新 Monthly Progress Challenge

#PROGRESS POST #1:

#WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL:1

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 3! (Or at least still using this app, I’m terrible at commitment)

#GOALS

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

  • Stay consistent with reviews/lessons

  • Work on other aspects of Japanese

  • Find more outside resources

  • Don’t get lazy! Keep learning.

#RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

Does anime count

  • Wanikani /Duh/

  • Duolingo

  • LingoDeer

  • Memerise

  • Anki

  • A couple of textbooks

TRY NEW RESOURCE:

  • Genki Books

#JAPANESE ABILITY

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:

  • Honestly, all of it.

  • Especially kanji.

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:

  • Wanikani

  • I need to find more resources.

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:

  • Stick with it! It’ll take seemingly forever and will be pretty damn frustrating at times, but just keep going! Even if you’re progressing slower than you’d like, getting depressed about it isn’t going to help. (Yes, I’m telling this as much to myself as anyone who happens to be reading it)

  • HAVE FUN. Don’t turn learning into work when it doesn’t have to be. LEARNING CAN BE FUN. Make it fun.

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#PROGRESS POST #: 3

#WANIKANI

**CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: Level 5 (2 hours ago)

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 6+

#GOALS

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

I manage to get my reviews everyday, but not at the place I wanted to (again), just reach 5 instead of 6

**THIS MONTH’S GOAL:
Stay Strong

#RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

Still None at the moment except WK

  • FAVE: WaniKani
  • LEAST FAVE: /

TRY NEW RESOURCE: /

#JAPANESE ABILITY

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: /

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:
Work work Work & Focus

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Don’t give Up

Progress Post 3

WaniKani

Current Level

26

In one month, I hope to be level

30

Goals

Last month’s goal report

I didn’t learn much grammar. :frowning:

This month’s goal

Learn more grammar points, read more Satori Reader articles.

Resources

Current Japanese Resources

General Textbooks

  • 80/20 Japanese

Grammar

  • A Dictionary of Intermediate Japanese Grammar

Test Prep

  • 新完全マスター文法 日本語能力試験N4 (Shin Kanzen Master N4 Grammar)

Listening

  • Netflix
    • with Subtitles for netflix Chrome extension

Speaking

  • Audio clipped from dramas.

Reading

  • Satori Reader

Writing

  • KanjiStudy App

Vocabulary

  • KanjiStudy App
  • Jisho

Maintaining Motivation

Short-term motivation

I’m trying to make more Japanese friends.

Medium-term motivation

I need to be prepared for the JLPT N4 by December 2018.

Japanese Ability

Current Japanese Weakness

I don’t know enough vocabulary related to the kanji I am learning

How I will improve the above

I will spend more time reading common WWWJDIC vocab associated with each new kanji. And I’ll write a better script to help with this.

Helping Others

Tip/Advice for Learning Japanese

Read more.

#PROGRESS POST #: 9

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 23!
IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL: 25! Ok uhh I didn’t meet my goal of being level 24 last month and I actually just leveled up. But I’ll do better. probably.

#GOALS:
LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT: “I’m going to try picking up Genki again.”
hahaha.
I didn’t do that oops.

THIS MONTH’S GOAL: My goal is to pick up Genki again. Literally. Pick up and open the book. That is my goal. This won’t be too hard.

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES: WaniKani, KaniWani, Memrise, Genki (hahaha). I completely forgot Yotsuba existed and I neglected reading for the last month. I realized that the problem here most of the time is that I keep forgetting my goals… so I’m going to put them on a sticky note on my desktop! Then I’ll be reminded every time I open my laptop.
Also, I’ve been reading Japanese wherever I find it. If I come across a random article about fish in Japanese I am going to try and read it.

FAVE: KW? I whittled down all the reviews and lessons and stuff’s going good.
LEAST FAVE: Genki.
TRY NEW RESOURCE: This isn’t really a “new” resource but I should really start regularly reading Yotsuba again. So I’ll try.

