How many new grammar points do you learn a day?

Bunpro
#41

I only do new Grammar items when I ‘feel’ like I’ve got a handle on my Beginner and Adept level grammars. Usually this means that they are at a ‘low’ count. Currently that means that Beginners are less than about 15-20. (Also, my Ghosts should be equally ‘under control’, like less than 20. I have Ghosts on the default setting, so I tend to get a lot of them over time.)

When I do take on new Grammars, I do three at a time.

But, realistically, there can be times when there are many many days between new Grammar lessons. So, actually, it’s less than even 1 per day, to be honest.

I’m also in the middle of doing a huge number of Vocabs, so that has been diverting me somewhat from keeping up with Grammar. So, because of that, it’s actually been quite a while since I’ve added new Grammar. But I continue to do reviews for existing grammar of course.

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#42

For me, Monday morning is when I add new ones. I was doing 3 grammar points every week. Now I am doing 1 grammar point and 30 vocabulary.

It might not seem like much but I was doing together with the exercises in the Tobira book.

If you add that to a similar strategy I do on Wanikani, it adds to a nice chunk for me.

#43

lol the A B thing does not always make sense to me, too… because what is A??

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#44

In every grammar point where it’s been A+B I have just seen it as a replacement for before and after the word. For example A 却って B or simply put contrary to A, it’s B.

却って (日本語能力試験 N3) | Bunpro

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#45

I started last year and it varies month to month. I had 0 knowledge of Japanese before starting and now I’m a little over half way through N4 for grammar and vocab. I feel sometimes I really struggle to recall the things I have learned so I slow right down on new reviews. Working full time it is hard to clear the reviews in time so sometimes its all reviews and no new points. I think the consistency makes a huge difference and making it stick has become my new priority over adding the new points.

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#46

felt this, also just into n2 and the nuance and differences between become very difficult it feels from how similar something seems in meaning

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#47

Same. I ported all of my N5 from Duo and Renshuu and marked anything I didn’t want to review (basic particles, standard form verbs, etc) as “Mastered” so they didn’t clog up the review queue. Once I had them all put in, I kept up a pace of 3/day and am just about to finish up N4.

Last month, I switched reviews from written answers to reading, which helped a ton. I would recommend it to anyone who is doing input-focused learning, like if you don’t need to do output for a trip or whatever. If you mainly want to read/hear Japanese content, reading review goes away faster than written and results in way fewer ghosts. Probably half of my written errors were just not remembering how to spell て conjugations lol

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#48

It would be nice to have a difficulty rating on each grammar point, and maybe break up some of the harder ones into incremental steps. The lessons that are basically just peculiar uses of a word are easy easier than the constructions that change whole sentence meanings.

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