 10 books. So maybe I’ll go for 20 books?! :eyes: murimuri kamo :caught_durtling: 12 books sounds good. No manga goal.
  • Read/listen about the nervous system in Japanese. Will be a good review for uni related stuff and a bunch of new words to learn, I’m sure. Possibly other topics related to anatomy, too :3
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#10

reach lvl 30-40 on wanikani until the end of summer and learn additional 4k words in torii.
with 8k words under the belt slowly transition to immersion where my Japanese gonna be maintained organically through animes with jp subtitles. Where it no longer feels like I’m studying and just finally enjoying the content with occasional looks at the dictionary.

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#11

@LastStand Would you mind if we moved this thread to #japanese-language category? :slight_smile: I think it fits better there rather than in campfire.

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#13

Done! Funnily enough, I’ve had it in the Japanese Language section first but moved it for some reason. :upside_down_face:

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#14

I’ll be honest, I didn’t really have many goals going into 2021 at all :sweat_smile:. I’d just started WK, with only hiragana and katakana under my belt and no grammar yet, and I didn’t have any concrete plans for studying Japanese beyond that.

So I absolutely surpassed my expectations by far!

What I've managed to accomplish in 2021:
  • Learned 800 kanji and over 3,000 words
  • Made it more than a third of the way through the Minna no Nihongo beginners textbook series
  • Learned how to write Japanese
  • Learned how to effectively utilize tools like Anki and Yomichan and build a self-study plan that I have been able to keep up for over nine months without missing a day
  • Read my first book in Japanese (大海原と大海原)
  • Started a massive translation project
My goals for 2022:
  • Reach level 50 in WK
  • Complete MNN 1 and get most of the way through 2
  • Keep up with Anki and Kaniwani reviews
  • Continue reading and engaging with the language while immersing

I’m at a point where I feel like as long as I keep going, I’ll get where I want to be eventually. I just have to put in the work each day with SRS and textbook study and immersion. So I honestly don’t really have yearly goals—the goals listed above are more or less what I will achieve if I just stay on course each day. I’m not setting any goals for an amount of pages or words read because I read so much Japanese just in bits and pieces during my day to day life, and increasingly a lot of the text that I read isn’t in the form of books. I will read as much as is fun to me :blush:

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#15

They are my goals for next year. I’m sure I will accomplish at least some of them.

Thank you.

I’m sure you will be there soon. I also want to get n1 one day but that will probably still take many years.

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#16

Goal for 2021 was to reach level 60, check.
Haven’t had any other goals this year.

Goals for 2022:

  • Finish 1 (light) novel
  • Finish 1 videogame
  • Finish the remaining chapters of Tobira
  • Take N3 in Dec 2022 (and hopefully pass)
  • do much more reading and vocab mining than 2021
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#17

Goals changed a lot during 2021.
A lot if them were unrealistic.

In 2022 I’ll take the N2 if I passed the N3

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#18

I didn’t have any set goals going into 2021, but here’s what I’ve achieved and am proud of this year:

  • Starting my first book, and now being able to read novels (albeit slowly).
  • Reaching Level 42 in WK (compared to Level 14 this time last year)
  • I am now totally confident with nearly all aspects of JLPT4.
  • I had my first tutor session for conversation practice in April this year, beginning with zero confidence in my speaking ability. Now I’m able to hold a simple conversation easily, and although I still struggle with more complicated subjects, I’ve definitely improved a lot.

So now, my Japanese goals for 2022:

  • Finish Kiki, and two or three other novels
  • Reach Level 60 in WK
  • Be able to pass N3 (preferably in July)
  • More focus on increasing vocabulary (learn 10 new words per day will be the goal for now)
  • Improve speaking ability — I’d like to be able to have comfortable, fluid conversation with almost anyone by the end of the year
Other goals for 2022
  • Be able to have a simple conversation in Chinese by the end of the year (I already have background knowledge but zero speaking ability)
  • Make exercise just simply part of my day
  • Improve time management skills and study practices (I would like to have consistent and effective study practices put in place before the end of 2022)
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#19

Well, I set some goals for 2021, but I couldn’t manage to accomplish most of them. I felt stressed and tired this whole year, and now I have more than 400 items to review and I’m stuck on level 27. :neutral_face:

I will set new goals for 2022, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to reach them because lately I’ve been suffering from anxiety attacks.

  • Finish the N4 and N3 grammar on Bunpro;
  • Finish Genki II and start Tobira;
  • Improve the listening and speaking;
  • Reach level 50 on WK;
  • Read 10 manga volumes;
  • Learn N3 vocabulary
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#20

I decided to start learning Japanese this year since I’ve settled in at my job and was now looking for something to do in my downtime that was unrelated. I found WK ~August or so.