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#PROGRESS POST #: 7

#WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 29

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 32

#GOALS

LAST “couple” of MONTH’S GOAL REPORT :sweat_smile::

  • In May I totally was overwhelmed by WK and Anki reviews… so I did one month pause, and kept doing only reviews while not adding any lesson. I reached level 26 though :sweat_smile:, so I’m checking that box :white_check_mark:
    Then after one month I slowly started with new less ons both in WK and ANki, but at a slower pace

  • Reading: well I’ve actually readed a lot. I started an account in Bookmeter and while I’m still pending to finish the last volume of Graded Readers 3 (Ask collection), I managed to read the 10分で読める伝記 1年生 book.
    Now I’m going parallel. Reading both the last of my graded readers and the 10分で読める伝記 series. Each has it’s own difficulties, but are equally enjoyable. So I’ll check that box too :white_check_mark:

  • Japanese the Manga Way: while still a great reading , I haven’t been too regular. Since I’m learning my grammar on the fly while reading and review it later with the sentence mining routine… well this seems like and extra step, fun as it is, but no necessary to progress in grammar, so, no … I’m yet to read more of this wonderful resource :negative_squared_cross_mark:

  • Getting 90% accuracy in writing kanji up to level 18… not… I dropped the constant kanji writing practice… so far I’m only writing kanji as I do new lessons… in the future I think I will try Skritter and start writing entire words and not just single kanjis… meanwhile that goes :negative_squared_cross_mark:

  • Buying tickets to Japan, September 2018. Yeah baby!! Sure thing :white_check_mark::hugs:

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

  • Keep reading. Last month was my best month in terms of reading. 325 pages :nerd_face: … Hopefully I will be able to keep a count of around 300 pages per month.

  • Immersion. Well, it’s a tricky thing immersion. There’re a couple of series that I’m using for active immersion (watching once with j-subs, then eng-subs) that later goes to passive immersion (Mp3 listening while commuting).
    This weekend I’ll be finishing the first show after like 4 months of starting with it ( I don’t know why it has taken my that long actually, I guess I really like to chew and digest the content that every episode has). It’s Usagi Drop (I highly recommend it), and I really love it :star_struck::star_struck:. I realize now that I get most of the dialogues while listening, and I’m able to watch it in j-subs getting most of the plot. That only 4 months after continuously listening the same episodes and reviewing many of that lines in my sentence mining routine, but even so, it’s incredible noticing that I understood about 20% of the show when I started with the first episodes and now I can watch it with out the re-run with eng-subs (though I’m too compelled still to see what I might have missed) … :slightly_smiling_face:
    So my goal it’s to find now another show to do the same process. This kind of immersion it’s a slow process. Going from understading a bit… to a bit more… to most of it… after lots of rewatching and constant listening.

  • I went monolingual!! Gradually I’m making my vocab deck show my the definitions in japanese only. So I no longer have the english version of the word at hand, but the japanese definition, which sometimes narrow the term more than the english tranlation did. Now whenever I add a new vocab, I check for the deffinition in my collection of j-dictionaries. And so far 9/10 times I get a deffinition I’m able to understand (sometimes they come with synonim / antonym as well). I’m really excited to see how gradually I’m not relying I english anymore (not my L1 either), since going from japanese to sometimes an english word that I wasn’t too familiar was messing up things sometimes.

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

  • WK for kanji

  • Anki with this Subs2SRS / Morphman routine for vocab and context sentence mining

  • Graded Readers Level 3 (finishing) and the 10分で読める伝記 series (starting) for reading.

  • Netflix for active immersion and MP3 player for passive immersion.

  • Japanese the Manga Way as cover to cover reading.

  • Grammar references: The Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate Japanese Grammar, and my favorite one: A Handbook of Japanese Grammar Patterns for Teachers and Learners.

  • Extra: Cure Dolly’s videos and messaging (on Patreon) for doubts

FAVE:
Reading and immersion with shows… there’s nothing better than see those kanjis and japanese happening in some actual material, no longer related to any learning platform.

TRY NEW RESOURCE:

  • I’m reading Japanese Sentence Patterns for effective communication from cover to cover as a refresh before going to Japan next month, so far it’s very practical . Very straight to the point.

