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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 169 of 256 27 April 2014 at 8:43pm \| IP Logged
	I seem to be further behind with my logging than I thought, so here's a quick catch-up. W/E 2014-04-20 25h46m Audio: 10:08 Vocab: 4:20 Reading: 3:19 Grammar: 0:00 Video: 7:59 No grammar this week, instead I've been concentrating on reading NHK News and various watching J-Dramas. I've kept the Anki decks up to date and I've started to make some headway with the j- Drama anki deck. Everything else is chugging along as before. 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 170 of 256 01 May 2014 at 9:56pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-04-27 32h46m Audio: 13:01 Vocab: 6:49 Reading: 2:29 Grammar: 4:10 Video: 6:17 I've finished mining みんなの日本語中級 for vocabulary, although I've yet to activate any of that in Anki. I only managed two NHK News articles this week, but I have started to get back into the swing of things with grammar. Anki is up to date. I've managed to watch a fair bit of Japanese drama (about 6 hours worth) and I've gone back to watching a bit of 凪のあすから to see if the subs2srs deck is helping (which it seems to be). 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 171 of 256 05 May 2014 at 11:29pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-05-04 40h18m Audio: 15:26 Vocab: 3:16 Reading: 8:30 Grammar: 5:54 Video: 6:26 S:C Books: book: 126 pages, film: 6h37m So the SC has started and I'm participating. My previous rate of drama/anime watching should be more than enough to complete the 100 films (150 hours) in 20 months. Reading will be much more of a challenge so this week I went through my graded readers. That means next week I'll have to tackle something tougher. Overall I read 9 NHK News articles, but all before the SC began. I've managed to get back into the 新完全マスタ groove and I'm working through the grammar again. Each time through the book I notice a an additional point or two, which is good. I've kept Anki and RTK up to date throughout this week. I had Friday off this week, so I managed to get over 7 hours of Japanese done. Normal service will be resumed next week :-) 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 172 of 256 16 May 2014 at 1:50am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-05-11 31h22m Audio: 13:48 Vocab: 7:35 Reading: 2:35 Grammar: 1:33 Video: 5:51 S:C Books: 4 pages, film: 11h59m Although I did watch a fair bit of drama this week, reading did indeed prove tougher: in fact I didn't pick up a book at all and the page count was entirely down to 7 NHK News articles I read in one day. I did spend some time going through the mock test papers, looking for vocabulary to mine, but I've yet to activate that in Anki. Interestingly, only a few of the "new" grammar points that I've been studying cropped up (わけ and はず). 1 person has voted this message useful
kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5187 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese	Message 173 of 256 16 May 2014 at 2:24am \| IP Logged
	I think those are both really good ones. They were taught in my Japanese 202 course and fit well in conversation. And はず just gets used in anime all the time. 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 174 of 256 02 June 2014 at 11:51pm \| IP Logged
	Did I really not update for three weeks? Wow! W/E 2014-05-18 34h24m Audio: 13:58 Vocab: 2:00 Reading: 13:45 Grammar: 1:25 Video: 3:16 SC: Books: 66 pages, film: 10h15m W/E 2014-05-25 35h55m Audio: 10:49 Vocab: 2:41 Reading: 9:37 Grammar: 3:05 Video: 9:43 SC: Books: 48 pages, film: 15h07m W/E 2014-06-01 30h15m Audio: 7:00 Vocab: 1:47 Reading: 5:28 Grammar: 7:04 Video: 8:56 SC: Books: 70 pages, film: 11h56m So what have I managed to fit in in those 3 weeks? I've finished the Penguin Parallel Text (Short Stories) and also re-read A Homestay In Japan. I read the Penguin extensively, using the accompanying translation to make sense of the Japanese. AHIJ I've already read a few times before, so this time I was able to concentrate on the Japanese and not need to look anything up (although I did sometimes use the running gloss). A little bit of my reading has been on NHK News but only a handful of pages worth here and there. I've managed to pick up where I'd left off in the grammar book and I expect to finish it in the next few days. At that point I'll go through 日本語総まとめ N3 文法 one more time to see what still hasn't stuck. I've been watching quite a lot of drama, some with subs, some without and some without and then the same episode with. I feel like I'm beginning to hear words through the fog, so hopefully things are getting better. I've been going through the mock tests with my tutor and things are looking OK for the JLPT. By "OK" I mean that the mocks weren't the complete disaster that I thought they were, but they weren't anything to write home about either. Hopefully I've improved a bit in the last month. I've not activated any new vocabulary or kanji in Anki: instead I've concentrated on keeping the current vocabulary fresh. Finally I've (literally) just received my JLPT test voucher from SOAS, so it looks like I will be sitting the N3 in July! 