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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 137 of 256 27 September 2013 at 12:13am \| IP Logged
	2013-09-22 32h39m Audio: 18:59 Vocab: 9:52 Reading: 0:13 Grammar: 3:35 Just a brief update. Everything is going smoothly. RTK and memrise are up to date. I've managed to SRS as far as lesson 41 of JPOD101 LI S1, although the intensive listening is still back at #15 or so. Memrise reviews are about 25m/day so the rate at which it is throwing vocab at me is decreasing: I'm usually at the 75% correct mark now on most 15 word sessions. I've put some of the resulting time into grammar reviews. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 138 of 256 01 October 2013 at 12:18am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-09-29 26h09m Audio: 15:22 Vocab: 3:45 Reading: 1:13 Grammar: 5:49 I've managed to SRS all the way to lesson 50 of JPOD101 S1, so I should be able to get the last 5 lessons done before the end of September. I'd intended to both SRS and intensively listen to ~15 lessons and I've already done that. I'll probably go over those first few lessons one more time briefly and then work on intensive listening and shadowing for the rest of the series. I've also noticed that this series, unlike most of the others, doesn't have separate dialog-only tracks, so I'll have to fire up audacity and chop out the dialog myself. I've also managed to complete electronic grammar notes for all but 4 chapters of Minna no Nihongo II. I should be able to get those last 4 out of the way next week, and then I'll start to use these to revise grammar somewhat more rigorously. RTK is up to date (well, I neglected it over the past few days but I've just caught up relatively painlessly). Memrise is taking 15-20 mins per day now quite consistently. I managed to get two more units of A Homestay in Japan read intensively. I keep forgetting kanji so I need to read and re-read this story quite a bit more. As the time I need to spend on memrise seems to have peaked, I should be able to spend more time on reading. I did go back briefly to one ofthe JLPT 3 listening tests and it did seem to be easier this time around. I don't know if that's just because I've sat N4 and so my brain "knows" it should be able to cope with this or whether I've done a lot of JPOD101 intermediate listening lessons lately and so I'm becoming used to the vocabulary and structures. I'm not sure I care: it's becoming better and that's all that matters :-) 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 139 of 256 15 October 2013 at 9:03pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-06 28h38m Audio: 15:34 Vocab: 7:17 Reading: 1:46 Grammar: 4:01 W/E 2013-10-13 25h21m Grammar: 12:21 Vocab: 5:04 Reading: 3:37 Grammar: 4:19 Over the last two weeks I've managed to finish making notes on the Minna no Nihongo books from about lesson 13 to the end. The earlier lessons are mostly very basic s oI'm not sure that I'll bother with those. I'm going to go through the All About Particles book and do the same thing, but only for the more common particles for now. I've managed to finish re-reading A Homestay In Japan. I'll give it a third pass soon: this time I'll make a note of all of the kanji vocabulary as not all of it seems to have stuck so far. The memrise N3 course currently seems to be under control at less than 20m per day. So I've started to work through the Anki decks again. By last Sunday I'd managed to catch up on all the decks, although I have cut down the new cards to a dribble for now. I've switched the audio during commutes over to just the dialogue tracks from the JPOD101 Lower Intermediate lessons. I had to make my own for the first 35 or so lessons of season 1, but I think it's well worth the effort. I still need to get further through the intensive listening as I can notice a considerable difference bewteen the lessons I have donw this for and those that I have not yet tackled. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 140 of 256 22 October 2013 at 12:50am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-13 30h23m Audio: 14:49 Vocab: 4:41 Reading: 4:27 Grammar: 6:26 I've mostly been listening to dialogue tracks (pure Japanese, no English) during the commute. So far this has gone quite well: I think my comprehension is improving. Either that or I've heard them so much I've simply memorised them :-) I've kept up RTK and memrise but now I've put some effort into Anki and I've caught that up too. So now I'm back up to date with everything. I'm continuing to make notes on the grammar. As Minna no Nihongo is virtually done now, I've started to work on All About Particles. In addition I've managed to get listen intensively to one dialog track each day. I've also started to go through A Homestay in Japan and building a set of kanji vocabulary that I need to internalise. Now I just need to find a few spare moments to get going on みんなの日本語　中級 I! Edited by dampingwire on 28 October 2013 at 3:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 