What’s your study looking like?

Japanese
#22

Goal for Japanese? Initially it was to read manga and light novels as nothing that I liked had translations lol. Its really cool to see how much gets translated these days.

Generally, this was what my routine used to look like:

  • For grammar of course its Bunpro . I also bought some JLPT focused books to copy example sentences and extra practice.
  • Kanji Senpai for words / kanji which was like WaniKani is some ways. Though I dropped it as Anki / Ankidroid felt enough.
  • Ankidroid for a little bit of everything. When I read something, I would add it for a list to make proper cards later.
  • Renshuu for a little bit of everything. When starting out I used Renshuu a lot to print out kanji practice sheets.
  • Used to read for a bit every day. At least 1 page.
  • I would also go through my notes for a few minutes per day to refresh my knowledge

I went to weekly Japanese evening lessons for a while (maybe 4 years) which was fun.
Also some summers I did go to JaLS Group in Japan and study Japanese for at least a month at a time. eg a month in Sapporo during the summer. Personally I really like their style and the lessons were in the morning (so I could work remotely during some evenings haha )

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#23

These days, primarily just reading ebooks. I’m about 20k characters away from finishing my current book and then I will move on to the next.

I’d like to get back into regularly using Bunpro, but I’ll probably just do a single grammar point each day.

More recently I started using an AI for conversational roleplay. The goal there isn’t to learn anything but rather to just practice speaking and build up confidence to speak so I can stop tripping over words.

I don’t know what to call it, but like a perfect L2 speaker or as close to native as possible. I live in Japan so I just want to live the same way as everyone around me rather than having one foot in one lingual sphere and another foot in a different lingual sphere.

#24

My actual japanese routine is something like:

  1. Daily bunpro reviews, something like ~200/day
  2. +3 grammar points / +20 words / +3 Kansai ben points
  3. watching an episode of anime or tv show using Migaku to make flashcards
  4. Flashcards reviews
  5. Talking with people on Hello talk
  6. Before I go to sleep i like to read a novel or manga in japanese

But it’s going to change soon i applied for a Japanese school in Osaka.
I’m actually somewhere between N4 and N3, my goal is to get N2 before 2026’s summer, so i can do my best to work there after my school as a 3D animator.