I did indeed add 3 grammar points yesterday! And another 3 today! Feeling keen at the moment! Adding a bunch of stuff on Torii and Wanikani vocab as well.
Glad it’s all working out! It’s been good to see the journey as documented in this thread. Seeing everyone’s progression and posting here is really nice.
Not sure if you mean they’re hard to remember conjugating or they’re hard to keep straight whose doing what action with whatever. But if it’s the latter 日本語の森 has some good videos about causative, passive and causative-passive that helped me. #9-12 of their N2試験によく出る文法 series is all about it!
Thanks and I agree. I really like following everyone’s journey here.
Reviews on BP, WK, and Torii. 10ish lessons on Torii and 15 at WK. My lesson divide there was one radical, one kanji, and three vocab for every 5 lessons. It is a split I know @seanblue uses or very similar (I think he has a different lesson batch amount than I); I also started using the script he talks about for that (well I have been for a while). Although I am wondering if I should focus a bit more on last levels vocab before doing too many radicals and kanji, but this way the bulk I do is still vocab.
I’m having my iTalki lesson in an hour and a half. Wish me luck or maybe just good practice.
Interesting to read about the lesson ordering. I’ve never done it, but I think what I may do is after clearing this level’s vocab (I have got 2 more days of 20 vocab lessons to clear that (I’ve already done 2 days of it)), I’ll add all the radicals of the new level, and then on the Wanikani settings try out “Ascending level then shuffled” in the “Lesson ordering” setting. That way the vocab won’t pile up behind a big wall of kanji that I don’t want to add so many of at once.
Doing pretty well - only missed 4 days so far this month.
Got my reviews in today and yesterday and added in about 6 grammar points for Tobira chapter 1 over the two days. I was glad to read that Bunpro is finally going to go back and fill in the missing grammar! Still working on creating Anki sentence cards for Tobira’s example sentences though. Going through the process of creating the card really helps me take my time with the sentence so I can figure out exactly why it works.
こんにちは、
I’m at the hospital right now.
I just zeroed my BP Review. I don’t think i’m adding lessons this week. I’ll try not to break my study streak.
Study streak 102.
I do 12 lessons most days on WaniKani. I split this as 3 kanji and 9 vocab in three groups of four. At my level there’s virtually no radicals, so I just do all them right at level up.
P.S. I’m a guy. 
You might be interested in my Lesson Filter script that @MissDagger was referring to. It lets you pick how many lessons of each type you want to do (radicals, kanji, vocab) and then lets you shuffle them.
Gah! Sorry. T_T
@Jul3 I really like the lesson filter, because unlike reorder script which I used for a while, I can really divide up how much of each kind of lesson I want to do. And it keeps the order of the items intact. I like getting all vocab with a certain kanji all together, that way I’ll avoid some leeches.
Did reviews yesterday on BP, WK, Torii. But I didn’t do lessons. Instead (although I hadn’t planned for it to be instead) I had my second iTalki lesson, a whole hour this time. It seemed to fly by, not sure how that happened. More speaking practice, putting stuff I know into practice. I also seem to be getting into rhythm to create my own sentences faster, even if I’m always given a sentence structure to use.
We talked about 子供の時, 学生の時, ageの時, and a few other variants. And from there talked about this we liked, disliked, were/is good at or bad at. But a different word than 上手 and 下手. とくい and にがて. We also briefly talked about stacking adjectives and I had completely forgotten how to do that. ^^
I’m liking these so scheduled out another five lessons, I’ll have two a week until I fly to Japan. Wiii!
Yeah but these ghost reviews, man…
I’m pretty new here, so let me ask: how many study points do you usually do per day? I started with a bit too much which created a big workload from the start (and lots of mistakes). Someone said they were doing up to 8 points per day but that seems to get out of hand pretty quickly. Now I’ve been steadily doing just three a day to alleviate the workload a bit.
And I thought I knew N4 grammar but producing it to the tee without any errors was not that easy after all 
When I was working with Tobira I would study the chapter and then do all the grammar points on BunPro all in one go/two gos. But since I was essentially studying each grammar point twice it wasn’t so bad.
When I was doing just BP as my primary mode of study I would do around 3 daily. 6 if I was feeling restless. (9 when I was being crazy/close to finishing.) I think 3 is a great pace!
@sandalwood I usually did 1-4 lessons. Only 1-2 if I was squeezed for time. 3 was my normal amount, and I did 4 when 1 the first 3 was one I knew really well already. (I’m currently not doing lessons here, only reviews, but I’m sure I’d get back to about the same.)
Yesterday: Did reviews as usual, BP, WK, and Torii. I added 10 lessons on Torii and am now 20ish lessons from finishing N5 vocab. I’ll probably push a bit today or tomorrow to finish them all.
I didn’t get to lessons on WK. And I also didn’t do an evening review despite seeing 20 reviews awaiting. Now I have 48 this morning which I procrastinated on by doing Torii reviews AND lessons already… (And then I came to this forum… … … I’m doing my WK reviews next, promise!)
My average is roughly 0 lessons a day.