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:
Check your skills every now and then and put your self out there. After all the kanji, vocab, grammar studying, you actually get better and new and more enjoyable activities become possible. So seek for those, as eventually those will keep japanese a enjoyable activity.

PROGRESS POST #5:
3.8.2018 (first one-month-period after coming back to WK and the monthly challenges)

:bird: WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 29

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 30

:bird: PROGRESS REPORT:
Previous report: Progress post 4

  1. Level goal: Reach level 29 :white_check_mark:
  2. Grammar: Diligent study of upper-mid Japanese class material :x:
    –> final exam target: > 89/100 (mid-term result: 75/100) :x:
    :grey_exclamation: Failed to even attend the final exam.
  3. 外大の日本語5 material onward independently (but no specific chapter goal) :ballot_box_with_check:
  4. Kanji : WaniKani review queue down to “natural” level -eg. no accumulated reviews due to prolonged absence. :x:
    :grey_exclamation: Still at around 600
  5. Reading : NHK news, Yahoo News, articles… not interesting. :ballot_box_with_check:
    –> actually short 小説, as found in here , for example.
    :grey_exclamation: Kind of compeleted! Been reading random articles as I stumble across them, on top of hoarding novels from Book-off. No internet short stories on the “completed” list.
  6. Vocabulary: Pick up new words diligently from read materials and REVIEW!
    (use memrise to create private course for the new vocab?) :x:

What happened:
So I THOUGHT I would be able to invest in Japanese studies, since I finally cleared all my deadlines. How wrong I was! After a week or so of blissfully slowly paced life, I was attacked by a second wave of tasks, deadlines and supervisors breathing down my neck waiting for results.


:bird: THIS MONTH’S GOALS:

  1. Grammar + vocab - 外大の日本語5 material onward independently (but no specific chapter goal)
  2. Kanji : WaniKani review queue down to “natural” level -eg. no accumulated reviews due to prolonged absence - second try.

This month will be consumed with fieldwork preparations and all things related, so I have no way of putting effort into rigorous Japanese studies. Still need to at least maintain, so still some goals to strive for this time, too.


:bird: RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:
Kanji/vocab : WaniKani, (KaniWani)
Textbook: 中級を学ぼう・後学期(上中級日本語)
Speaking/Listening: Japanese bf (irregular), friends and colleagues in Japan (regular)
Reading : 小説、記事、新聞?
Dictionaries : Jisho.org, Rikai-sama
Writing : -

POTENTIAL NEW RESOURCES: JLPT review sites? アルク? Memrise custom vocab courses

RESOURCES ON HOLD: lang-8

:bird: JAPANESE ABILITY

Subjective: Hovering just below N2? Waiting impatiently for last month’s exam results!
Objective: Recent J-cat score at 235, with listening as hands down strongest area.

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:
limited vocab (also grammar, but concentrating on one thing for now)

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:
Cram that vocab

:bird: HELPING OTHERS

Make mistakes often and readily (and correct them /get them corrected)
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#PROGRESS POST #2:

#WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 05

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 8!

#GOALS

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

  • Reach level 3 :heavy_check_mark:

  • Stay consistent with reviews/lessons :heavy_check_mark:

  • Work on other aspects of Japanese :heavy_check_mark:

  • Find more outside resources :heavy_check_mark:

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

  • Stay caught up with reviews/lessons < School may be starting soon, but that’s not an excuse to get lazy.

  • Do Memrise and Genki lessons everyday

  • Find some kind of outside reading material

#RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

  • Wanikani /Duh/

  • Duolingo

  • LingoDeer

  • Memrise

  • Anki

  • A couple of textbooks < Finally got Genki as well

#JAPANESE ABILITY

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:

  • Vocab/Grammar/Kanji < Basically everything

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:

  • Stay caught up with Wanikani lessons/reviews

  • Do Genki lessons

  • Do Memrise lessons

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:

  • Don’t push yourself and get burned out, but don’t get lazy either! The language isn’t going to learn itself if you want to get anywhere, put some effort in!
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PROGRESS POST #3 (08/08/18):

#WANIKANI :crocodile: :crab:

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 18

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL: 20

#GOALS :crossed_flags:

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

I haven’t reached my goal at all. There were various reasons for it. One of them was that I was dealing with alot of stress (Uni, work etc)

In the end I’m really thankful that I went through that tough segment of my life and came out stronger.

