nest0r Wrote:Can't really call it a "milestone", per se, more like a sudden realization of how my skills have improved, without even noticing it until now.

You got to love when that happens. "Wait, I can do that now?!"

Got to the end of an article from Famitsu (http://www.famitsu.com/game/news/1226784_1124.html -about the 2009 Pokemon World Championship lol. I only read it because of the hilarious picture showing the winners to be two tiny kids and a big fat American, I swear.) before I realised I hadn't needed to look anything up.

Hahaha, that picture is so awesome! How did you find that?

It just turned up in one of my google reader feeds. Might have been from kotaku, or the famitsu feed.

1700 cards in my sentence deck.
Making progress. Slowly but surely.

Now that I have my thesis finally done (except for the foreword and conclution) and facing tons of free time for (practically) the first time in years, I can finally concentrate on more important things like studying Japanese for real.

Reached Kanji 1000 yesterday And the Half-way milestone today

I finished reading a short story "ウサギと亀". Not much, but it's the first real Japanese ever read. Now, I gotta work on a manga or something. lol

KO2001 is going way faster!
2 weeks ago I spent 4-5 hours on 25 sentences. Today I used 2 hours and 15 minutes on 25 sentences! Woho!

I just realized I'm now beyond the point of no return. I don't think I could stop even if I wanted to.

Barring some extraordinary circumstances, I'll continue to learn and suck a little bit less every day. I no longer have a little voice inside telling me that my efforts are in vain and that I'll never really know Japanese.

The road is still long, off course, but I'm now confident I'll get there eventually.

Took me ~9 months (after excluding mult-month breaks where I fell into another dimension that operates according to different temporal constraints), but in four days I'll finally be finished with my foundational phase of studying Japanese (not counting RTKana/RTKanji pre-June '08). Feels nice.

nest0r Wrote:...my foundational phase ...

Congratulations. May I ask what that consisted of? KO2001, Core 2000, UBJG?

wildweathel Wrote:

nest0r Wrote:...my foundational phase ...

Congratulations. May I ask what that consisted of? KO2001, Core 2000, UBJG?

Classified, sorry. When I've finished Phase 2 I will release that information. That will give me time to polish the revised history of my Japanese self-study.

Ｉ　ｊｕｓｔ　ｇｏｔ　ｔｈｉｒｄ　ｉｎ　ａ　ｊａｐａｎｅｓｅ　speech competition, I did my speech on "the lion king" (thanks nuriko)

I'm not sure it's a milestone (certainly not one I had planned on) but I have been doing translation work!

It's kind of interesting and a good test for me. The subject is a little bit.... "naughty".

For those who are offended by sexual stuff, read no further.

性的サービスの派遣型。男性客が宿泊するホテルなどへ出張（深夜２４時以降も営業が出来る）してくれるので、恋人気分でセクシーな夜が愉しめる。女性の手、口、胸、股間で射精する。部屋のタイプがシングルなどの場合、出張できないホテルもある。

It was really amusing to me to be translating this stuff, for some reason.

I just hit 500!

Last night I decided to set up a learning plan in Microsoft Project, and the first milestone was to hit 500 (because I was about 20 away from it at the time).

Now that I'm here it seems awesome to be nearly a quarter of the way done! Sweetness.

SammyB Wrote:

hknamida Wrote:I have 600 unseen cards left in my Smart.fm Core 2000+6000 Anki deck.

What the heck?! That's huge... so you've hit up like 5400 cards already? I'm guessing you deleted cards with nothing new to you along the way but man...
How has it impacted your Japanese? Are you doing production or recognition?
Respect.

Nope, haven't deleted any cards. Most of them did offer something new, and the rest won't show up again for another 2 years, anyway.

I've been doing recognition (question: 漢字, answer: かな + audio). It has done wonders for my reading comprehension and my ability to guess the (音読み) reading of unfamiliar words, making it easier to find them in my 電子辞典 without using its somewhat unreliable handwriting recognition feature. I've also gotten better at reading long sentences out loud.

As of today, I have less than 500 unseen cards left in my deck, but I have recently cut down on my number of new cards per day from 50 to 10, to solve the problem of overwhelming reviews. After I finish what's left of Core 6000, I will go back to picking sentences from material that actually interests me.

EDIT: Another positive effect of the Core *000 lists is that they've given me plenty of words for my ongoing project of getting rid of the English in my Heisig deck.

I can finally read the names of all the prefectures...does that count? I can almost place them all too, but I still get stumped on two or three.

I went from getting 10 or less right on that prefecture matching game to getting at least 20 every time.

Damn you and bless you for posting that prefecture matching link atylmo.

Heh, you're welcome...I think. I've been addicted to that game ever since I found out about it. It's done me a lot of good.

Halfway through KM1kyuu grammar! Should hopefully be done by Friday...

Also, as a sidenote I recently discovered that ひらがな can, somewhat counterintuitively (in my opinion), be written in kanji: 平仮名. Katakana too: 片仮名 although that surprises me less for some reason.

blackmacros Wrote:Also, as a sidenote I recently discovered that ひらがな can, somewhat counterintuitively (in my opinion), be written in kanji: 平仮名. Katakana too: 片仮名 although that surprises me less for some reason.

Hey, it's weird, but I learned about the kanji for カタカナ and ひらがな just like an hour before reading your post.

Donated to anki devels and khatz
http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...8#pid68068
(its an achievement because paypal finally unfroze my account!)

I've just finished KM1kyuu! Yay! Took me a week (although I was expecting to finish yesterday, life got in the way).

Now on to adding another 6000 words in time for JLPT.

200 kanji! It's not much, but I actually feel like I'm getting somewhere again now.

blackmacros Wrote:I've just finished KM1kyuu! Yay! Took me a week (although I was expecting to finish yesterday, life got in the way).

Now on to adding another 6000 words in time for JLPT.

Well done Has it made much impact on your understanding? I'm about to tackle KM2 in a couple of weeks.