What does your typical study session look like? How has it evolved?

Japanese Language
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Hi!

So I started learning japanese a week ago. I got genki I through my italki teacher and we’re doing one chapter a week.
Basically I study 20 vocabs a day with quizlet until I finish the vocabs section. I use anki when I’m done with quizlet. I hop on grammar on the second day. I keep the textbook exercises for my italki teacher and do the worbook exercises by myself.

As for wk I do:
9AM lesson (+ review if I have some) (i’m an early bird)
1PM review
9PM review

Even though it’s probably useless, I watch Chi without subs. I don’t if it’s a great practice but I really liked reading Chi when I was younger and didn’t even know it was Japanese back then.

I’m thinking of keeping this study session for a month or two and then change it a bit.

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Wanikani three times a day.

Japan TV on in the background when I’m cooking.

Reading before I go to bed.

Pretty simple. :wink:

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wake up, do reviews on phone, still in bed. generally about 70 reviews. actually get pretty decent accuracy on those, brain is fresh and not distracted ^^

get up, coffee, lessons (about 20 a day). on the laptop now, tried lessons un the phone (tsurukame), they didn’t gel. lessons are hard, 20 lessons can easily take half an hour.

later, first review, quick session, just the new items and ones which dropped down. maybe 25 reviews. low accuracy, but that’s okay, it’s the first review.

late/maybe 2 hours before bedtime, buckle down for main review session. generally well over 100 items, this takes considerable time. have started splitting this into two sessions of 60 or so items, with a short break (e.g. an episode of whatever anime i’m watching) inbetween). doing over 100 reviews at a time was a little much.

i’ve also added kamesame to my routine, only reverse WK items above guru, that’s about half an hour at whatever time. and maybe a session with the leech squasher, but i don’t seem to have all that many leeches.

besides that, i don’t currently do any formal studying. but i read an hour or so most days. watch several episodes of anime (with english subtitles, i’ve tried turning them off, but i’m not quite there yet). a bit of youtube or news. discussions here.

it adds up to 2-3 hours actual studying, and several hours of media. but i’ve got a lot of time on my hands, so it helps to keep busy ^^

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Currently, I mostly stick to this schedule.

Wanikani, every day:

  • 1 batch of lessons (5-10) + reviews in the morning
  • reviews at lunch
  • 1 batch of lessons (5-10) + reviews in the evening

Study sessions with a friend, 3 times/week, around 2 hours long:

  • Go over a new chapter in our textbook + quiz style exercises or watch a couple of grammar-focused videos
  • Watch 30 to 60 minutes of native content without subs (optional)

Homework for each study session:

  • Exercises that go over old or newly learnt material
  • 40 to 60 minutes’ worth of watching material.
  • 1 hour’s worth of reading practice (mostly short stories)
  • Extra: in-depth but very specific grammar or vocabulary dives. Either in article or video format. (optional)
  • Extra: sentence writing practice (optional)
  • Extra: review of old chapters or grammar points (optional)
  • Extra: articles or videos about Japan’s history and culture (optional)

Aside from that, I do some extra immersion (reading and watching) at my own discretion.

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No structure, no schedule. I just get to my stuff when I feel like it. Did about 75 or so lessons on the Japanese From Zero on yt a long time ago, and thinking about coming back to finish the series before I start my tes5 playthrough around the time I hit ~30lvl (it has to appear on sale on steam though). Overall I try to avoid greenhouse conditions when learning, because I find those hard to move away from at times. I’d rather put my energy into learning stuff than spend it on forming habits and then getting rid of them.

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Once a day Wanikani (all reviews and lessons at once)
Once a week Bunpro (reviews and a few lessons per week)
The rest whenever I want it. There’s always some Japanese game/VN I’m into. Sometimes books/manga when I feel like it.

I’m taking it slow. No need to rush.

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I used to only do WK and a few grammar points per week with an NHK easy article per day.

Nowadays i´m done with grammar and my kanji memorization skillzz have gotten more efficient, so i´m currently doing one book chapter per day as well as an episode´s worth of listening practice alongside my WK studies.
I´m also doing a lot of Anki because my vocab is lacking behind.

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I definitely use the “a little bit of everything each day” approach:

  • Wani Kani in the morning, about 30 - 45 minutes.
  • read a few pages of a book, looking up what I don’t know. I can recommend some books if anyone’s interested.
  • taking a weekly college online course to work through Genki I and II. This is also good conversation practice.
  • also using ToKini Andy Patreon lessons to reinforce Genki and eventually Quartet. Recommended!
  • weekly Japanese MeetUp to talk to people. Very grateful for this! It’s in-person and in my neighborhood.
  • tons of watching and listening to YouTube and Netflix, without subtitles or with Japanese subtitles.
  • reading manga (with furigana) without a dictionary, not worrying about what I don’t understand.
  • Wani Kani last thing at night, about 30 - 45 minutes.
  • finally, I listen to a ton of Japanese music. I think Kaneko Ayano is the greatest songwriter in the world and have learned a lot of her songs. I put some covers up on YouTube and it’s been a great way to communicate with people. If you can find a band or artist you like, looking up the lyrics and learning them can be fun and another way to learn vocabulary.

I love Wani Kani. So glad it exists. Before I found it, I absolutely could not make any progress with kanji. I use it as the only SRS in my study routine. Everything else I am trying to learn from pure immersion and repetition. Maybe when I’m Level 60 with Wani Kani I will spend more time with Anki, but I have never been able to get in a groove with it.

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reading some schedules here I feel now the laziest student :pensive:

I do basically WK some reviews in the morning after 8am, then around 1 pm I do the next batch.

At night if my apprentice items are below 100 I just do some lessons to fill the 100. That’s it.

Using shirimono srs for grammar, I do some reviews, but most of the time I get 30% accurate there now, my head is confusing a lot of grammar points after checking N5 to N2.

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