So yeah to summarize it; いろいろあったけど、もとに戻った。

I plan to get back on track and be better than before.

These are the steps I made towards zero reviews and lessons. I’m still at it though :sweat_smile:

THIS MONTH’S GOAL :trophy: :

Reach level 20 on WK and adjust to my new routine.

#RESOURCES🌸

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

Wanikani, Kitsun , Billingual News, Pimsleur & Japanese Ammo with Misa

FAVE👍🏾:

All because I use them

LEAST FAVE👎🏾:

None because I stopped using resources that I don’t like.

TRY NEW RESOURCE:

N/A

#JAPANESE ABILITY :japan::japanese_castle:

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:

Grammar

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:

Getting more consistent with doing with Japanese Ammo with Misa lessons.

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:

I’m finally back!!

After a small hiatus it feels good to study Japanese again.

These months teached me alot of different things.

One of the most important lesson for me was that in every bad situation there is still something good and vise versa.

It’s true that I almost completely stopped studying Japanese. But because I build a study routine I still used some resources here and there (especially Billingual News).

In the end I really noticed how valuable it is to study languages in general.

So long story short; from here on out I want to proceed further and want to reach at least level 30 by the end of this year.

I’m planning on going to Japan next year for vacation. Until then I want to improve my skills.

I wanted to thank @Yoroshi , @hinekidori and @neicul .

@hinekidori helped me alooot with setting up my anki decks. I’m thankful that he always was ready help and provide advice when it was necessary. His decks helped me bust my leeches and to get a steady pace on wanikani. After I transfered his decks to Kitsun it went smoother for me.

@neicul was also very helpful as always and I’m grateful for his app called kitsun.

@Yoroshi gave me helpful advice for my studies as well.

I’m thankful that I got to know so many people through my Japanese studies.
And I feel good that I can continue from now on.

全力で行くぞ!!

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#PROGRESS POST #1:

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: Completed 12 and just started learning 13 today - I am so relieved to have got Level 12 out of the way. My worst yet!

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL…16 completed (so do 13, 14, 15 and 16 by Sunday 9 September).

#GOALS
LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT: -

THIS MONTH’S GOAL: Level 16 and still keep up with the day job!

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES: Wanikani and Tsurukame for offline use.

TRY NEW RESOURCE: Tsurukame to monitor progress - am loving the graphs

#JAPANESE ABILITY
CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: Just keeping up with the routine. Also need to learn more vocab soon. Aim to revisit Japan in April 2020 and want to be back to conversational fluency by then. I have the rusty grammar in my brain from years ago. Need to get the average level up down from 20+ days to 7-10 days to hit this target.

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE: Just keep learning the Kanji to level 30 then start some beginner reading and NHK pages.

#HELPING OTHERS
TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Keep up the pace, mix in some grammar and vocab.

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#PROGRESS POST #1:

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 5
IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 9

#GOALS
LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT: -
THIS MONTH’S GOAL: Finish practicing writing Hiragana and Katakana

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES: WaniKani… yeah that’s it

  • FAVE: WaniKani :innocent:
  • LEAST FAVE: WaniKani because I have no other options

TRY NEW RESOURCE: At this point anything I try will be extremely helpful

#JAPANESE ABILITY
CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: Everything :B
HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE: Hopefully, with time and practice.

#HELPING OTHERS
TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Pretend you’re a really angry japanese man and start screaming japanese words you have trouble remembering, this (probably) helps your pronunciation and it also (probably) helps you memorize it too.

