I know many here would wish they could say these words haha. So with summer coming up I will have at least 10hours of free time/day, usually I would just spend the time gaming/wasting time on other crap but now I'm really in the mood for japanese.
What I'm aiming for is being able to read easy novels/manga, watch jdrama/anime in around 2 months, at least somewhat decently without getting frustrated for not understanding a thing. I am able to watch shounens with around 20-50% comprehension. My vocabulary is probably around early N4, but I can only read a few kanji [~50 ;_;].
What I've done and what I know in japanese:
1) Know hiragana / katakana / ~50kanji
2) Probably around 800-1000 vocabulary
3) Know basic grammar from reading around half of Tae Kim
4) Have read all of the stories in http://life.ou.edu/stories/
5) Watching a few shounens like Groove Adventure Rave [usually understand ~50%], Ao No Exorcist [A bit harder, still understand ~30%]
6) Trying out graded reader [level 1 is super easy, will try level 2]
7) Core 10k sentences [~400 in, 40/day] [learning every single word in every sentence, unless it's something really hard or rare]
I absolutely hated RTK, it was insanely frustrating even at 10-20 kanji/day [stopped after 2 months and kinda abandoned japanese for a while], I would rather learn kanji purely from vocabulary with context so please no RTK ;_;
So what should I do with all that free time ? I don't care about speaking or writing, the only things that matter are reading and listening and I want to get there as fast as possible. Is what I'm doing right now enough ? I have yotsubato but when I read, the meaning usually goes over my head, I want to at least reach a stage where I'm able to casually read yotsubato without a dictionary. Any suggestions ? It can be anime, manga, textbooks, anki decks, novels, readers, jdrama, interesting methods etc. etc. anything that's related to reading/listening. I currently spend ~2.5 hours/day, would love to at least double it. Thanks !
What I'm aiming for is being able to read easy novels/manga, watch jdrama/anime in around 2 months, at least somewhat decently without getting frustrated for not understanding a thing. I am able to watch shounens with around 20-50% comprehension. My vocabulary is probably around early N4, but I can only read a few kanji [~50 ;_;].
What I've done and what I know in japanese:
1) Know hiragana / katakana / ~50kanji
2) Probably around 800-1000 vocabulary
3) Know basic grammar from reading around half of Tae Kim
4) Have read all of the stories in http://life.ou.edu/stories/
5) Watching a few shounens like Groove Adventure Rave [usually understand ~50%], Ao No Exorcist [A bit harder, still understand ~30%]
6) Trying out graded reader [level 1 is super easy, will try level 2]
7) Core 10k sentences [~400 in, 40/day] [learning every single word in every sentence, unless it's something really hard or rare]
I absolutely hated RTK, it was insanely frustrating even at 10-20 kanji/day [stopped after 2 months and kinda abandoned japanese for a while], I would rather learn kanji purely from vocabulary with context so please no RTK ;_;
So what should I do with all that free time ? I don't care about speaking or writing, the only things that matter are reading and listening and I want to get there as fast as possible. Is what I'm doing right now enough ? I have yotsubato but when I read, the meaning usually goes over my head, I want to at least reach a stage where I'm able to casually read yotsubato without a dictionary. Any suggestions ? It can be anime, manga, textbooks, anki decks, novels, readers, jdrama, interesting methods etc. etc. anything that's related to reading/listening. I currently spend ~2.5 hours/day, would love to at least double it. Thanks !
Edited: 2016-05-20, 6:00 am