(2016-06-02, 12:48 pm)yogert909 Wrote: I just got off a job that had me working crazy long hours leaving very little time for anki reps. So I'm currently in anki catchup purgatory with close to 2k reviews to work through and more reviews coming due every day..I probably won't be able to add any new cards for about a month while I catch up, setting back my already set back lesson plan. To top it all off, after finishing rtk my mature kanji cards were stagnating without any increase for a month or two due to a high mature fail rate.
Fortunately, the project I'm on now seems like it will be cakewalk for the next month. So I'll have some time to power through the reviews and spend some extra time with my kanji deck.
I could have sworn you guys - that is, yogert909 and RawPk - were both N2+ or at leasts shooting for N2!
I guess I'm the one who's crazy to attempt to go over N2+ content in my first year of study (started last year on Sep 15). So far, I've finished RTK, Genki 1-2, Erin's Challenge, and read all entries in DoBJG (srsing what's worthwile). I've also started my own vocabulary deck , which has pretty much 1k words at this point.
My goals right now are:
* Finish Core 6k by the end of the month. Not taking words in my own deck, easy katakana words that are a given, and words that I added in advance, there should be about 1k words left, perhaps 1100 or so. Taking a quick break to finish Tobira - after that, I should resume adding 50-60 words a day to get it out of the way quickly.
* Finish Tobira asap. Been using it just for reading/listening at this point (95% grammar/vocab in Anki already). Pretty much just 4 chapters left, which I could finish in 4 days.
* Go over whatever is in the Dictionary of Intermediate/Advanced Japanese Grammar that I haven't seen yet. Assuming I've seen up to 100 of these grammar items in Tobira and in the wild, I should be able to finish this in 30-40 days by going over 10 items a day.
I want to read Planetarium before the anime adaptation comes out (next month I believe) though, since I already have it on Steam. Good thing it's one of those super short visual novels that take no more than 10 hours to finish - i.e. in English, so I still wonder how long it'll take in Japanese. I'd rather read other visual novels at this point, but this should be a good start since the length is manageable. That being said, I can already see myself adding a gazillion words to my vocabulary deck. I guess I'll just use one of those tools to quickly look up the meaning of any new words, then load up a save file afterwards in order to add those words without having to stop all the time while I'm reading.
On a side note, how did you manage to pile up so many reviews? I know input is super important, but if there's one thing I make sure to do daily with top priority, it's to review my flashcards. The system becomes so messy if you skip days that I'd probably give up on it if that happened and start focusing on maximum amounts of input to compensate for it. Not sure if "compensante" is the right word though, since that might actually be a better approach anyway. Kinda hard to know imho.
Edited: 2016-06-02, 2:21 pm