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#PROGRESS POST #: 4

#WANIKANI

**CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: Level 6

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 7

#GOALS

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

Still manage to do my reviews everyday, but Still not at the place I wanted to (again)

**THIS MONTH’S GOAL:
Stay Strong, maybe do a bit more work when I can ( but that’s my main roblm find time to work on it

#RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

Still None at the moment except WK

  • FAVE: WaniKani
  • LEAST FAVE: /

TRY NEW RESOURCE: /

#JAPANESE ABILITY

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: /

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:
Work work Work

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Don’t give Up

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#Progress post #: 10! (wow)

#WaniKani
Current WaniKani Level: 25
In one month I hope to be level: 28

#Goals
Last month’s goal report: “to literally pick up Genki”. Well I did! And I ended up finishing the 9th chapter and all of the workbook questions up to there. I also managed to get 0/0. Today is a good day. Also, I didn’t really follow my schedule for reading Yotsuba but I read it every once in a while.

This month’s goal: I want to finish chapters 10-11 of Genki and all of the workbook exercises there too. I’m planning on finishing chapter 10 this week. I also need to continue with my Memrise lessons to learn the Genki vocab which I’ve been kinda neglecting.

#Resources
Current Japanese resources: WK, KW, Memrise, Genki, Yotsuba
Fave: WK
Least fave: KW
Try new resource: I downloaded Houhou because I’ve heard good things about it, so from now on that’s going to be my dictionary.woo

#PROGRESS POST #: 1

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 19

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL…; 22

#GOALS
LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

This is my first time doing this.

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:
Keep up with wanikani, floflo and book clubs,

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:
floflo.moe
Wanikani
Lots of manga

FAVE: Can't choose one
LEAST FAVE: Can't choose one

TRY NEW RESOURCE: No

#JAPANESE ABILITY
CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: Vocab
HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE: Learn words
#HELPING OTHERS
TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Keep studying

PROGRESS POST #6! (I’m on a roll :star_struck:):
4.8.2018

:bird: WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 29

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 30


:bird: PROGRESS REPORT:
Previous report: Progress post 5

1, Level goal: Reach level 30 :x:

21

I was so close!!! If I had 2 more days, I would’ve levelled up:

24

  1. Grammar + vocab - 外大の日本語5 material onward independently :white_check_mark:
  2. Kanji : WaniKani review queue down to “natural” level -eg. no accumulated reviews due to prolonged absence - second try. :white_check_mark: YES! I made it down to zero! Finally!

:star: EXTRA: Reading : Although this wasn’t in my original goals, I did manage to read a 239 page book from start to finish. Way to go me! (笑)

What happened:
My workload estimation for this month was much more accurate than before. I can’t say that I’m making huge progress, but still… it’s better than nothing. Being able to finish the book was a big surprise!


:bird: THIS MONTH’S GOALS:

  1. Grammar + vocab - 外大の日本語5 material onward independently (but no specific chapter goal)

This month will be even busier than the one before, which is why I’m dropping the goals to a super lax pace. Also, the month after the current one will be spent away from Japan, WaniKani and anything related to the language, so I’ll probably report back after 2 months. Hoping to clear “extra” goals during the time, like I did this time.


:bird: RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:
Kanji/vocab : WaniKani, (KaniWani)
Textbook: 中級を学ぼう・後学期(上中級日本語)
Speaking/Listening: Japanese bf (irregular), friends and colleagues in Japan (regular)
Reading : 小説 (All hail the amazing book resources at BOOK-OFF!)
Dictionaries : Jisho.org, Rikai-sama
Writing : -

POTENTIAL NEW RESOURCES: JLPT review sites? アルク? Memrise custom vocab courses

RESOURCES ON HOLD: lang-8


:bird: JAPANESE ABILITY

Recent J-cat score at 235, with listening as hands down strongest area.

Passed JLPT N2 just last month, with again listening as clearly the best area.

