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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 129 of 256 15 July 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-07-07 32h31m
Audio: 20:35 Vocab: 2:25 Reading: 0:48 Grammar: 8:43 W/E 2013-07-14 30h02m Audio: 17:04 Vocab: 11:02 Reading: 0:15 Grammar: 1:41 Again only one update in two weeks, but I hope things will calm down a little from now. I managed to plant 315 words on the memrise N3 course. That's well ahead of my schedule. Checking more carefully I see there are 1740 words (plus those words again in Kanji). In all I'm 375 words in. If I can manage 200/week then I'll be through the vocabulary in 7 weeks and the kanji will take another 8 weeks. So that would be about 4 months, allowing for holidays and so on. So an optimistic schedule would mean I'd know the vocabulary by the end of November. The next N3 exam is the beginning of December so that would be cutting it far too fine (and the vocabulary schedule would leave little time for grammar and reading). So I'll try to keep the aggressive schedule for vocabulary and see how the grammar goes. But N3 in December is unrealistic. Whether I do it next summer or skip it entirely is yet to be determined. I've also started to work through Nihongo So-Matome grammar. There are 42 "days" worth of work and I seem to be able to manage 3 "days" per week. However, I also want to work through the Minna No Nihongo Chuukyuu lessons (25 total I think) with my tutor and I probably want to look at Kanzen masuta too. So I'll be happy if I get to the end of NSM by the end of the year. I'm also working through the JPOD101 Lower Intermediate Season 6 doing some intensive listening and shadowing. I should sit down and work out a more balanced schedule rather than just doing whatever seems to be most convenient at the time (although that's worked OK so far!). RTK has been kept up to date pretty much every day. Anki has slipped but I've just caught up the vocabulary without too much trouble, so there's just the sentences to catch up on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 130 of 256 30 July 2013 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-07-21 29h26m
Audio: 12:02 Vocab: 12:29 Reading: 1:49 Grammar: 3:06 W/E 2013-07-28 18h44m Audio: 11:32 Vocab: 5:09 Grammar: 2:03 I've been really quite busy over the last week or so: partly DIY and partly getting ready for a trip to Italy. I've kept up the audio during the commute, but RTK has slipped as has Anki. I've reached 900 N3 words planted on memrise but there are now ~500 that need watering. I'll be in Italy soon for a week and I'm not planning to take any Japanese books: I expect that the time will be spent sight-seeing and meeting family. Hopefully I'll get back into the swing of things quickly once I'm back. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 131 of 256 06 August 2013 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-07-28 18h44m
Audio: 11:32 Vocab: 5:09 Grammar: 2:03 This week was mostly vocabulary on memrise and some audio. I kept RTK up to date but other than that not much was done. The weekend vanished into DIY. W/E 2013-08-04 7h30m Audio: 2:56 Vocab: 1:24 Grammar: 3:10 Most of this week was spent on holiday in Italy (so at least I got to speak some Italian!). I eventually decided to take along the Nihongo So-Matome N3 grammar book, and I worked through that on the plane and during the required siestas, although the 39 degree heat did mean that I didn't always feel like doing any form of grammar! I did run into one Japanese tourist in the hotel and actually managed to point him to the right floor for his hotel room. Whether it was what I said of the finger pointing though, I don't know. He did seem both surprised and pleased that I knew any Japanese at all (and, to be honest, I felt the same too!). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 132 of 256 15 August 2013 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-08-11 27h02m
Audio: 14:11 Vocab: 10:15 Grammar: 2:36 Most of this week was spent getting RTK, memrise and Anki back under control. RTK was fairly easy and I was pleasantly surprised that nothing bad seemed to have happened to the kanji in my head. My retention on memrise seemed shaky at first but after the first accumulated hour or so, things calmed down and words started to come back. I think the ropey start might be because I've yet to get comfortable with the N3 vocabulary: quite a lot of it has yet to properly seep into my brain. Considering that Monday was pure holiday, I managed to get a decent amount of audio listening done. I've thrown Season 4 of the Lower Intermediate course into the mix. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 133 of 256 23 August 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-08-18 29h52m
Audio: 15:02 Vocab: 8:59 Reading: 1:45 Grammar: 4:00 Friday onwards I was on holiday. I took a few books to read on the beach and I managed to listen to quite a lot of audio on the way to Dorset (the traffic is always bad down there ...). before going, I started to work through a book about Particles, but, although I did take it with me, I didn't get around to looking at it again whilst on holiday. It did seem to be quite useful so I hope to get back to it soon. Most of the grammar was going through Nihongo So-Matome N3 grammar again, although I did manage to do some Minna No Nihongo revision. I kept RTK and memrise going (we took a laptop) but mostly I just relaxed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 134 of 256 27 August 2013 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-08-25 21h
Audio: 5:09 Vocab: 11:30 Reading: 0:44 Grammar: 3:37 I returned from holiday on Friday. Whilst away I got through a little audio and went over some of Nihongo So-Matome N3 Grammar. I managed to keep RTK more or less up to date and did a little bit of memrise N3 work in the evenings. Back at home I've caught up with Anki and resumed sentence mining the Minna no Nihongo books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 135 of 256 09 September 2013 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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W/E 2013-09-08 33h43m
Audio: 14:20 Vocab: 13:32 Reading: 1:03 Grammar: 4:05 I managed to plant the last of the N3 words on memrise on Friday and over Saturday and Sunday I managed to water the whole garden. By this morning there were 575 plants awaiting watering so I guess it'll be a week or so before the time I spend on memrise starts to dip. I had some spare time so I caught up on Anki over the weekend too - in fact I managed to release some new words too. Overall I spent just over 2-1/2 hours on Anki, so I think I can probably manage to do more than I expected here. I have over 600 new words and 89 new sentences to work on in Anki if I have the time. I managed to cover 4 chapters of Minna No Nihongo and studied 3 JPOD101 Lower Intermediate lessons. So for this week at least, I've met all my TAC goals. I do want to try some more reading so I think I'll put some time towards reading "A Homestay In Japan" again over the next few weeks. Edited by dampingwire on 09 September 2013 at 11:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4668 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 136 of 256 16 September 2013 at 9:58pm | IP Logged |
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W?E 2013-09-15 32h07m
Audio: 17:32 vocab: 10:53 Reading: 1:14 Grammar: 2:28 This week I've managed to get quite lot of vocabulary work done, mostly trying to get the memrise N3 course under control. It's still throwing 250-400 reviews at me each day so I'm tackling it in 15m chunks rather than trying to finish it off in one go. I've not done so much with Anki this week although my sentence deck is sufficiently small that I'm managing to get it done just by working on it in odd moments. I have managed to get through the vocabulary deck too, but without allowing it to throw many new words at me. I have managed to study a fair few JPOD101 L1 S1 lessons this week. I've found that I prefer to work through a few lessons (3 or 4 at a time) adding new vocabulary and sentences to Anki and then doing some intensive listening (1 or two lessons at a time usually) later in the day or the following day. That way I've managed to get up to lesson 21 for the SRS and lesson 17 for the intensive listening. So, for the moment, I'm ahead of my TAC goals. I've managed to revise the grammar of about 3 chapters of Minna no Nihongo, which is about as much as I expected to do. I did start some intensive reading too and worked through chapter 5 of A Homestay in Japan. I've been keeping up the audio during the commute: rather than repeating a given season a few times, I'm now working through from the first Lower Intermediate lesson to the last. I've kept RTK up to date. It's taking about 10 minutes each day and throwing anywhere from 40-60 reviews at me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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