What are your goals for Japanese in 2025?

Try the Absolute Beginners Book club on here. It’s called Absolute Beginners, but it’s more like Beginners. They’re currently reading Doraemon, but will be starting a new one soon. You can look at the past manga they’ve covered. It has notes on grammar and vocabulary. I’m a beginner, too. A few sites that are useful and free for reading practice are Tadoku.org , Watanoc.com , and NHK News Web Easy. Good luck with all of your studies :slight_smile:

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It’s from the grammar learning site BunPro c:

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I’m learning Japanese for fun, so there are no pressured timelines for me. What I would like to finish:

-reach Wanikani level 30

-finish the first five book in the みんなの日本語 Level One series (I’m currently at chapter 7 of 25).

-read along with the Absolute Beginners Book Club (Possibly Beginners).

-continue learning to write kanji

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Thank you!!! Good luck on your studies as well

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Thanks!!!

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I managed to get two grammar lessons done in January. That was one of my goals, to do at least two lessons in grammar a month. Now on to February!

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My only goal that I posted in this thread was to listen to something every day, and so far this January I have listened to something 25/31 days, which I feel good about.

However I lied, that wasn’t actually my only goal. I also made a goal to start a daily reading habit, and so far in January I read 16/31 days. That’s not too bad, but I’m going to aim for 21/28 days in February.

In the background I am also trying to learn a bit of Spanish, but I’ve been much less consistent with that, I only listened 12/31 days in January. I always feel so guilty spending time on Spanish, like I’m afraid if I let myself fall into learning it I’ll drop everything else. I don’t know if anyone else here is studying multiple languages, but if you are, I’m curious: do you find that you can spend time with both/all of them?

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I do study multiple languages. I have a few tricks to make this work.

First, I’m very selective about how many languages I try to juggle at one time. At the moment it’s just three: one aiming for progress, and two aiming for maintenance.

Second, when I’m going to learn multiple languages at the same time, I try to choose languages that are not closely related to each other. This helps to prevent interference between them.

Finally – my most successful trick – I try to translate my goals for each language into tiny sustainable mini-habits that require no decisions or will power to complete.

So, for example, to maintain Finnish, I slap on my headphones and listen to Selkouutiset (Finnish Easy News) while I eat breakfast. I don’t have to think about it; it just happens every morning.

I have a small pad to practice writing kanji placed strategically on a side table in a location that I often pass by. A few times a day I’ll stop and test myself on a few kanji from past levels of WaniKani. (I don’t have any need to write kanji, but I find it boosts my retention.)

I have a lot of these mini-habits, for various purposes (not just languages), and I find they help me avoid the sense of overwhelm and guilt I used to feel when I set overly ambitious goals for myself, which inevitably led to disappointment.

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