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:
limited vocab (also grammar, but concentrating on one thing for now)

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:
Cram that vocab


:bird: HELPING OTHERS

Make mistakes often and readily (and correct them /get them corrected)
Talk every chance you get.
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#PROGRESS POST #1:

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 5

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 9 (I think this is accurate)

#GOALS
THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

Building more diverse habits: more regular use of textbook, reading materials, shadowing

Continuing with what I have: progressing through reading materials, reading the news, do my reviews, continue patching fundamental weaknesses

Grammar: Get all N5 into BunPro

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

FAVE: WaniKani, TangoRisto
LEAST FAVE: Don't have one right now

Textbook: Genki II
Kanji: WaniKani (KaniWani)
Vocab: Core 10k Anki deck
Listening: heterogeneous mix of anime and audio exercises/deck
Reading: TangoRisto, graded readers, manga
Grammar: Bunpro, A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar
Other reference material I use a lot: Tsukuba Corpus, ejje.weblio.jp, goo, Jisho radical search, Tae Kim’s Guide to Japanese, Maggie Sensei

TRY NEW RESOURCE:
Shadowing: Let’s Speak Japanese! (Beginner - Intermediate Level) - I have this, I need to open it

#JAPANESE ABILITY
CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: Vocabulary and listening - WK is patching up the kanji weakness. Speaking

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE: Actually doing my 10k, continuing with WaniKani, using my listening resources when I have the time to, long-term introduce much more listening as situation improves. Shadowing while looking for time/space to practise speaking on the fly
#HELPING OTHERS
TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Write (compose) as well as read, it challenges you differently! I learned a lot just by wanting to learn how to express ideas properly.

#PROGRESS POST #: 8
#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 32
IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 33
#GOALS
LAST MONTH GOAL REPORT :

  • :white_check_mark: Reached my set goal in WK, doing about 3 review sessions per day until level 32. Now enjoying a well deserved trip to Japan, I’ve put WK on vacation mode. When I’m back I think I’ll change my approach regarding WK, mainly focusing on learning kanji on it, but throwing whatever vocab it offers into my Anki vocab / sentence mining routine, so dedicated time on WK will be less now :sweat_smile:. … gradually I’ve been adjusting WK to my liking. In the end it’s a tool so I have no issue with having a pile of undone reviews if that serves the porpuse of allowing time to read and listening more.

  • Reading: :white_check_mark: I did the same 335 pages on my Bookmeter account last month, maybe a bit more even, but the extra pages won’t be registered until I finish my current book. So this time I finished the 10分で読める伝記 2年生 book and the Ask Japanese Graded Reader Level 3 Vol. 3. I already bought the rest of the series for the 10分で読める伝記 collection, same for the Graded readers series…. I’m set for quite some time now.

  • Immersion: :sparkle: I did some shows dubbed (Harry Potter, Dragon Ball, and then some others), and the the whole passive MP3 routine with the audio of those. I’m still to find that show to slowly tackle as I did with Usagi Drops.

  • Japanese the Manga Way: :x: so, I’m not reading it much actually. Its fun though, but spending time reading has become a better investment lately.

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

  • Keep reading. Same amount would be okay. This moth there’re lots of trains to take, airplanes, etc…. Hopefully some of those will account for reading time.

  • Immersion. Well, I’m doing passive immersion a lot… now in Japan maybe even more. As for doing the whole routine with a show, still I haven’t started with it, that will be when I’m back home from vacations, for now I will keep the passive immersion and all the exposure I could get from being in Japan this month.

  • Monolingual routine: both the Anki vocab routine and gradually the sentence mining routine have become monolingual. I’m actually having fun adding more and more vocab to my deck, as now many words come as synonyms of some other words. The context it’s crucial, I’ll remember words much better when the exposition to those words came for example in a book or show, then if it came from WK or a part of a definition of another word I most likely will need a sentence from my shows to put it quickly into use. And now during this trip in Japan if it’s a word a got to use, some one explained to me and there’s a situation I can relate to, the it’s much more cemented. The goal would be maintaining the routine while traveling (I’m doing reviews before starting with the rest of the day). Hopefully I won’t have a backlog of reviews on my return :sweat_smile:.

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:
WK for kanji (vocab from WK will go to Anki an the whole SRS thingie it’s happening there now)
Anki with this Subs2SRS / Morphman routine for vocab and context sentence mining now almost exclusively in japanese
Reading now the Lets Read Japanese Graded Readers Level 2 (similar to level 3 in both Ask and Taishukan series), Taishukan Graded Readers Level 3 and the 10分で読める伝記 3年生.
Netflix for active immersion and MP3 player for passive immersion.
Japanese the Manga Way as cover to cover reading.
Grammar references: The Dictionary of Basic/Intermediate Japanese Grammar, and my favorite one: A Handbook of Japanese Grammar Patterns for Teachers and Learners.
Extra: Cure Dolly’s videos and messaging (on Patreon) for doubts
FAVE: Reading and Japanese Netflix for immersion, monolingual Anki routine.

