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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 25 of 91 31 January 2015 at 1:34am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I've now worked through enough of the 新完全マスター N3 grammar exercises that I can look
back and see how much is sticking and how much I need to refresh my knowledge. The exercises are highlighting those areas where I'm not sure of how to use the grammar points, and that's helping me focus on specific areas. I've still not found a good way to use Anki (or any other SRS) to help with internalising grammar. So far, exposure and time seem to be the only ways that the more complex stuff is sticking. That may also be how the simpler stuff is sticking too: after all, it crops up everywhere, so there's constant reinforcement. I guess I need to push harder to find more time for reading of some form or other. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 26 of 91 01 February 2015 at 9:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I've been activating more words in my Kanji deck. In particular, I've been using the
custom study feature to activate specifically those words that I didn't know in my graded readers. I've since been few a few of those again and I can see that working through the words in Anki has certainly helped. I've managed to get through the prologue of イタリア幻想曲, and I'm certainly going to continue with that book, but I think the next thing I'm going to do is to activate the new words from Japanese Short Stories and concentrate on a few of those to see if I see the same helpful improvement there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 27 of 91 04 February 2015 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Time to review my January goals.
1. I'm going to read at least 200 pages for the Super Challenge. As with December, reading will be the priority. Well the priorities waxed and waned throughout the month, but I met my target of 200 pages. 2. I'm going to intensively read more of Japanese Short Stories. It's taking me ~15m/page to do this, so 10 pages each week is a reasonable goal. I'd forgotten about this target, but I did meet it. 3. Counting the intensive reading, I want to read 200 pages in January. The idea is to make sure that I read quite a bit of Japanese, in terms of quantity. This is to supplement the quality reading that goal #2 will hopefully give me. I need to proof-read my goals: this is #1 repeated :-) 4. I'll aim to reach chapter "G" of 新完全マスター N2 文法 by the end of the month. A-D were quite a stretch, but the next few seem to be less "intense". Done. In fact I put more time into the N3 book than the N2 one, but my N2 goal was fairly easy. 5. I'm going to shadow 10 lessons of JPOD101 Upper Intermediate season 1. I found this quite helpful last month and I'd like to keep up the good work. Done. 6. Anki: Vocabulary and Kanji decks: I'll just keep these going. Done. In fact I've re-introduced the sentence deck and I've been activating more entries in the kanji deck. 7. RTK: I'll continue to keep this up to date. Done. In fact I've added a vrey modest number of new kanji. 8. Continue listening to dialogue tracks. Done. 9. I'm going to watch at 3 hours of drama/anime for the Super Challenge each week. Done. Well I missed the minimum by 3 minutes one week, but overall, my average has been well above 3 hours per week. Overall I've met all the goals, but then they weren't that ambitious. I'm reaching the point where my graded readers are now no longer a challenge, in fact I think re-reading them only helps me with retaining some "fairy tale" type vocabulary. So I think I need to find something somewhere between those and light novels to provide material I can get through without struggling too much. I'm finding that doing the exercises in the N3 grammar book is helping to pin-point those grammar points that I need to review and those that are reasonably well embedded in my head. I'll try to complete the N3 book by February and then plough through the N2 book using the same method. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5340 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 28 of 91 04 February 2015 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Well done on meeting your goals for January. It looks like it was a pretty productive month.
By the way, I’ve finally read through your Another 日本語 Journal. What an inspiration! You’ve clearly worked hard and consistently on your Japanese and you absolutely deserve the amazing results you’re achieving. Call me a skeptic and a pessimist, but I never thought that a self-learner (i.e. not someone living in the country or studying at university in the kind of environment and with the kind of pressure that makes language learning your priority in life) could aim at taking the N2 exam in just over three years. You’ve made me change my mind. Now, if only a little of your single-mindedness could rub off on me! ;-) Edited by Emme on 04 February 2015 at 4:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4840 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 29 of 91 05 February 2015 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Fantastic month! Congratulations! Eat some chocolate or something!
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 30 of 91 05 February 2015 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks. I set relatively achievable goals so I could start the year with a success!
Well it'll be at least 3-1/2 years or 4 years (depending on whether I go for July or December) before I sit N2 ... passing is a different ball game :-) 3 years ago I certainly didn't realise quite how long the road would be. I think the main thing I've learnt in those years is how long the remaining road is. Still, I have come much further along than I could have imagined, so that's quite pleasing.
Judging by how much you got done in TAC 2014 I think you've got enough grit and determination already! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 31 of 91 05 February 2015 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks. Luckily I don't like chocolate, otherwise I'd be completely round and that would put paid to the Japanese listening during the evening cycle ride. (Although I seem to be chickening out of that quite often given the sub-zero temperatures and the lure of HTLAL!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4658 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 32 of 91 14 February 2015 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Having forgotten to update my activity log
for over three weeks, I've also forgotten to record my goals for February. I've had these goals since the first week and I have been working towards them, I just forgot to add them to this log. 1. I'm going to read at least 200 pages for the Super Challenge. 2. I'll aim to reach the end of 新完全マスター N3 文法 by the end of the month. As a stretch goal, I'd like to get the exercises done too. 3. I'm going to shadow all of JPOD101 Upper Intermediate season 2. 4. Anki: Vocabulary and Kanji decks: I'll just keep these going. I'm going to try to activate 400 words to the Kanji deck. I'm not, however, going to go back over my log and work out whether I've managed to do this as it's too hard. If I set this goal again next month, then I'll record some stats at the beginning of the month to make tracking easier! 5. RTK: I'll continue to keep this up to date. 6. Continue listening to dialogue tracks. 7. I'm going to watch at 3 hours of drama/anime for the Super Challenge each week. Edited by dampingwire on 14 February 2015 at 10:24pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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