Now I want to start, can somebody give me some tips how I reach my goal to speak Japanese. i know all Hira and Kata already. how much vocab do you learn each day… and how much grammar?
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Depends on who’s answering, you are going to get a really wide range of answers. It’s probably safer to start low and ramp up after a month or so, versus starting too high, because burning out when you have too many reviews to tackle everyday is a real risk.
Maybe think about how long you are willing to spend on reviews everyday, and if you have any concrete goals in the short/medium term (JLPTs etc), and work backwards from there? Which review type are you going to use? Fill-in takes more time than reading, I think, and if you are planning to handwrite your answers for kanji practice that will take even more time.
I’m also not sure how you are going to bridge your goal to speak Japanese with Bunpro - not that Bunpro is useless for speaking, but you definitely need some speaking (and listening) practice that’s not available on here. Just something to think about.
Personally, I’m doing 10 vocab (reading mode) + 1 grammar (fill-in mode) points per day now, with most of the vocab mined from books I’m reading. It takes me about an hour a day to clear my ~200 reviews, which is a pretty huge time suck. My goal is to reach ~9K cards this year so that I can read with more ease - your final vocab goals might be different if you are looking to be conversational instead.
(It’s also probably better to go slow on grammar at the start - I found N5/N4 grammar points harder than N3 onwards, because it was difficult to wrap my head around basic conjugation rules, the concept of particles etc. I remember literally crying over my passive, causative and passive-causative tables because I kept mixing them up :/)
Welcome Pascal!
Don’t be greedy with grammar and vocab or you will pile up review quickly and might end up burning out.
5 vocab and 1 grammar point a day for at least 2 weeks is a good start (I personaly do all of them as fill in)
Then slowly increase it if you still have more time daily to invest in bunpro.
Learning a language is a marathon not a sprint, it will take you years.
If you want to try out some japanese reading already check out level s and 0 of tadoku graded reader
, those books are free and aimed at children and people learning japanese.
If you prefer videos, there are hundreds of free comprehensive input video for beginners or N5 on youtube, you can also check out the free video on comprehensible japanese.