Hi everybody!
At the end of february I finished RTK! Finally! Then I've studied UBJG book until now, but the fact is... it doesn't work! I found it difficult and BORING! I need something which I can use to understand grammar first, I presume, because I feel a bit lost! So, now I'm doing the basic grammar of Tae Kim and I think it's great!!! A little bit of light!
My question is: and then? I'm so tempted to come back to Minna or Genki! But I would like to resist and give Core deck a chance. I just have to download it from the Anki site? How can I use the spreadsheet? Is there a list available? Because I couldn't find it on the forum! Too many questions? Sorry! And sorry for my english (I'm doing a deck for that, too:-)!

Optimized Core 2k/6k is the one to get from Anki's shared page. You don't need a spreadsheet. Read the Nukemarine thread for advice on how to go through it.

Honestly, you need the information Genki or Minna has anyway whether you do Tae Kim/Core or Genki.. it's just a matter of preference as to how. When I started I was looking for fastest. Looking back, and many people will say this, I should have just stuck with whatever I did first, the only thing that slowed me down in the beginning was changing study methods too frequently.. not the method.

If you like Genki or Minna, I say do that first.. you really need a solid ability to read all basic grammar before vocab is useful anyway.
It's just my opinion, but I think it's was better to have great grammar and only OK vocab. Because there is a lot less of it, do it first and everything becomes easier, just like RTK, imho.

I personally went through UBJG alongside Genki 1+2, at which point Core became MUCH more useful to me.
I used a pre-made deck for UBJG and entered in sentences from Genki as I went.
I also read through all of Tae Kim once or twice, but I didn't study it systematically.

seaweedhead Wrote:I should have just stuck with whatever I did first, the only thing that slowed me down in the beginning was changing study methods too frequently.. not the method.

That was exactly my mistake !

Thank you very much for your advice. It was helpful!