I think you may misunderstand what i mean. I don’t like ringotan’s way of teaching stroke order. With all those steps. It’s tedious. I like to practice with a pencil and paper and a stroke chart
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That’s good at least. (I still prefer Campus notebooks and a pencil)
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I think writing/output in general is valuable, but it’s smoother to do after getting some foundation with reading the kanji/vocab/grammar point. Otherwise with kanji you’re learning the semantic meaning, the on’yomi, kun’yomi, associated vocab AND how to write it. Writing kanji also helps distinguish 2 similar kanji too.
Working on N3, maybe around 160 Bunpro and 100 Wanikani a day. But broken down into 3 smaller sessions so its not bad at all
Through-out everything? Probably around 100 recently. I get about 20-30 some odd wani, and then about 20 some odd Bunpro reviews. Ive been busy with other studies so Then I do about 100 or so vocab reviews as Im in the mood for. I could do more vocab reviews but typically after around 100 I tend to need to move on.
Easy. Don’t learn the readings. Learn a vocab word for each of the major readings. Learning readings on their own is wasted effort. WaniKani’s method of teaching one reading is fine I guess but not necessary. The vocab words are the readings.
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Woah some people doing so many here!
I’m only doing grammar on Bunpro and get around 40 reviews per day with 4 new grammar points. Then vocab on Anki I get like 80 reviews with 7 new words. So around 120 total reviews plus 11 new cards split between grammar/vocab. At least 1 hour of immersion - usually more. That’s all I can really fit in atm but it doesn’t really feel like enough. Feels slow. Idk 
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Seeing how many reviews people do is kind of crazy 
Currently, I try to keep my Bunpro reviews to under 50 a day (Cloze for grammar, reading for vocab). If it starts to go above that, then I pause learning new items. Plus around 25-50 a day with Wanikani.
I work full-time (and can’t really do non-work related things while at work) and have family commitments, so any more reviews than this and I start to burn out/don’t have time to do other Japanese related activities like reading and listening.
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I get about 150 ~ 200 BP reviews a day too and on average about 100 WK reviews.
I’ve been busy lately (studying for a non japanese related test 
) so I’ve been trying my best to get the BP review count to go down and I make ample use vacation mode when it’s too much to handle
BP: 9-10 reviews, 1 new lesson per day (currently finishing up N3)
WK: ~120 reviews, 2 new kanji + 4 new vocab per day (Just started level 46)
I hate SRS 
But like this I can spend a maximum of 30 min per day on it, and ensure I can keep it up every single day.
For the rest, I’d rather play games, read manga, novels etc.
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I average about 120 a day but I also have about 100 or so anki reviews I do as well. Recenelty I’ve been trying to cut back on study so I can spend less time doing reveiw honestly XD, also for reference I’m N3
Depending on how many new items I add daily, with 5 new items per day, I got around 70-80 reviews; now I slowed to 2 new grammar points per day, and I get around 40-50 reviews.
Notes to the above: my retention rate is below average I would say, learning grammar points in isolation is not my strong point. If I run into learning similar items after each other, I inevitably mix them up in the beginning, which means lower retention rate and higher number of reviews in the beginning.
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about like 100-200 on bunpro and around 900 on anki
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Recently completely switched to BunPro, so my review count is pretty low currently.
Around like 100-150 reviews per day.
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How many people have ghosts on, I wonder? I do, so that combined with my slow learning is how I end up with so many. I don’t add that much per day.
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If you regularly end up with a lot of reviews unfinished, maybe lower the number of new items per day. It is a diabolic cycle - if you do not do the reviews in time, you forget more, give more wrong answers, the SRS counter eventually goes down and that leads to more reviews.
Unless you have a deadline to finish the N2 deck, try to lower the number of new items, until you reach stage with manageable daily reviews. If you have a deadline for N2, divide the number of remaining items with the number of days you have left and just wade through it.
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I have minimal ghosts on. One thing which helped me with ghosts is checking my stats and cramming the “troubled content”. Strengthening the weak points prevents items to end up as ghosts.
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On Bunpro, anywhere from 5-30 for grammar. Right now I’m doing a grammar push before I go back to work, so I’m averaging about 20 a day. On KanjiStudy I average around 30ish, on Anki with my kanji deck I average around 60ish. I used to average around 80 but then I suspended nearly all the N5/N4 kanji. I spend about 10 minutes on each platform. I don’t do vocabulary at all, I spend a few hours reading instead.
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The amount of reviews you do should correlate with how much immersion you are able to get in most days. If you have time and energy to do a ton long term and still spend hours immersing after, then you may as well do it. If you don’t, pace yourself. Doing reviews for 2 hours a day and no immersion is very bad for retention past the beginner phase. It’s also clearly unreasonable for most people to do more than 1 hour of mindnumbing yes/no spamming per day. If I only had two hours per day to dedicate to Japanese (730 hours a year, might want to put in some extra on weekends to get this up to 1000 per year) I would try to stay within 15 minutes of reviews and put the rest on reading/watching so I get enough input. Not really that viable to immerse that much in the absolute beginner stage though, but around N4 it should be doable with a lot of patience.
The exact number isn’t too interesting but my reviews peaked at 600 9 months in. The main cause was clearly WK and Bunpro SRS just being weak algorithms, but also doing like 3 grammar + 35 new words a day is a bit high. I didn’t use ghosts, I think that’s just giving yourself more reviews (why?).
I would never recommend this to someone who isn’t doing Japanese all day. It’s a recipe for burning out. I don’t know about everyone else, but I have no need for JLPT to move to Japan and I don’t plan on dying in the next decades so it’s not like I have to rush. I am just addicted to the point it is affecting my everyday life negatively (but my Japanese positively so worth it lol).
I still do Japanese practically all day, but I switched to Anki for vocab and dropped new words to 20 and put FSRS at 86% so now I have a modest 220〜 reviews a day (excluding my kanji writing cards) which takes me around an hour because I have an urge to imitate the pitch on nearly all my sentence cards.
A big reason for my lower reviews is obviously lowering my word count, but switching to FSRS and finishing all the bunpro grammar made a huge difference. Making sure that ALL new words added to my reviews are also words I have seen the day before helps a lot. They don’t start from zero, they start from “oh hey I remember this word from yesterday” so I understand the context on how the word was used immediately and don’t need to start from 1D review cycles.
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How often do you cram troubled grammar?
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