End of year report (2021)
Actual data is not a natural year, but the last 365 days. Although it’s very close as this data series started the 28th of December.
I could have probably done more fancy graphics but I’m not very fond of excel, and currently my tracking system doesn’t have coded in any fancy stats. I doubt I’ll ever add it, as I prefer spending time actually studying.
Again my main objective, is being able to read without having my dictionary next to me for every odd word, so do take that in mind when seeing the data.
So let’s try to make some sense of the numbers.
Totals
For 365 days, tasks related to Japanese learning were done every single day, so even if some days the time invested was close to 0 (especially when I was doing 60h+/week work), it never reached 0. So that’s a 365 streak, which was one of my main 2021 resolutions.
A total of 579.40 hours have ben put in, which gives an average of 1.59h per day)
This is a graphic of time per day and a distribution on what tasks it has gone in:
Bunpro (50.1h | ~0.14h/day)
Started at level 9, currently at level 47. 8229 Reviews done, and 215 Lessons. Currently at 65% of N4 complete.
Kanji Kentei 3DS Exercises (105.6h | ~0.29h/day)
Started at Kanji Kentei level 10 with 80% cleared, currently at Kanji Kentei level 8 with 96% cleared.
Kanji Kentei Books (80.3h | ~0.22h/day)
Finished Kanji Kentei Books level 10, 9 and 8. I have started level 7 recently.
Watching content (172.6h | ~0.47h/day)
Content in Japanese without subtitles. Mainly anime but some other variety programs also included.
Reading (60.2h | ~0.16h/day)
Mainly manga, have started alternating with some Tsubasa Bunko light novels.
You have the titles I have read on my Bookmeter and LearnNatively profiles.
Vocabulary / Anki (57.3h | ~0.16h/day)
Currrently sitting at over 1627 generated vocabulary cards from the Kanji Kentei books.
Other content (53.30h | ~0.14h/day)
Watched 2 full courses for N5 and N4 to jog up my memory.
Here there’s also some other content that I don’t do daily so it doesn’t have it’s own category, such as pure Kanji repetition, preparation for courses, textbooks, apps on the phone, etc…)
Conclusions and moving forward 2022
Although I did manage to keep the streak of doing Japanese every single day, I feel like those days that reached almost 0 are a bad mark. Next year I don’t expect my work hours to be as high as I’m doing some changes and taking some real life stuff decisions.
So I have established these objectives for the next year:
- Keep the average of 90 minutes per day global.
- Finish KKB7 and most of KKB6.
- JLPTN4 and JLPTN3 grammar on Bunpro.
- Try to read a bit everyday.
If I do any major changes to my routine, I’ll be updating this post again.
As always, happy to hear feedback on how to improve/change things, and see new methods.
Now if you will excuse me, that’s a lot of numbers and data so I’ll go get my second cup of coffee.