Am i expecting too much?

Yeah, eventually you need to get that N5 material on lock.

I’ve picked an amount of reviews I’d like to do per day (for me, 40-50), and I only add more grammar points when my actual reviews are dipping below that.

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And perhaps balance with other study activities… e.g. my current daily thresholds:

— 70 Anki reviews (mix of sentences/vocabulary/Kanji/pitch-accent oriented cards )
— 25 WaniKani (know these generally, but review and furigana integration with BunPro)
— 10 BunPro

When I drop before a threshold, then I add more. I will shift more from the top toward the bottom over time, but I consider this “foundations” study, and try to keep my time in this to below 90 minutes (eventually to a 60 minute target) and the rest of my time on “output” or “using the language” oriented things (I live in Tokyo).

Everyone, to a degree, learns in our own way, the trick is figuring out the techniques that work best for our style. The above is just what seems to work best for me at the moment.

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