I really need advice. My site is as most of you know http://www.imabi.net. After next week is over, I will be largely free to work heavily on it as my winter break starts. Here are some of the projects I have going on now.
1. Links project: Due to a relatively recent change up in the curriculum, 20% of the links of the site are still potentially faulty.
2. Exercises project: Adding exercises ranging from particle fill-in-the-blanks, translation, concept questions, etc.
3. New lessons on Classical Japanese: This is in large part my compilation of research.
4. Adding dialogues: For lessons that are more vocab based, I want to integrate the teaching of these words with review for previous lessons.
5. Making the site more concise and less verbose.
6. Kanji curriculum: I'm trying to install a true Kanji curriculum, which will take a lot of effort. Lessons 4-79 have 15 characters assigned each. 20 are for lessons 80-130, and for 130~ it'll be 25. By the time the site reaches 300 lessons, it will have covered enough Kanji for someone to pass the Kanken 1. Over time, many things will conform to the lists provided up to that point in the lessons. Word banks that conclude the lessons will utilize only those characters. Example sentences will also begin to reflect these lists, and reading aids will be removed more frequently from words whose Kanji have been introduced for some time.
Worksheets will also be made for it as well as vocab lists with examples to suggest what words need to be focused on the most with the set of characters.
Some projects are much larger than others. I average around 1-3 hours of time for these things on weekdays, 3-6 on weekends. I expect at least 30min-1.5 hours more as each of my classes come to a close. By December 12, I will probably have about 5-7 hours a day. After December 17th, this will skyrocket to probably 15 hours a day as I'll just study more Japanese over the break. For the holidays, I also want time spent reading more Japanese. I average about 100 pages a week, but I really want to get to 100 a day. I also have to set aside time for tutorials, which are hard to pinpoint.
With all of this in mind, there are several things in question.
1. What other things should be given attention that I've missed?
2. During times when I don't have much free time, what kinds of things would bring the best results?
3. Which projects should be given the most time and energy?
I don't want to just make the decisions myself because I want to hear a wide variety of opinions. I learned the hard way here over a year ago about the major shortcomings of my site, but it has all been for the better.
これからもお互い頑張りましょう。 ：）
1. Links project: Due to a relatively recent change up in the curriculum, 20% of the links of the site are still potentially faulty.
2. Exercises project: Adding exercises ranging from particle fill-in-the-blanks, translation, concept questions, etc.
3. New lessons on Classical Japanese: This is in large part my compilation of research.
4. Adding dialogues: For lessons that are more vocab based, I want to integrate the teaching of these words with review for previous lessons.
5. Making the site more concise and less verbose.
6. Kanji curriculum: I'm trying to install a true Kanji curriculum, which will take a lot of effort. Lessons 4-79 have 15 characters assigned each. 20 are for lessons 80-130, and for 130~ it'll be 25. By the time the site reaches 300 lessons, it will have covered enough Kanji for someone to pass the Kanken 1. Over time, many things will conform to the lists provided up to that point in the lessons. Word banks that conclude the lessons will utilize only those characters. Example sentences will also begin to reflect these lists, and reading aids will be removed more frequently from words whose Kanji have been introduced for some time.
Worksheets will also be made for it as well as vocab lists with examples to suggest what words need to be focused on the most with the set of characters.
Some projects are much larger than others. I average around 1-3 hours of time for these things on weekdays, 3-6 on weekends. I expect at least 30min-1.5 hours more as each of my classes come to a close. By December 12, I will probably have about 5-7 hours a day. After December 17th, this will skyrocket to probably 15 hours a day as I'll just study more Japanese over the break. For the holidays, I also want time spent reading more Japanese. I average about 100 pages a week, but I really want to get to 100 a day. I also have to set aside time for tutorials, which are hard to pinpoint.
With all of this in mind, there are several things in question.
1. What other things should be given attention that I've missed?
2. During times when I don't have much free time, what kinds of things would bring the best results?
3. Which projects should be given the most time and energy?
I don't want to just make the decisions myself because I want to hear a wide variety of opinions. I learned the hard way here over a year ago about the major shortcomings of my site, but it has all been for the better.
これからもお互い頑張りましょう。 ：）