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 175 of 256 11 June 2014 at 1:01am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-06-08 32h13m Audio: 12:27 Vocab: 1:49 Reading: 7:44 Grammar: 2:57 Video: 7:16 SC: Books: 48 pages, film: 13h29m I've managed to do a decent amount of reading this week. I finished "Reading Japanese with a Smile", which actually is only about 15 pages of Japanese, the rest being English or gloss. On top of that I've managed to read quite a bit of NHK News. My tutor is away for three weeks, so she's left me the mock test book, which means I should try to fit in two complete N3 mock tests over the next week or two. I'm sure I've finished 新完全マスター N3 文法, but my spreadsheet says I've only reached the end of Part 2. I'll have to check more carefully and then get around to some 日本語総まとめ N3 文法. I guess the next few weeks will mostly be spent trying to consolidate those things that I need to know for the JLPT N3 early next month. World Cup permitting, of course! 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 176 of 256 23 June 2014 at 11:06am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-06-15 30h27m Audio: 16:12 Vocab: 3:59 Reading: 6:49 Grammar: 1:10 Video: 1:30 W/E 2014-06-22 33h39m Audio: 11:47 Vocab: 9:15 Reading: 6:32 Grammar: 3:39 Video 2:26 SC: Books: 32 pages, film: 8h19m Over the last two weeks my focus has shifted slightly away from watching drama and back towards reading and a little grammar. I've also been working through a few mock exams. I had printed off a few (old) JLPT 2 past papers, as I didn't have any N3 mock tests to work through, but now that my tutor has supplied a few mock test books for me to look at, I've got more than enough of the real thing to work through. I've also worked through an N3 vocabulary book, picking out the terms that I didn't recognise, so I'll be working through those in Anki over the next two weeks. I'll be careful not to overload though, as there's plenty of other stuff I want to work through for preparation too. 1 person has voted this message useful

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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 169 of 256 27 April 2014 at 8:43pm \| IP Logged
	I seem to be further behind with my logging than I thought, so here's a quick catch-up. W/E 2014-04-20 25h46m Audio: 10:08 Vocab: 4:20 Reading: 3:19 Grammar: 0:00 Video: 7:59 No grammar this week, instead I've been concentrating on reading NHK News and various watching J-Dramas. I've kept the Anki decks up to date and I've started to make some headway with the j- Drama anki deck. Everything else is chugging along as before. 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 170 of 256 01 May 2014 at 9:56pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-04-27 32h46m Audio: 13:01 Vocab: 6:49 Reading: 2:29 Grammar: 4:10 Video: 6:17 I've finished mining みんなの日本語中級 for vocabulary, although I've yet to activate any of that in Anki. I only managed two NHK News articles this week, but I have started to get back into the swing of things with grammar. Anki is up to date. I've managed to watch a fair bit of Japanese drama (about 6 hours worth) and I've gone back to watching a bit of 凪のあすから to see if the subs2srs deck is helping (which it seems to be). 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 171 of 256 05 May 2014 at 11:29pm \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-05-04 40h18m Audio: 15:26 Vocab: 3:16 Reading: 8:30 Grammar: 5:54 Video: 6:26 S:C Books: book: 126 pages, film: 6h37m So the SC has started and I'm participating. My previous rate of drama/anime watching should be more than enough to complete the 100 films (150 hours) in 20 months. Reading will be much more of a challenge so this week I went through my graded readers. That means next week I'll have to tackle something tougher. Overall I read 9 NHK News articles, but all before the SC began. I've managed to get back into the 新完全マスタ groove and I'm working through the grammar again. Each time through the book I notice a an additional point or two, which is good. I've kept Anki and RTK up to date throughout this week. I had Friday off this week, so I managed to get over 7 hours of Japanese done. Normal service will be resumed next week :-) 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 172 of 256 16 May 2014 at 1:50am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-05-11 31h22m Audio: 13:48 Vocab: 7:35 Reading: 2:35 Grammar: 1:33 Video: 5:51 S:C Books: 4 pages, film: 11h59m Although I did watch a fair bit of drama this week, reading did indeed prove tougher: in fact I didn't pick up a book at all and the page count was entirely down to 7 NHK News articles I read in one day. I did spend some time going through the mock test papers, looking for vocabulary to mine, but I've yet to activate that in Anki. Interestingly, only a few of the "new" grammar points that I've been studying cropped up (わけ and はず). 1 person has voted this message useful
kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5187 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese	Message 173 of 256 16 May 2014 at 2:24am \| IP Logged
	I think those are both really good ones. They were taught in my Japanese 202 course and fit well in conversation. And はず just gets used in anime all the time. 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 174 of 256 02 June 2014 at 11:51pm \| IP Logged
	Did I really not update for three weeks? Wow! W/E 2014-05-18 34h24m Audio: 13:58 Vocab: 2:00 Reading: 13:45 Grammar: 1:25 Video: 3:16 SC: Books: 66 pages, film: 10h15m W/E 2014-05-25 35h55m Audio: 10:49 Vocab: 2:41 Reading: 9:37 Grammar: 3:05 Video: 9:43 SC: Books: 48 pages, film: 15h07m W/E 2014-06-01 30h15m Audio: 7:00 Vocab: 1:47 Reading: 5:28 Grammar: 7:04 Video: 8:56 SC: Books: 70 pages, film: 11h56m So what have I managed to fit in in those 3 weeks? I've finished the Penguin Parallel Text (Short Stories) and also re-read A Homestay In Japan. I read the Penguin extensively, using the accompanying translation to make sense of the Japanese. AHIJ I've already read a few times before, so this time I was able to concentrate on the Japanese and not need to look anything up (although I did sometimes use the running gloss). A little bit of my reading has been on NHK News but only a handful of pages worth here and there. I've managed to pick up where I'd left off in the grammar book and I expect to finish it in the next few days. At that point I'll go through 日本語総まとめ N3 文法 one more time to see what still hasn't stuck. I've been watching quite a lot of drama, some with subs, some without and some without and then the same episode with. I feel like I'm beginning to hear words through the fog, so hopefully things are getting better. I've been going through the mock tests with my tutor and things are looking OK for the JLPT. By "OK" I mean that the mocks weren't the complete disaster that I thought they were, but they weren't anything to write home about either. Hopefully I've improved a bit in the last month. I've not activated any new vocabulary or kanji in Anki: instead I've concentrated on keeping the current vocabulary fresh. Finally I've (literally) just received my JLPT test voucher from SOAS, so it looks like I will be sitting the N3 in July! 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 175 of 256 11 June 2014 at 1:01am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-06-08 32h13m Audio: 12:27 Vocab: 1:49 Reading: 7:44 Grammar: 2:57 Video: 7:16 SC: Books: 48 pages, film: 13h29m I've managed to do a decent amount of reading this week. I finished "Reading Japanese with a Smile", which actually is only about 15 pages of Japanese, the rest being English or gloss. On top of that I've managed to read quite a bit of NHK News. My tutor is away for three weeks, so she's left me the mock test book, which means I should try to fit in two complete N3 mock tests over the next week or two. I'm sure I've finished 新完全マスター N3 文法, but my spreadsheet says I've only reached the end of Part 2. I'll have to check more carefully and then get around to some 日本語総まとめ N3 文法. I guess the next few weeks will mostly be spent trying to consolidate those things that I need to know for the JLPT N3 early next month. World Cup permitting, of course! 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 176 of 256 23 June 2014 at 11:06am \| IP Logged
	W/E 2014-06-15 30h27m Audio: 16:12 Vocab: 3:59 Reading: 6:49 Grammar: 1:10 Video: 1:30 W/E 2014-06-22 33h39m Audio: 11:47 Vocab: 9:15 Reading: 6:32 Grammar: 3:39 Video 2:26 SC: Books: 32 pages, film: 8h19m Over the last two weeks my focus has shifted slightly away from watching drama and back towards reading and a little grammar. I've also been working through a few mock exams. I had printed off a few (old) JLPT 2 past papers, as I didn't have any N3 mock tests to work through, but now that my tutor has supplied a few mock test books for me to look at, I've got more than enough of the real thing to work through. I've also worked through an N3 vocabulary book, picking out the terms that I didn't recognise, so I'll be working through those in Anki over the next two weeks. I'll be careful not to overload though, as there's plenty of other stuff I want to work through for preparation too. 1 person has voted this message useful