141 of 256 28 October 2013 at 3:20pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-27 31:41 Audio: 14:27 Vocab: 5:32 Reading: 6:21 Grammar: 5:21 I've managed to keep up the intensive listening that I've been doing and I'm up to lesson #37 now. During my commute now I've switched to listening to just the lower intermediate dialogue tracks and I've noticed that I'm able to follow quite a bit more now. I've also finished the last of the grammar notes on the material covered by みんなの日本語初級 I & II. I think I'll do the same thing for All About Particles, at least for the particles that I've come across up to now. Then I'll get started on the 日本語総まとめ N3 文法 book. I've also been going through A Homestay in Japan again, this time I've read each unit and produced a list of new kanji vocabulary for each unit. I'm halfway through so far. the idea is to make sure that I can recognise all the vocabulary when I come to go through this book with my tutor in a few weeks. The memrise N3 course if fully up to date and requires only about 10 minutes of maintenance each day. I'll make a start on the kanji side of this soon. Anki is fully up to date too. It's currently taking ~30m each day. I've started to learn more vocabulary there too but I'm currently restricting myself to that which I've entered from the lessons to which I've been intensively listening. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 142 of 256 07 November 2013 at 12:07am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-03 28h59m Audio: 10:53 Vocab: 12:27 Reading: 2:19 Grammar: 3:20 My intensive listening has reached lesson 44. Once I finish season 1 I think I'll review the lessons and try and pick off those bits that didn't stick first time around. I'm still working my way through new grammar points. I still have a few pertinent particles from the All About Particles book to get through. Then I think I'll work through the bits of DOBJG that I can see on scribd. After that I'll start on Nihongo Sou Matome. I have a list of kanji vocabulary for A Homestay in Japan. I still need to read through the final five units. Then I'm going to go through again with a notebook by my side and no computer (hence no dictionary) and I'll note down everything that I don't understand and all vocabulary that I don't remember. Memrise and Anki are both up to date. I have 150 sentences still to review but I'm happy to leave those trickling in at 5 new ones/day for the moment. I have over 600 vocabulary items to learn and I think I'll probably custom study some of those most days. I'm going to aim for an average of 20/day, say 140/week, so I should have seen all of them by Christmas. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 143 of 256 15 November 2013 at 8:59pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-10 32h45m Audio: 16:10 Vocab: 9:19 Reading: 1:14 Grammar: 6:02 I decided to go back and read (not work) through the Oxford Japanese Grammar & Verbs book that I picked up last year. I remember finding it quite tough going almost 18 months ago, but thsi time around there were very few grammar points that I didn't at least recognise. At some point I think I'll go through and systematically mine it for vocabulary and sentences. I'm planning to work through another 600 vocabulary items in Anki for TAC this month. I was going to aim for ~30/day but, given an apparent inability to drive Anki properly, I actually added 339 this week. So far the reviews haven't been too horrendous. I also plan to finish intensive listening of the remaining LI S1 tracks and all 26 of the S2 ones. By the end of this week I'd finished S1 and managed the first 4 of S2. I've finished making electronic notes of MNN I & II and I've gone over the first 15 chapters this week. It's all very straightforward stuff so mostly this has been a check that my notes make sense. I did listen to a few Upper Intermediate lessons and I did find them tough but the actual dialogues didn't seem that bad. The few grammar points that I've looked at were new but not excessively complicated. The lessons seemed tough, I think, mostly because the presenters discussion is very much "Japanese with an occasional English snippet". I might try working through one lesson dialogue thoroughly later on once I'm done with LI S2. I've reached Unit 16 in my intensive reading of A Homestay in Japan. I've also prepared a list of kanji vocabulary that I need to print off and study in the next week or so. Inspired by the consistency thread, I decided to try and make notes on one new grammar point per day. I'm using All About Particles or Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar as the mood takes me on any given day. I've prepared a list of all the DOBJG headwords and, looking down the list, it looks like a good 80% of them are already covered (at least to some extent) by my existing notes based on MNN and AAP. Given the reputation that the DO*JG series has, that's quite pleasing. I'm still listening to the JPOD101 LI dialogues (all six seasons) during the commute to and from work. They cycle round completely in about 2 days so I've heard each of them multiple times now. There are some which are now clear as day and some which are still quite vague and woolly. But generally things seem much better than they were even just a few months ago. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 144 of 256 25 November 2013 at 2:43pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-17 33h35m Audio: 15:24 Vocab: 12:58 Reading: 0:00 Grammar: 5:13 W/E 2013-11-24 26h43m Audio: 12:31 Vocab: 9:03 Reading: 1:01 Grammar: 4:08 Two weeks worth of updates this time. I've reached (and completed) lesson #23 in my intensive listening plan so I should be able to complete season 2 in the next few days, which was one of my goals for November. As I keep listening to the LI dialogues during my commute they are becoming easier and easier to understand. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I've been missing so much until now that it's quite a pleasant surprise to find that all that listening did help after all. I've put most of the kanji vocabulary from A Homestay in Japan into Anki and I'm staring to activate it. I should be starting to work through this book in my tutorials from this week, so it'll be interesting to see exactly how much I'm missing when reading! Memrise and Anki are being kept more or less up to date. I've not been doing memrise every day as I seem to be able to catch up very quickly. Similarly I've let the Anki sentences deck slip but I'll get that going again this week I hope. I'm in two minds about how useful memrise is for kanji. What I'd like to be able to do (optionally) is be presented with English translation and have time to write out the kanji on paper before entering the kana and using IME to make the kanji. That way I can check whether I do remember the kanji rather than the kana. As it stands there's just not enough time to do this before it shows me the kanji anyway. I suppose I could minimize the browser and then maximise it again when I've written the kanji, but that's a bit of a palaver. My kanji deck will provide me with plenty of kanji->meaning drilling, so it's really something->kanji that I'd like to get out of memrise. I've reviewd MNN (again) as far as chapter 32. I may not get through all of the rest before the end of the month. But I'll keep going into December if necessary as it's still a helpful refresher. 1 person has voted this message useful

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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 137 of 256 27 September 2013 at 12:13am \| IP Logged
	2013-09-22 32h39m Audio: 18:59 Vocab: 9:52 Reading: 0:13 Grammar: 3:35 Just a brief update. Everything is going smoothly. RTK and memrise are up to date. I've managed to SRS as far as lesson 41 of JPOD101 LI S1, although the intensive listening is still back at #15 or so. Memrise reviews are about 25m/day so the rate at which it is throwing vocab at me is decreasing: I'm usually at the 75% correct mark now on most 15 word sessions. I've put some of the resulting time into grammar reviews. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 138 of 256 01 October 2013 at 12:18am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-09-29 26h09m Audio: 15:22 Vocab: 3:45 Reading: 1:13 Grammar: 5:49 I've managed to SRS all the way to lesson 50 of JPOD101 S1, so I should be able to get the last 5 lessons done before the end of September. I'd intended to both SRS and intensively listen to ~15 lessons and I've already done that. I'll probably go over those first few lessons one more time briefly and then work on intensive listening and shadowing for the rest of the series. I've also noticed that this series, unlike most of the others, doesn't have separate dialog-only tracks, so I'll have to fire up audacity and chop out the dialog myself. I've also managed to complete electronic grammar notes for all but 4 chapters of Minna no Nihongo II. I should be able to get those last 4 out of the way next week, and then I'll start to use these to revise grammar somewhat more rigorously. RTK is up to date (well, I neglected it over the past few days but I've just caught up relatively painlessly). Memrise is taking 15-20 mins per day now quite consistently. I managed to get two more units of A Homestay in Japan read intensively. I keep forgetting kanji so I need to read and re-read this story quite a bit more. As the time I need to spend on memrise seems to have peaked, I should be able to spend more time on reading. I did go back briefly to one ofthe JLPT 3 listening tests and it did seem to be easier this time around. I don't know if that's just because I've sat N4 and so my brain "knows" it should be able to cope with this or whether I've done a lot of JPOD101 intermediate listening lessons lately and so I'm becoming used to the vocabulary and structures. I'm not sure I care: it's becoming better and that's all that matters :-) 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 