I have been doing around 18 new cards per day.
The trick: I already was familiar with quite a few of the grammar points.
I noticed my major weakness: verb and adjective conjugation. I failed and had to repeat a lot of reviews due to this.
My next goal: practice conjugations until I become proficient. From now on I plan to do 6 new grammar points per day.
While I’m doing this I’m also doing some Anki and comprehensible immersion from https://cijapanese.com/
頑張りましょう！
Wow! Congratulations on your speedrun. That site also looks really useful. I’m looking forward to trying it out.
I’m curious, what are your goals with Japanese?
6 new grammar points a day sounds quite intense!
I hope you got time to rest and take care of yourself too! Good luck and good job.
What do you study on anki btw
As a first goal I’d like to be able to understand Japanese mass media. Later I’d look forward communication.
In Anki I’m studying a 1k vocabulary deck
How much time per day did it took you the 18 cards? I was doing 6 grammar points per day on N4 for a pair of weeks but now I slowed it down a little cause i wanted to do other things too. Good job and good luck with your next goal!
Edit: I saw your page and recognized Yuki-sensei! I watch a lot of videos of her friend けんさんおかえり that sometimes both do a collab
Going slowly and taking my time to read and listen to all examples, it took around 3 hours per day, maybe a little bit less. I did it in batches of 6 grammar points per session.
I assume you meant “頑張りましょう” lol
Always use the 連用形 (い stem) of verbs before adding ます
頑張れましょう technically also exists but isnt really used. (Its Potential, Masu + Volitional)
Seing that you said you have some problems with conjugation, Ill try to explain it:
First of all, the western form of “conjugation” doesnt really exist in Japanese. Japanese uses helper words to add onto different stems of the original verb.
頑張る → Original verb form, indicated by the fact that it ends on a kana in the “う” row (In this case る)
As you know, Japanese uses 5 vowels, あ,い,う,え,お.
“る” falls under the “う” vowel row.
You can now take this “る” and replace the “う” with any of the aforementioned vowels. This is called a stem. (る → ら、り、る、れ、ろ)
When we want to add certain helper verbs, we need to first change the る into one of these stems. The reason for why we use a certain stem for a helper verb actually etymologically makes sense, but is a little too advanced to be learning instantly.
What is important to know is this:
For 五段 verbs:
(五段 verbs are most verbs that end with -う except ones that end with (-え)る and (-い)る)
ます uses the い stem and adds ます. (頑張る → 頑張り+ます)
Volitional uses the お stem and adds a う. (頑張る → 頑張ろ+う)
Potential uses the え stem and adds the verb る. (頑張る → 頑張れ+る)
Desireable uses the い stem and adds the adjective たい (頑張る → 頑張り+たい)
Receptive (Passive) uses あ stem and adds the verb れる (頑張る → 頑張ら+れる)
Causative uses the あ stem ands adds the verb せる (頑張る → 頑張ら+せる)
Negative uses the あ stem and adds the adjective ない (頑張る → 頑張ら+ない)
Hypothetical uses the え stem and adds ば (頑張る → 頑張れ+ば)
Imperative uses only the え stem. (頑張る → 頑張れ)
As you can see, these “Helper words” themselves are verbs/adjectives themselves, which means they can be conjugated further using the same principle.
The only (important) exceptions are:
する、ます、くる、いく、which all have unique conjugations that you need to learn.
For 一段 verbs:
(一段 are most (not all) verbs that end with (-え)る / (-い)る) like 食べる)
For these we simply cut the る completely and instantly add any of the helper words; These are much simpler since they dont have any stem and just add the helper word.
ます adds ます; (食べる-> 食べます)
Volitional adds よう. (食べる-> 食べよう)
Potential adds れる. (食べる-> 食べれる)
Desireable adds たい (食べる → 食べたい)
Receptive (Passive) adds られる (食べる → 食べられる)
Causative adds the させる (食べる → 食べさせる)
Negative adds ない (食べる → 食べない)
Hypothetical adds れば (食べる → 食べれば)
Imperative uses either ろ or よ (食べる → 食べろ / 食べよ)
Of course I didnt go into everything but that should suffice for the fundamentals.
Congrats! These videos helped me to understand conjugations.
Wow!
Thank you for explaining all of this. To make it stick into my memory I think I’ll have to do some drilling.
Hey! Thank you for these video recomendations. I had already started playing a couple of them.
Your welcome!