TRY NEW RESOURCE:
Going to Japan has been a great resource …. Japanese been used regularly has been a great experience so far.:hugs:

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Don’t focus too much on studying japanese; it’s a language, use it, read, listen, talk if you want… in any case, don’t let learning a language become only learning; enjoy things in the language, and the whole routine you do make it enjoyable, or at least gradually more enjoyable :wink:.

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#PROGRESS POST #:3

#WANIKANI

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 08

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 11!

#GOALS

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

  • Reach level 8 :white_check_mark:
  • Stay caught up with reviews/lessons < School may be starting soon, but that’s not an excuse to get lazy. :white_check_mark:
  • Do Memrise and Genki lessons everyday :ballot_box_with_check:
  • Find some kind of outside reading material :x:

THIS MONTH’S GOAL:

  • Same as last month, except I want to be level 11.

#RESOURCES

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

  • Wanikani /Duh/
  • Duolingo
  • LingoDeer
  • Memrise
  • Anki
  • A couple of textbooks < Finally got Genki as well
  • パルク先生

#JAPANESE ABILITY

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:

  • Vocab/Grammar/Kanji < Basically everything

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:

  • Stay caught up with Wanikani lessons/reviews
  • Do Genki lessons
  • Do Memrise lessons

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:

  • Slow and steady wins the race. がんばって!
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PROGRESS POST #3 (10/10/18):

#WANIKANI# :crocodile: :crab:

CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 20

IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL: 22

#GOALS# :crossed_flags:

LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT:

I reached the goal I set for myself. I’m so happy!! :grin: after that long hiatus It feels good to pick up the pace again.

#THIS MONTH’S GOAL# :trophy:

Reach level 22 on WK and start adding reading to my routine (graded readers, children’s books etc)

#RESOURCES# :cherry_blossom:

CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES:

Wanikani, Kaniwani, Kitsun , Billingual News, Pimsleur & Japanese Ammo with Misa, reading resources

FAVE👍🏾:

All because I use them

LEAST FAVE👎🏾:

None because I stopped using resources that I don’t like.

TRY NEW RESOURCE:

Start using reading material

#JAPANESE ABILITY# :jp: :japanese_castle:

CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS:

Grammar

HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE:

Continue using Japanese Ammo with Misa lessons. I already feel improvement in that area.

#HELPING OTHERS

TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE:

After a month of getting back into I can just say it’s a good feeling to learn Japanese again.

As an advice I can just say that you should have a good routine that fits YOU.
Choose something you can study best with and that fits in your life.
Try to do it consistently and you’ll see the results soon.

みんな頑張って!! :v:t5:

This thread gotta be one of the most inspiring threads i’ve seen
:slight_smile:

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#PROGRESS POST #2:

#WANIKANI
CURRENT WANIKANI LEVEL: 9
IN ONE MONTH I HOPE TO BE LEVEL… 16 (next progress post on november)

#GOALS
LAST MONTH’S GOAL REPORT: I didn’t even try to practice writing, wow i suck, oh well at least I made it to level 9
THIS MONTH’S GOAL: for now, just don’t give up

#RESOURCES
CURRENT JAPANESE RESOURCES: WaniKani… yeah that’s (still) it

  • FAVE: WaniKani :innocent:
  • LEAST FAVE: WaniKani because I have no other options

TRY NEW RESOURCE: I plan on going through a couple of free grammar guides online in a few months, not doing that any time soon though

#JAPANESE ABILITY
CURRENT JAPANESE WEAKNESS: Everything :B
HOW I WILL IMPROVE ABOVE: Hopefully, with time and practice.

#HELPING OTHERS
TIP/ADVICE FOR LEARNING JAPANESE: Remember it’s not a race. Unless it is a race.