139 of 256 15 October 2013 at 9:03pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-06 28h38m Audio: 15:34 Vocab: 7:17 Reading: 1:46 Grammar: 4:01 W/E 2013-10-13 25h21m Grammar: 12:21 Vocab: 5:04 Reading: 3:37 Grammar: 4:19 Over the last two weeks I've managed to finish making notes on the Minna no Nihongo books from about lesson 13 to the end. The earlier lessons are mostly very basic s oI'm not sure that I'll bother with those. I'm going to go through the All About Particles book and do the same thing, but only for the more common particles for now. I've managed to finish re-reading A Homestay In Japan. I'll give it a third pass soon: this time I'll make a note of all of the kanji vocabulary as not all of it seems to have stuck so far. The memrise N3 course currently seems to be under control at less than 20m per day. So I've started to work through the Anki decks again. By last Sunday I'd managed to catch up on all the decks, although I have cut down the new cards to a dribble for now. I've switched the audio during commutes over to just the dialogue tracks from the JPOD101 Lower Intermediate lessons. I had to make my own for the first 35 or so lessons of season 1, but I think it's well worth the effort. I still need to get further through the intensive listening as I can notice a considerable difference bewteen the lessons I have donw this for and those that I have not yet tackled. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 140 of 256 22 October 2013 at 12:50am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-13 30h23m Audio: 14:49 Vocab: 4:41 Reading: 4:27 Grammar: 6:26 I've mostly been listening to dialogue tracks (pure Japanese, no English) during the commute. So far this has gone quite well: I think my comprehension is improving. Either that or I've heard them so much I've simply memorised them :-) I've kept up RTK and memrise but now I've put some effort into Anki and I've caught that up too. So now I'm back up to date with everything. I'm continuing to make notes on the grammar. As Minna no Nihongo is virtually done now, I've started to work on All About Particles. In addition I've managed to get listen intensively to one dialog track each day. I've also started to go through A Homestay in Japan and building a set of kanji vocabulary that I need to internalise. Now I just need to find a few spare moments to get going on みんなの日本語　中級 I! Edited by dampingwire on 28 October 2013 at 3:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 141 of 256 28 October 2013 at 3:20pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-10-27 31:41 Audio: 14:27 Vocab: 5:32 Reading: 6:21 Grammar: 5:21 I've managed to keep up the intensive listening that I've been doing and I'm up to lesson #37 now. During my commute now I've switched to listening to just the lower intermediate dialogue tracks and I've noticed that I'm able to follow quite a bit more now. I've also finished the last of the grammar notes on the material covered by みんなの日本語初級 I & II. I think I'll do the same thing for All About Particles, at least for the particles that I've come across up to now. Then I'll get started on the 日本語総まとめ N3 文法 book. I've also been going through A Homestay in Japan again, this time I've read each unit and produced a list of new kanji vocabulary for each unit. I'm halfway through so far. the idea is to make sure that I can recognise all the vocabulary when I come to go through this book with my tutor in a few weeks. The memrise N3 course if fully up to date and requires only about 10 minutes of maintenance each day. I'll make a start on the kanji side of this soon. Anki is fully up to date too. It's currently taking ~30m each day. I've started to learn more vocabulary there too but I'm currently restricting myself to that which I've entered from the lessons to which I've been intensively listening. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 142 of 256 07 November 2013 at 12:07am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-03 28h59m Audio: 10:53 Vocab: 12:27 Reading: 2:19 Grammar: 3:20 My intensive listening has reached lesson 44. Once I finish season 1 I think I'll review the lessons and try and pick off those bits that didn't stick first time around. I'm still working my way through new grammar points. I still have a few pertinent particles from the All About Particles book to get through. Then I think I'll work through the bits of DOBJG that I can see on scribd. After that I'll start on Nihongo Sou Matome. I have a list of kanji vocabulary for A Homestay in Japan. I still need to read through the final five units. Then I'm going to go through again with a notebook by my side and no computer (hence no dictionary) and I'll note down everything that I don't understand and all vocabulary that I don't remember. Memrise and Anki are both up to date. I have 150 sentences still to review but I'm happy to leave those trickling in at 5 new ones/day for the moment. I have over 600 vocabulary items to learn and I think I'll probably custom study some of those most days. I'm going to aim for an average of 20/day, say 140/week, so I should have seen all of them by Christmas. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 143 of 256 15 November 2013 at 8:59pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-10 32h45m Audio: 16:10 Vocab: 9:19 Reading: 1:14 Grammar: 6:02 I decided to go back and read (not work) through the Oxford Japanese Grammar & Verbs book that I picked up last year. I remember finding it quite tough going almost 18 months ago, but thsi time around there were very few grammar points that I didn't at least recognise. At some point I think I'll go through and systematically mine it for vocabulary and sentences. I'm planning to work through another 600 vocabulary items in Anki for TAC this month. I was going to aim for ~30/day but, given an apparent inability to drive Anki properly, I actually added 339 this week. So far the reviews haven't been too horrendous. I also plan to finish intensive listening of the remaining LI S1 tracks and all 26 of the S2 ones. By the end of this week I'd finished S1 and managed the first 4 of S2. I've finished making electronic notes of MNN I & II and I've gone over the first 15 chapters this week. It's all very straightforward stuff so mostly this has been a check that my notes make sense. I did listen to a few Upper Intermediate lessons and I did find them tough but the actual dialogues didn't seem that bad. The few grammar points that I've looked at were new but not excessively complicated. The lessons seemed tough, I think, mostly because the presenters discussion is very much "Japanese with an occasional English snippet". I might try working through one lesson dialogue thoroughly later on once I'm done with LI S2. I've reached Unit 16 in my intensive reading of A Homestay in Japan. I've also prepared a list of kanji vocabulary that I need to print off and study in the next week or so. Inspired by the consistency thread, I decided to try and make notes on one new grammar point per day. I'm using All About Particles or Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar as the mood takes me on any given day. I've prepared a list of all the DOBJG headwords and, looking down the list, it looks like a good 80% of them are already covered (at least to some extent) by my existing notes based on MNN and AAP. Given the reputation that the DO*JG series has, that's quite pleasing. I'm still listening to the JPOD101 LI dialogues (all six seasons) during the commute to and from work. They cycle round completely in about 2 days so I've heard each of them multiple times now. There are some which are now clear as day and some which are still quite vague and woolly. But generally things seem much better than they were even just a few months ago. 1 person has voted this message useful
dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English, Italian, French Studies: Japanese	Message 144 of 256 25 November 2013 at 2:43pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2013-11-17 33h35m Audio: 15:24 Vocab: 12:58 Reading: 0:00 Grammar: 5:13 W/E 2013-11-24 26h43m Audio: 12:31 Vocab: 9:03 Reading: 1:01 Grammar: 4:08 Two weeks worth of updates this time. I've reached (and completed) lesson #23 in my intensive listening plan so I should be able to complete season 2 in the next few days, which was one of my goals for November. As I keep listening to the LI dialogues during my commute they are becoming easier and easier to understand. I know I shouldn't be surprised, but I've been missing so much until now that it's quite a pleasant surprise to find that all that listening did help after all. I've put most of the kanji vocabulary from A Homestay in Japan into Anki and I'm staring to activate it. I should be starting to work through this book in my tutorials from this week, so it'll be interesting to see exactly how much I'm missing when reading! Memrise and Anki are being kept more or less up to date. I've not been doing memrise every day as I seem to be able to catch up very quickly. Similarly I've let the Anki sentences deck slip but I'll get that going again this week I hope. I'm in two minds about how useful memrise is for kanji. What I'd like to be able to do (optionally) is be presented with English translation and have time to write out the kanji on paper before entering the kana and using IME to make the kanji. That way I can check whether I do remember the kanji rather than the kana. As it stands there's just not enough time to do this before it shows me the kanji anyway. I suppose I could minimize the browser and then maximise it again when I've written the kanji, but that's a bit of a palaver. My kanji deck will provide me with plenty of kanji->meaning drilling, so it's really something->kanji that I'd like to get out of memrise. I've reviewd MNN (again) as far as chapter 32. I may not get through all of the rest before the end of the month. But I'll keep going into December if necessary as it's still a helpful refresher. 1 person has voted this message useful