Wyland's Japanese Progress

Japanese
#1

This is mostly for me to use as a tracker of my personal milestones and Japanese ability but I thought that I would post it here in case anyone else wanted to read it

1 Month
I started learning Japanese late last year but got burnt out on Anki very quickly after learning hiragana and katakana.
Around a month ago I picked it back up and decided to use Bunpro for both grammar and vocab SRS instead of Anki and to go at a pace that is much more reasonable to what I can actually achieve.

For just over the past month I have been doing 1 new grammar point a day and 5 new vocab words totaling 34 grammar points and 170 words or 204 cards. I do my reviews in reading mode but every few days I also do input crams for the words that I have learned

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Currently I am able to read some very basic sentences like the ones available in the early Bunpro n5 reading practice section and I can make out the occasional word or short sentence when listening to spoken Japanese in youtube videos, tiktoks, etc.

Although only 6 new cards a day is not very many I am very happy with my progress over the past month and am proud that I was able to complete a 31+ day streak. I may slightly increase the amount of new words per day after I finish the N5 grammar deck but I think I will continue at my current pace until I complete all of the N5 content on Bunpro which should be sometime in late February or early March and then I can evaluate how I want to do things moving forward.

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#2

Keep it steady, that’s also the number I add (though I’statted with 2 gramar and 15 vocab daily for a week silly me) for 4 months now and had to stop as mynreviews were reaching around 170 daily (and slowly increased).
Don’t feel bad for not’adding words for a few days or weeks.
Your are not a slave to the SRS and need to be carefull not to burn out.

That’s an awesome start! It’s awesome when you start picking up words.
have you checked the topic section for more grammar explanation that were release recently ?

If you are looking for free easy book to read I highly recommend the tadoku website, start with the level S and 0’then slowly progress as you japanese improve.

がんばれ❗

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#3

Huh. That was honestly a refreshing experience. I appreciate you sharing the existence of that site. I’ll definitely be going through more of their books.

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#4

Thank you for your reply!

previously with anki I was originally doing the default 20 cards which was far too many and even though I quickly reduced it to 10 it was still too much for me at the time so now I make sure to take it slow and only do what I am personally comfortable with and am able to do even on the days where I don’t feel super motivated to review

I have had the tadoku site bookmarked for a bit but haven’t properly checked it out yet. thank you for the recommendation its good to know that you find it to be a valuable resource, ill definitely try it out soon!

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