Building a good study plan

Japanese
#22

I think the best advice is that it’s okay to take it easy—if you feel overwhelmed by studying, stop adding new concepts for a few days (or even weeks). Keep up your study routine and when you feel motivated again, you can start adding new words and so on.

Don’t get caught up in the performative spirale and think, “Since I said I’d learn x new words a day, x grammar points a day, I have to stick to it no matter what!!” You need to go at your own pace and listen to your body when it needs to slow down!!

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#23

What I was doing is adding cards as I meet them, but now I just highlight words I’m interested in, and when I return to them after a week, I understand that I have no trouble with some of them already, other I just don’t know really well, and some a right there.

But I stoped doing Anki so even if I do that I don’t add anything

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#24

That actually sounds like a good filter :smiley: waiting a week tells you which words really need attention instead of turning every unknown into an Anki card.

For the ones that are still “right there” after a week, what do you do now? Just leave them highlighted, or do you keep the original sentence/context somewhere so you can come back to it without starting another review queue?

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#25

Unfortunately I still don’t have any idea on how to work with them, mainly because I don’t have a fully working unified workflow, I would read on different sources, and a lot of time just read without highlight words.

I actually had so many ideas on what to do with them, that I couldn’t choose and go with one. Of course if I did Anki that would have solved the problem, but get tired of it really quickly so I stoped. I also read on my iPad, and it’s not comfortable to get them to Anki from there

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