Currently I seem to only add new lessons once a week… using the study feature to add 3 items…
Looking at this, it seems like I seem to get keen when I do it and often add 3 more items the next day, lol. I currently feel like adding some more, but… probably won’t until the weekend…
This iTalki lesson sounds great! I was thinking a few weeks ago that I should look for a tutor… I currently do these weekly group lessons, but because I do study outside of that, the stuff I do in class is right at beginner level whereas the stuff I do online is more advanced than that… there’s a disconnect, but I seem to like going to that class, as it goes through stuff in a different fashion than these SRS, and I like the group setting and talking)… I really should start forming my own sentences more, as that’s a weakpoint at the moment, and try to do more reading, which often falls behind when I get busy. It seems that reviews on SRS is my daily routine, lessons on SRS when I feel like it, and if I have free evenings/weekends at home, then I’ll do reading or whatever extra. Some good days I’ll do lessons in the morning and read Tangoristo on the bus or whatever.
As for my update, I’m behind on the WK lessons I mentioned in my last post here, and so not got to current level items, but might try the script seanblue mentioned when I get there… Bunpro I want to add more items in the next few days…
@lopicake I meant the conjugation form. I always have weak spots on that.
Lately I got into Japanese drama, I resynced the subtitles then exporting the video clip to anki using subs2srs - don’t know why subtitles were not synced, it was fun I could practice listening while doing that. It’s nice to see I could pick up some many words and grammar points. It’s kind of like delvin but you make it on your own.
Your group lessons still sound useful, especially since speaking is a different skill and listening is a different skill from how WK and BP teach Japanese, aka it is more reading and recognition. But if you are thinking you want a bit more challenge, iTalki is great because there are tutors and teachers (I use a tutor, cheaper and I’m not looking for formal lessons) all over the world, so there are lessons at all kinds of times on all days of the week, even the weekend.
I did about 15-20 lessons on Torii, I can’t remember exactly how many, I also archived a few words. I also let through a couple of words I thought I might archive, but wasn’t sure. Basically if I answer them wrong in the first few reviews I’ll keep them, if I’m super sure and always right for a couple of reviews I’ll archive it. (I only do this with words I know since before. ^^ )
Reviews on BP, WK, and Torii. At least I think I did at least one round of reviews on WK…
Did the last lessons on Torii for N5 vocab. So about 15ish lessons. Archived a few words.
Also had another iTalki lesson. Really good. I think today’s was the best yet, so I’m glad I decided to stick with this tutor. I was a little unsure and thought I should really try more than one, but still bought a package of lessons with her. Haha.
The structure started with her asking me what I’d done that week, speaking about each day. And then she helped me create a more natural Japanese sentence about all of it (so not day by day). That was really helpful.
Then we talked about doing things in the future, plans, and got into how to say prepping for my Japan move/trip (is 1-year a trip or a move? ^____^ ). And this second half was more teaching me structures how to say those things and then practicing them.
I also felt that more of the lesson was using only Japanese, at least from my side. Since I could actually form sentences about what I’d done this past week! ^^
Yeah, I think so, too. I think a tutor would be better, but I haven’t really looked. I guess iTalki is a good replacement for a real life tutor, I’m not a big fan of skype or even talking on the phone, but I guess it is convenient and easier! Your last lesson description sounds great though, and makes me want to look into it more!
Finally added some new grammar points to Bunpro after a week. Added 6 points. I mentioned last time I had 2 days of 20 vocab lessons on WK to get to my next level content… however, 4 days later I still have 15 lessons left… I bought a physical copy of TaeKim a lil while ago, as I’m really bad at actually bothering to read through it, or a similar site on the web… I read some more of it today, and learnt some interesting things. Maybe later I’ll watch some Japanese Ammo with Misa (I have a couple of videos I want to watch) or do my WK bookclub readings, I haven’t read anything in a while. Oh yeah, I did send a couple messages to a Japanese chap I know, and in his sentences back he seemed to use half a dozen of my recent BP items in a single sentence, so it was good trying to work it out properly and even seeing a grammar point from the very last BP lesson in action was good.
Yesterday… Eeeh… Reviews on my main sites: BP, WK, and Torii. And that is about it. I did make sure to do an evening review session on both WK and Torii.
And while I remember this morning’s BP review was terrible. I created like 4 new ghost reviews from a 5-amount review session… Some where just small mistakes and reminders about structure. One where I didn’t read the hint carefully made me completely botch the answer (twice). Upon closer read though, it was because I skimmed…
Finally added the last of the old level vocab on WK, and the new level radicals and a few kanji. About 8 days after levelling up… a new slow record for me… I think I need to make lessons in WK a regular thing again, not just the reviews. Aside from that, I didn’t watch the grammar videos I said I might, and only did one of my WK bookclub readings. Tried to keep up with reviews today. I think on reviews, I need to read up on the conditionals (I think なら and たら fall into this, I seem to have reviews on them on BP as well as the よう stuff (it’s remembering what conjugates to what in this case which is different to usual).
Edit: Ahhh! I see BunPro has updated!!! I’m keen to do all the “New” N5 grammar that didn’t exist before!!
Having a hard time remembering which one is passive, potential, causative, causative-passive. Might remember better when using られる、させる, etc like in dictionary instead.
