Checked back on last years thread to see what I put as my goals and they are kind of amusing in how I ended up ditching pretty much every tool or learning resource I mentioned, but I guess I’d only just started learning haha.
My 2021 goals were:
• finish lingodeer Japanese 1&2 ( + review points on bunpro and read through Tae Kim alongside)
I ditched lingodeer, and didn’t really use Tae Kim or bunpro…but I ended up covering N5/N4/N3 grammar via a combo of Jalup + reading a lot so I’ll count this as a pass…kind of. Lingodeer was good for the early stages I think, don’t regret starting with it but also don’t regret moving on to other resources.
• finish pimsleur audio lessons up to end of level 4 (level 5 might be possible at my current speed (I’m 2/3 through level 2 rn but expect may need to repeat more as gets more advanced)
Again, I stopped using pimsleur way before I got to this point, moving to watching shows no subs/podcasts/shadowing materials for building listening skills.
• WK to level 35
Lol, noticing a pattern here? I’m also no longer actively using WK. From the point I started reading more, I started feeling less interested in learning lists of words that weren’t linked to the things I actually want to read. It might be that I come back at some point in the future should I feel like kanji start becoming an obstacle (I’m hoping that I can avoid this and just learn through vocab but I guess we will see).
• read something in Japanese every day (can be manga, a game etc etc) - I’d like to have read at least 3 manga in 2021
Now here is one I actually did! According to my bookmeter, I read 34 manga and 2 novels so far in 2021. I’ve also spent quite a bit of time this year playing games in Japanese (mainly ace attorney and tokimeki memorial GS4) buuut I’m terrible at ever completing games even in english. I credit the read everyday challenges on these forums to really helping me to increase the pace of my reading. I love reading in japanese 
• take part in local (online for now due to covid) Japanese class (starting Jan) - either continue on with further blocks or move to iTalki
I took part in this class, it wasn’t great, so I did move to lessons on iTalki which I have been doing on a more or less weekly basis for most of this year and really enjoying. My production skills lag way behind my comprehension but are slowly improving I think!
Goals for 2022:
What I think I have learned from last years goals and how inaccurate they are is that I probably shouldn’t be too specific, so…
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Keep reading! Specifically, I would like to get more comfortable reading novels. I’m thinking that I would quite like to read at least 12 novels next year…however this isn’t a hard goal as I do want to keep the freedom to read what I’m enjoying in the moment and also I’ve learned from last year that setting ‘number of things read/done/etc’ goals is hard when you are still building up speed/stamina in things.
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Comfy goal - pass N3! Stretch goal - pass N2! I’m currently studying N3 (using Quartet & Shin Kanzen Master) to hopefully sit N3 in the summer if it runs. N2 by the end of the year seems like a big stretch but worst thing that happens is that I fail/decide to postpone and still learn a lot so why not try?
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Improve production skills…maybe? I might try and shift my attention to this at the end of next year as I’m doing some preliminary planning to go on a trip to Japan early 2023.
So those are my rough goals for this year! Good luck to everyone else with yours!
And to be honest, I think I’ve done pretty well for myself in that regard. I’ve gathered the strength to return after multiple month long breaks to sift through >1000reviews and >600lessons. I’ve even succesfully managed to get myself into a solid study routine in the past few weeks, so I think I will now be capable of going at a steady pace in the future.
very recently (2,5 mo ago) so I haven’t had any goal for this year. I was basically trying to figure out if it would be something that I might get to like.
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