Thanks splatted and Tashippy. It will be technical translation provided they send me work I failed about 50 trials when I started out, so I was made up as we say in scouseland

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Finally had proper conversations in a business situation . Made a bunch of mistakes, but my employers were surprisingly understanding.

Also, interpreted Japanese for the first time. It didn't go to well when I was hit with random stuff like "lubricants for purification systems" (though ironically I'd come across purification systems before, I had a lapsus).

Also, my speech fluidity is coming on well, though I still stumble on conjugations sometimes. Bowing a gajillion times saying よろしくおねがいいたします and おつかれさまでした also came surprisingly natural.

Note to self: Having my first job interpreting technical terms should have come before having my first ever "have a business conversation" (and in between you and me, before one of my first 5 ever IRL conversations...)

Just finished my fifth deck of core 2000, so now I can with certainty say I "know" at least 1000 Japanese words.

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Today, when I realised that I haven't studied in 2 months and that the N1 is one week away, I didn't cry. Too much.

I finished adding new cards to Core 6k, so I started being harsh about passing cards again. I think my plan to start intensive reading after Thanksgiving may have been a little optimistic.

Finished reading my third Japanese book.

After a summer of little to no Japanese studies I'm finally back in the game. 1300 new words left on Core6k should be easy to take care of.

Today I started a new character in FFXIV on a JP server using the JP client. It's surprisingly fun, but obviously painful because I haven't dived in to native materials extensively until now. I understand maybe 50-70% of what is being said, so it's good enough. It reminds me of playing games back when I was 8 years old trying to decipher the English used. "I understand what "dog" means but what is a "Naughty Dog"? Good times.

I think I want to gather the new words I encounter to Anki and just play in small chunks (say, every play session should net me 10-20 new words to add to Anki). That way I feel like I am making progress not just in-game but in my language studies, too.

Finished working through Tae Kim's guide yesterday, and finished Core 2k today.

It was a month ago now, but I didn't manage to break 10k words for my first year of Japanese, and I'm on track to do another 10k this year.

I'm going to hit my two year mark on Jan. 29. That was the first day I started to use the flash card system on this site to study kanji. Well I just wanted to summarize what I've done at thus mark:
- Finished RTK 1
- Just passed the 15,000 word mark (Core 10k (really only abt 9,500) + 5,000+ words I encountered in novels).
- Some textbooks I went through: Genki I and II, Tobira, Kanzen Master N2 and N1, Japanese the Manga Way
- Read many light novels - abt. 16 or so.
- I am poor in listening ability I just finished going through a one hour drama in sub2srs. I'm am adding a second hour now. I have to get up to speed here. I really neglected listening and focused on reading.

Anyway, I hope to bump up the word count over the next year and spend more time on my listening ability. I have to thank this site for all the help!

I'm at 2100 words in Core after restarting in December. Continuing at a pace of 50 a day, I'll be done in April. Reviews are really starting to pile up (282 tomorrow!) as well as with my DoBJG deck, but I can handle it. My Japanese is improving really quickly, and I've never been so motivated. Hopefully I can keep this up and get N2 in December. Wish me luck

Also congrats to potbellypig, hopefully I'll be able to read novels soon enough too!

Read a complete manga volume yesterday, bringing my total to 3.

Hirakana Wrote:I'm at 2100 words in Core after restarting in December. Continuing at a pace of 50 a day, I'll be done in April. Reviews are really starting to pile up (282 tomorrow!) as well as with my DoBJG deck, but I can handle it. My Japanese is improving really quickly, and I've never been so motivated. Hopefully I can keep this up and get N2 in December. Wish me luck

Also congrats to potbellypig, hopefully I'll be able to read novels soon enough too!

Thanks for the congrats. I've found in Anki that after a period of time (several months) the number of reviews per day go up to 11-12x the number of cards you add a day. I usually have about a 10% miss rate overall. If your's is better than it will be somewhat less. So 50 new cards a day may add up after a while. I like to do 33 new words a day and have about 350 reviews a day.

I just repped a deck to full maturity. Total time spent so far: 31 seconds per card.

One day one unit, but the pace of processing is suspend because of sth.

All and all, happy for the holidays from which I can free up time to learn. The most important point..

Just finished Core 2000
Now for core 6000.

EDIT:
Wow. Coincidently, clearing all 2000 cards of my Core 2000 deck actually brought me to no less than my 24.999th review in that particular deck.

Just hit the halfway point in core 6k

Finished reading こころ in November. Became a bit lazy and didn't do much reading but then got round to finishing 霧島部活やめるってよ. I am now reading academic books in Japanese for my dissertation, currently about 60 pages into my first!

Just found out I passed the Kanji Kentei level 6. Hooray for fifth grader literacy!

I started studiying Japanese in November. I found a N5 past paper and tried answering it. I actually managed to finish it and checked it. I got over 60% right. I don't really know how the scoring works, so I have no idea how much each question is worth, so I calculated the percentages. And felt the need to brag

Hello world, I'm here to say that something fantastic is happening in my life right now, it all started when 4 days ago I saw a post in this forum called "How to do reps fast", I become inspired and tried the approach out in the next day, learned 300 words in that day, and 430 words yesterday.

But I wanted to go to the limit, just to see how far I could go, so today I learned 1000 words! I'm feeling on the top of the world right now, like the Bruce Lee of the SRS.

I plan to learn 430 words a day in order to pass the 20000 words mark in a month, my plan is to learn them superficially and then focus on extensive reading and listening in the next months, I never saw someone who was stupid enough to try such I thing, so I am probably the first one, but it's seems possible!

Learning all that vocab in a month and then just relax I focus on listening, reading and using it makes so much sense, cause due to my own personal experience I realized that was easy to hear and make your vocab deeper once you actually know the stuff. 1000 words was a fun challenge, that I probably never will be crazy enough to repeat, but 430 is a breeze, so I don't see anything that prevents me to reach my goal.

P.S: I was at about 7000 words when I started this project
I'm using core 6000

20,000 words in one month?

I'm skeptical.

daily reviews average around 10-15x your add rate.
include lots of fails because your cards aren't mature yet, and we could be talking 10,000 reviews a day.
I hope you ate your wheaties.

Livonor, I don't know how many hours your day has, but for me I have only 24h a day. And over 16 hours I have to sleep, go to school and eat. So only 8 hours are left
I don't know if I can belive you but learning 1.000 new words in a day impossible. And if it would be possible you would feel like an half dead man.
Little math 1.000 words x 2 minutes per word (because you're fast).. 33 hours and after 1 hour of learning the learning speed drastically reduces without taking a good amount of a break.
Also 430 words a day is impossible. It would be like 14 hours of learning with breaks etc. it would be nearly doubled. Plus the 3-5 hours of review.

Good luck human whose day has over 24 hours.