Have you done your BunPro Review today?

[MissDagger]

I’m only just now coming out of a slow down that started in mid-December. Sure, I kept up with BP and managed to do all lessons to finish N5 through January and half February, but WK slowed to a crawl. I haven’t touch KW since new years. And only just added Torii because I wanted to finish off N5 vocab.

What I’m trying to say is that if you are tired, it is fine, maybe even good, to slow down for a bit. Keep up with reviews and maybe only add lessons on your current priority (I focused on adding BP lessons for example).

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Yesterday I did all reviews (BP, WK, and Torii). Added 15 WK lessons (6 kanji, 9 vocab) and around 10ish Torii lessons. I’m already up to almost 100 “apprentice” items on Torii and I think I’ll make sure to never go above that. Reviews on Torii are getting quite high, but they are also a more accurate count than WK since WK doesn’t show the two answers per review you have to give (for all but radicals).

I still don’t have any grammar here on BP in the 10th column. But I’m amassing a lot in the 9th. Also 1-5th columns are empty. But then my last new lesson on BP was over 2,5 weeks ago. I’m not sure when I’ll pick up BP lessons again, but right now I want to level WK so I can get the last few N5 kanji there, and do Torii.

Maybe BP will start up again when I start learning new grammar points in my Japanese classes that will start in a little more than a month!

[Jul3]

True, yeah, slowing down can be good. But I think doing reviews everyday is important. But… just never learning anything new is bad, also… sometimes you gotta push yourself to actually click that button to learn something new…

As Bunpro said to me today:

But I think it’s just trying to brainwash me >_<

[mrnoone]

Of course, we are not trying to brainwash you into studying new grammar every day or anything

[Mangor]

Started using Bunpro everyday for about a week, it’s been a great help so far. I have a few basic grammar books but I’m having trouble finding the motivation to read through them. I find the review process to be much more rewarding.

Anyway, halfway through N5, pretty happy about it. I have a ton of ghost reviews and I still have a hard time wrapping my head around the sentence structures though.

What level was the hardest for you guys ? Does it get smoother or harder along the way ?

Good luck on the path !

[MissDagger]

You’ll know best. I always try to do reviews every day, but after a while in my slow down, I just decided to stop beating myself up about doing lessons every day. Instead I did them when I could find time and had mental energy to do them. I realized that it was more important to enjoy my days and to avoid burn out, than to do lessons. I knew I wasn’t just avoiding. If I had been avoiding, then I would have sat myself down and just done lessons. My advice is try to know which one it is you need, and it might change day to day.

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Yesterday:
Still going strong. Down to 0 reviews on Torii, WK and BP. 10ish lessons on Torii. 7 kanji and 8 vocab on WK (didn’t want to leave one kanji for next day).

And turned in all visa material to the Japanese embassy. Some time next week I should be able to pick up my passport again and then I can be off! (Although I won’t be until early April.)

[skullclutter]

Starting on Tobira. Unfortunately there are a bunch of grammar points from Tobira that aren’t in Bunpro yet, including the one I studied yesterday ({で/から}できる). I ended up zeroing my reviews here, then making bunpro-style cloze-delete cards for the example sentences in Anki.

[MissDagger]

Reviews on BP, WK, and Torii. 15 vocab lessons on WK (no other lessons available) and 10ish lessons on Torii.

This morning as I just did my morning (and currently only) BP review I realized I had managed to get to 0 ghosts… but I created a new one today. >_>

[nanda]

What level was the hardest for you guys ?

For me, the hardest part is trying to understand a grammar point that I’m still learning and/or a grammar point that seems won’t stick in my brain, not based on what level. So, for me, the hardest part changes over time. For example, I once quit learning Japanese because I couldn’t understand ageru, kureru, and morau, long long time ago.

頑張ろう。

[jamie]

WK was really slow. I added 15 lessons today, all vocabulary words from previous level. No new radical and kanji yet.

Level up to 35. No motivation for me to study Japanese, it’s not fun at all
It’s easier to watch Japanese movie or anime with subtitle
I have to force myself to do the lessons and let habit kicks in in place of needing motivation.
BP on 84 streaks here.

Lately I neglected reverse kanji app like KaniWani, didn’t have much time doing them and I found it was so frustrating to get similar meaning kanji wrong all the time. I need to keep adding synonyms to it and it seemed to burn my patience.

[mrnoone]

I think that registering for JLPT might boost your motivation a lot

[MissDagger]

Yesterday, I just needed some time off. So by the time I had my cut off, I only had time for BP reviews (they are generally 2-3 a day right now) and WK reviews. I didn’t touch Torii and I didn’t add lessons.