2021 review:

  • :heavy_check_mark: Start grammar for Japanese and begin to develop some foundations for moving forward. Find learning resources, etc.
  • :heavy_check_mark: After starting WK, do it twice a day and complete all reviews. This started as completing everything each day, but as the levels have progressed I found it more manageable to keep the apprentice stage at approximately 100 items or so. But the review stack gets cleared each morning and evening. Toughest part was making it routine, but at this point it is just part of the day (0 days missed!)

Goals for 2022:

  • Continue the daily routine.
  • Tackle 1 manga by the end of the year.
  • Take serious steps to improve listening skills.

Thanks for being an awesome community all, and thanks WK for providing a great service. It has really made practice something to look forward to!

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#21

I just started the program so I don’t really know how to set any realistic concrete goals. Right now I’m joking with friends that I’m hoping to learn enough to be able to make sense of the menus at Chinese restaurants. But I do have one very simple goal:

Don’t give up!

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#22

I didn’t really have any specific goals for 2021 other than “get better” but I did just recently hit 60, and also took the N3 this year (which I’m pretty sure I was extremely overprepared for, and probably should’ve taken the N2). That said! Next year my goals are:

  • Finish learning the Jouyou kanji
  • Read 200 pages worth of novels/light novels every month
  • Start weaning myself off of SRS (less “huge decks,” more “adding in words as I find them”)
  • Focus more on my spoken Japanese (lots of shadowing, using a “language parent” to learn from, and studying pitch accent)
  • Take the N1 (might not work out, but I want to see if I can get there in a year)
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#23

I reset wanikani sometime last year after an almost 2yr hiatus stopping at level 22. I want to reach 30 before the end of next year at a minimum and if I’m luck I’ll hit level 40. I’ll hit 18 this week so I’m not too far off.

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#24

My goal for 2021 was to read 100 活字 books. (So, not manga)
If I allow up to 33% of 4koma in the content, I just reached 100 today.
If I limit myself to up to 20%, I only have 97, and at the strictest level, 96.
I want to count the one with some 4 koma (it’s about the 百人一首 and it was informative enough that I want to keep it in my Bookmeter), but I’d rather avoid the other 3 (first 3 volumes of うちの3姉妹, which is pretty fun, but very light in content).

Anyway, I still have a few days, so I may not need to lower my standards.

I do not know what I’ll do in 2022. I’m gonna go out on a limb and say that I’ll be reading some more.

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#25

I want to keep going, that’s technically it.
The joy of finally understanding something what has been said or being able to read a random kanji or even a sentence is amazing.

I started in the middle of this year and it’s been rough, but I managed to do at least 3-4 sessions a week on WK.

My goal for 2022 is to keep going the best I can and have lots of fun with the language.

PS: Akiramenaide, minna.

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#26

Finish Tobira, read books.

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#27

2021:

  • I wanted to go as far ahead in WK as I could.
  • I wanted to start tobira. I’m now at lesson 5.
  • I wanted to start taking lessons again after several years. I started a month ago and I’ve already taken 3 lessons.

I wasn’t the quickest learner in 2021, life was hectic and sometimes I only had time to do some of my reviews but I kept going and I’m happy about it…

2022

  • I want to continue taking lessons since I want to develop my talking skills.
  • reaching level 60 on WK.
  • listen to Japanese pod 101 intermediate contents and hopefully finishing it.
  • studying the remaining lessons of tobira.

I want to improve my grammar knowledge most of all (and getting to level 60). Also I’d like to be able to have meaningful conversations.

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#28

Started actually actively learning/studying Japanese pretty late this year because of my exams so I didn’t really set a lot of goals

2021 Goals

  1. Finish the whole series of Yotsubato :ballot_box_with_check: (But with the help of the WaniKani book club lol)

  2. Get started on WaniKani and finish all the free levels (currently in the middle of the last free level, I’ll hopefully finish my goal by this week)

  3. Find helpful resources that I can stick with through my Japanese learning journey

2022 Goals

  1. Reach at least level 48 in WaniKani

  2. Finish BunPro’s N5-N3 curriculum

  3. Finish 12 episodes of anime (aka. active listening)/ up my listening time

  4. Finish one light novel (currently looking at また、同じ夢を見てた, which I have been delaying for who knows how long)

  5. Finish 5 manga that is not targeted at children

  6. Make my own study log in WaniKani (keep a look out for it :eyes:)

Good luck everyone! :slight_smile:

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