Before I started Bunpro, I wasn’t able to stay consistent in my daily study. It’s always been a problem of mine actually, but Bunpro’s streak feature and medals helped me push forward and maintain consistency.
Now I’m almost at a 2 month streak (which is a record for me), and it feels good!
What about you all? What helps you stay consistent day to day?
The goal, I want to read japanese.
that screams like me. I’m incredibly bad at building habits and doing stuff on a regular basis without forgetting shit i have to do.
While i dont care too much about streaks, i noticed that whenever i didnt do anything japanese related (even for a single day), the next days it always took me some time to get back to my previous comprehension level. And it just gets worse the longer you take a break in my experience and that frustrated me every single time.
So, that somehow motivates me enough to do at least SOMETHING regarding japanese every day, even if its just 10 reviews on BP or a single nhk article.
Playing Pokemon in Japanese is really helping with keeping me engaged even when I’m burning out.
It’s been super interesting to play Pokemon Green, which we never got in the west. I got it in the mail recently, box and all! Japanese Red and Green run on a different code base from English Red and Blue, which are based off the later released Japanese Blue version which has “cleaned up” code (I say that loosely, because Game Freak’s coding skills have always been… a difficulty for them, and Red and Blue remain full of glitches).
If nothing else, it’s pretty cool to start comprehending how the translation was done, and how it differs from the original Japanese text. Some things that I thought would be completely changed are surprisingly similar, and vice versa.
One thing I can recommend you do, is if you know you’re going to miss a day, stick some Japanese news on while getting ready for bed and don’t worry too much about watching it, just listen.
It’ll get you a little bit more exposure without much mental effort. You probably won’t understand much, but just pick out little bits that you can.
Hi there,
For my part, to stay motivated and consistent, I’ve built a daily routine that I force myself to follow no matter what. Without this structure, I know I’m the kind of person who struggles to stay consistent.
Every day, I know that for my Japanese learning I have to do Anki, write half a page in Japanese, and watch immersion content. If I haven’t checked all these boxes, I don’t go to bed.
Another very important point is to always keep a clear goal in mind. In my opinion, the best way to stay motivated is to set several small, achievable goals that you can reach relatively quickly. And of course, you should never forget why you’re doing this in the first place, why you decided to learn Japanese.
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I read in another thread, someone said, “I don’t rely on motivation, I rely on routine”, and I’ve been feeling this exact thing as well. If I get my routine down, then I will do it regardless of whether I feel like it or not, as it’s just what I do
I liken it to a marathon runner who keeps taking 1 step forward, whether they feel like it or not, it’s the discipline and routine that keeps them going.
The major fuel for the consistent is to reminding yourself on why you start. For me its a bit natural since my current mission right now is to work in Japan as soon as possible and to exit my job. I have a difficult boss to manage her expectation and the job market in my country is pretty worse so anytime she throw something nonsense then i will get fired up and double up my Japanese study time lol
It helped me with my “I don’t know the next step and where I am on the map” but writing down all the topic in one place and showing how many of them I have to complete to reach a certain level. It game a clear path I could go without thinking much about grammar part, which was the main for me at that time.