My humble 2016 JLPT N3 thread

There certainly are ups and downs in motivation. Post JLPT ruts seem par for the course. I'm just happy that I've maintained my Anki reviews daily since taking N3 in December. I'm reading a few pages in my novels a couple of days a week, but haven't opened any textbooks since the exam. So ariari, you shouldn't feel bad at all.

My biggest problem is I'm not adding new cards in Anki. I'm only doing RTK Kanji with Japanese keyword, no vocab, or grammar at all. Even then, I'm not meeting my goal of 3 new cards a day.  Yes, I'm going slow.  To prove to myself that I'm not in a post JLPT rut, I went to a local library last weekend and reviewed all of the missed questions from the N3 practice test I took the day before the real exam last month. Felt good to be doing something more than the minimal Anki review. Let's all keep it up!

I read over on the N2-N1 thread that JLPT results are coming out next week, Jan. 26th. Even if you don't pass, it should be a motivator.

Here are my Anki stats today. I'm only Anki-ing an RTK deck. I've suspended most Kanji above N3, and am doing all of these with Japanese keyword:

Mature: 445
Young+Learn: 66
Unseen: 251
Suspended+Buried: 1438

I had around 390 mature kanji cards at the time of N3 last month. 251 more to go in my N3-N4-N5 (RTK-hyper-lite?) set. I'll do those with Japanese keyword, and will then probably unsuspend those other 1438, switch to English keyword and finish as fast as I can. Simultaneously, I'll start doing my vocab deck (Nayr Core5000) and the Kanzen Master N3 Kanji book.