Trying again (log)

Bunpro
#1

Yeah yeah fell behind in reviews and got too overwhelmed to push through and fell out of practice you know how it goes. Gonna try again to learn. Going to try to update this thread daily with what ive learned and hows its going and hopefully that will be some motivation to be consistent. Hopefully it’ll work.

Gonna start over from the beginning and just doing grammar points since i have wk on the side (which im also in backlog hell in) going to try to speed through n5 a little bit.

But yeah, wish me luck.

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#2

good luck!

I spent last three days clearing my backlogs too (around 300-400 reviews/day…)

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#3

i am very very very sleepy. but half way through lesson 4. wouldnt say ive run into anything ive forgotten so nothing to really go over but yeah. being able to make progress while this tired is a good habit to get into so i dont led a bad day be an excuse or nothin

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#4

god i could literall never do that. i just have to make sure i dont fall behind in the first place. that is just super overwhelming

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#5

Got halfway through lesson 6. Again nothing really new in n5 mainly just refreshing myself and making sure i remember all the details and dont get caught up later. Should probably be in N4 in a couple days at this rate where i do plan to slow down.

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#6

way overslept today and fell behind on a few things. didnt do as much lessons the previous days but still maaged to get on and get through the reviews and made it through lesson 6 at least.

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#7

I need to keep my conjugations straight ahh. it’s hard to keep track of all the rules. i thought 高くてもいい would just be 高てもいい cause the い is dropped so often but it needs to use that form.
I also sometimes forget that ある just isn’t like treated as a word exactly. I don’t conjugate it i just use other forms like ない。

Still struggling with feeling asleep the entire time but just doing what i can. Got most of the way through lesson 8

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#8

just did 3 lessons today.
honestly the reviews are already starting to be bothersome. Adhd is bad all of the medications ive tried have just had worse side effects so im having to struggle through.

Just trying to at least make some progress so things dont ramp.

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#9

Capsaican is a decent stimulant.

Mainly just focusing on reviews and slowly down tje pace of lessons so it doesn’t become overwhelming still got through 6 tho.

Conjugations become a bit overwhelming esp when so many things are so similar keeping track of exactly how one things conjugayes for each circumstance is a bit dizzying

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#10

Idk if I have adhd or whatever but for me it’s basically impossible to create like even the smallest habit for now. Even something like “adding 3 kanji that I sometime mistake for other every day” which takes a very small amount of time, I slowly started failing after 3 weeks and stoped after 5 weeks. It just starts feeling more like something that bothers me more and more.

So after like one and a half years of learning Japanese I came up with a method where I just write a plan for a week, like “read X amount everyday and mine words that I know but have problems reading, and then review them focusing on readings and other words with same kanji” and after the week I just switch to something else like “Watch anime while mining words that are completely foreign to me until I reach 300 words, then use fill in type cards for those words to get a good grasp of kanji” and then next week I find something new, I might follow with “manually select 900 words with kanji from the last week and learn” or maybe again "read a book until mined 500 words that have similarities with 300 words form the last week (same kanji, similar kanji, similar sound, etc), and then you might watch to go to Bunpro and get some quality grammar from old reviews, until you are again tired from that format.

So instead of locking in with one structure, you are trying to find what is the best at the moment, so you can stay motivated, focused, and feel progress in real-time.

Idunno, just felt like sharing today.

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#11

Nah, i really appreciate sharing that. That does kinda make sense honestly and if i find myself getting too burnt out i might try it tho it does seem like the stress of coming up with an entire new plan each week might be a bit exhausting and switching up doesnt help with review backlogs… i dunno. Def interesting at the very least

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#12

pushing my reviews back later and later cause i really really dont wanna do them. probably would have fallen off if i didnt feel obligated to make some progress to post about here already so this thread has already accomplished something

just did thrree lessons. remembering all the てcomjugations while attatching them to everything else is sitll throwing me off a good bit. Not sure how ill manage once i get to like mid n4 stuff where its stuff that will be new to me… but… will worryy about that once i get there. until then yay made it a week!

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#13

Might be, but for me it’s rather fun, because I really like building starts even more then using them, maybe much more then using them :laughing:

If I want to use a deck during the week I would plan it so it gives me a lot of benefits in that week and I don’t have to continue doing it.
With Bunpro would just treat each review that piled up as a possibility to really learn that point, rather than one review out of 600 grammar reviews that piled up, or something like that.

At least that is how that works for me.

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#14

Got started early. Again only taking on a few things and not in new stuff yet. I’m not struggling with reviews content wise but ahh focusing on them is soooo harddd. making a bucnh of small mistakes atill mainly related to conjugation but yeah. ill try to see if i can’t take on more lessons tomorrow to make some more real progress. spent most of the day binging precure tbh

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#15

Alright did all of the N5 grammar lessons. So thats the easy stuff down at least. Im still getting caught on some conugations and actually reading the sample sentences is kinda difficult too. but its progress. once i get far enough in n4 to get to new stuff ill start going over eberything i learn each day too. but yeah for now thats some progress.

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#16

super tired. no lessons today. will do better

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#17

slept terribly the past few days. been doing what but im like super out of it. hopefully will get better sleep soon

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#18

I’m sorry, I hope you feel better soon!

Also, will putting your cards in vacation mode help? I’m struggling with an illness that causes flares of fatigue, and I’ve found that, at least psychologically, it helps to not feel like I’m missing out on my flashcards when I’m trying to get some rest. The younger cards might suffer in the short term, but I haven’t found any long term drawbacks to this. <3

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#19

It does help to do that tho in the past ive found exiting vacation mode to be enough of a commitment that sometimes i just decide it’s easier to not do it. Probably better overall tho. Fortunately my backlog is only at 50 rn tho and managed to cut 20 off today so it’s not too bad. the 600+ on wanikani is a different story however.

and yeah im struggling with some chronic stuff too that makes me exhausted like most of the time. I’m actually getting surgery in a couple of weeks and im really hopeful this will turn things around for me.

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