I plan on traveling Spanish-speaking countries in about a year and though it would be neat to get fluent in Spanish as preparation, which I estimate to take a minimum of 6 to 8 months, but I really want to start as soon as possible to have some leeway.
I have been learning Japanese like a lunatic on steroids for almost 2,5 years now and have gained a more than acceptable comprehension level, but there is still heaps of stuff to learn. And since the remainder of goals for my Japanese skills are so ambitious that I can't possibly reach them within half a year (e.g. Kanken 1kyuu, mastering kobun and proper writing etc.), they will have to be postponed a few years to be challenged once I'm done with Spanish. I naturally don't want to forget all the rare words and kanji that I have hunted down so far to save me from having to learn them a second time, which is why I plan to keep reviewing my Anki decks. Or would you nuke them?
Right now I'm working on reducing my Anki load by doing tons of reading and listening while deleting common words and trying to add as little new cards as possible. However, out of the approx. 60 hours per week that I spend on languages (collage student banzai!) almost a third still goes into Anki.
This figure seems way to high at the moment to not massively impede my planned Spanish studies, but how many hours/week would be an acceptable level?
And Anki only helps to not forget words/kanji, especially rarer ones, but I guess that in order not to loose grasp on the language as a whole you need to spend considerable time on reading/listening as well. How do you think these two aspects should compare timewise?
And once having started learning the new language, would you review the old one a few minutes every day or in bigger blocks every xx days?
I have been learning Japanese like a lunatic on steroids for almost 2,5 years now and have gained a more than acceptable comprehension level, but there is still heaps of stuff to learn. And since the remainder of goals for my Japanese skills are so ambitious that I can't possibly reach them within half a year (e.g. Kanken 1kyuu, mastering kobun and proper writing etc.), they will have to be postponed a few years to be challenged once I'm done with Spanish. I naturally don't want to forget all the rare words and kanji that I have hunted down so far to save me from having to learn them a second time, which is why I plan to keep reviewing my Anki decks. Or would you nuke them?
Right now I'm working on reducing my Anki load by doing tons of reading and listening while deleting common words and trying to add as little new cards as possible. However, out of the approx. 60 hours per week that I spend on languages (collage student banzai!) almost a third still goes into Anki.
This figure seems way to high at the moment to not massively impede my planned Spanish studies, but how many hours/week would be an acceptable level?
And Anki only helps to not forget words/kanji, especially rarer ones, but I guess that in order not to loose grasp on the language as a whole you need to spend considerable time on reading/listening as well. How do you think these two aspects should compare timewise?
And once having started learning the new language, would you review the old one a few minutes every day or in bigger blocks every xx days?