Then I had my first iTalki lesson in the evening. As I’ve said here many times, I’m trying to solidify N5 stuff (more as a marker of a certain amount of Japanese than because I’m taking the JLPT), and I really need speaking/talking practice. So that is what I had. I liked it. There wasn’t much I could say without prompting or help from her to construct sentences, but I was surprised over how many words I recognized, although I recognized more of what she said that I remembered the meaning of. Ugh.

Still this was just a 30 minutes trial lesson and I have an hour long lesson with her on Tuesday. I should also probably find someone else to do a trial lessons with. But… not today. :3

[jamie]

That might be right, but I need to schedule time since JLPT is not held at my town. I had to travel 3 hours just to get there and 5 hours to go back. Another hurdle I have to overcome

[mrnoone]

The harder to get there, the more motivation will you get

[nanda]

Yello!

• Today I zeroed my BP reviews again, and WK, and Kitsun, nah, not on Kitsun yet
• I learned three new lessons about 場合は、ていただけませんか、ところ。
• Answering 場合 on WK has never been easier!! Before I learned this grammar point, I thought, why there are so many “circumstances” here, when I’m faced by any circumstances vocabs. I haven’t finished reading all references about these grammar points though. 事情、都合、and others are also circumstance I just read half of Maggie sensei article and then I must’ve left not because I fell asleep but life called me Miaou!
• I may level up from WK level 24 to WK level 25 on Monday night if I don’t answer any current level Kanji wrong.
• Study Streak 98. We’ll see, we’ll see, if I can get Study Streak 100 badge soon if it exists.

[MissDagger]

After 1,5 month on level 9, I leveled up to 10 today.

As for yesterday, reviews on BP, WK, and Torii at least once. 10ish lessons on Torii and 5 vocab on WK. A bit low on WK but it was either do 5 or none, and I decided I’d rather do five.

[Jul3]

Study streak 100!

Also levelled up to 14 on Wanikani… still have 70 vocab to add first… and I’m still going slowly on adding things anywhere (been about a week since new Bunpro grammar)… unless later today I decide to do things…

[lopicake]

I love that study streak badge! But I just barely got back up to 30…it’s gonna be a while for me. : (

Checking in:
Grammar
Did my BP reviews. Not doing too bad on that front. I’m going back over the notes I took for Tobira and BP N2/N3 and just refreshing my memory/formatting them better. My early notes were kind of all over the place in terms of what I bolded/changed colors etc. Took a while before I got into my groove so I need to update the oldest ones.

Vocabulary
Passed 1000 words added on FloFlo! Currently at 1050.
<300 N1 words left for Torii! It’s funny how much they overlap. Whenever that happens I just trash it on FloFlo and add it as normal for Torii since it has the audio component.

Listening
I stopped watching Nodame Cantabile because I stopped caring about the characters. Switched it for Rea(L)ove and watched that (albeit with Japanese subtitles). It’s a dating show where all the contestants have a dark secret which they have to reveal one by one “randomly” over 3 days. It’s very trashy, one of the hosts is a super asshole, I learned a bunch of terrible things to call people and two different way to say someone has an addiction, but I absolutely couldn’t stop watching it.

Now I’m watching Chihayafuru without subtitles and really enjoying it!

Also I’m alternating days between listening to the podcasts Nihongo Con Teppei and ひいきびいき on my morning bike commute.

[nanda]

Morning!

I zeroed my reviews on BP. Haven’t zeroed my reviews on WK (39 right now) and Kitsun (a lot) though.

Will level up from WK lvl 24 to WK lvl 25 in an hour. Aaaa!!

Study Streak 98. We’ll see, we’ll see, if I can get Study Streak 100 badge soon if it exists.

Oh, okay, it exists. lol. And happened to me, too.

[MissDagger]

Just realized I forgot to say that my level up to 10 was on WK, but I guess that is pretty obvious since my level is way higher here already. ^_____^

Did reviews once to zero on BP, WK and Torii. Another few days and I will have all N5 words on Torii in my reviews. What will I focus on after that? Potentially making sure to get through all N5 stuff on WK, since I think that is the one furthest from actually having it. WK level ten will get me all but the last kanji and whatever vocab is related to that level 16 kanji.

All things considered. I should probably put the focus on WK to finish level 10 and writing practice. Soon, so very soon, I will be having lessons in Japan and I have a feeling I’ll need to write for those. ^^

Somehow my study plan and what I want done before I go to Japan is coming together. Not as planned, but I’m still getting it all done. So happy about that. Tomorrow is my next iTalki lesson, a whole hour… dum duuuum duuuuum duuuuuuuuuuuum

[jamie]

• Potential, causative, passive. They are hard to remember!
• Slow progress, a lot of work lately so I have little time left to study Japanese.
• I switched to Japanese drama instead of anime, I found it a bit more refreshing but harder to follow and hard to find Japanese subtitle instead of English.

I also noticed my learning chart was right in the middle