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what i do is that timebox. Finish let's say all reviews within 30mins for all decks. And the next 30mins add 50-100 cards using a dictionary and just do ALOT of immersion in japanese. So you can finish everything within 1 hour and the rest of the day to do what you want. For me personally after that 1 hour, i'm writing random japanese down on paper (I'm going to order that book for formal writing+email, just to get a feel for writing)
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Thanks chamcham, you've always been on the ball with cool resources.
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@chocajin.
No nooo. I don't study 10 hours a day. I'd go crazy. I just do alot of immersion, so that adds up to 10 hours. The srsing i only do for 1-2 hours max daily. Rest is immersion, songs,games,sites,etc.
Yea i don't have a full-time job, as i'm still a student. So i do have more time. But only somedays, not all. Those are only days where i have nothing to do, such as long weekends and such.
Seeing how you live in japan. You get more than enough immersion i presume? So that leaves only srsing. You said you usual have 1.5 hours of free-time right? Try to do everything within that 1 hour if possible. But i can understand if it;s difficult. You work full-time and have other things to do.
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Ok as of today. I'm only making 3-4 decks maximum. So that way i can focus more on these 4 decks then having to worry about 8-9, which is just time-consuming.
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Finished all the reviews in my RTK deck. Actually it was not that bad, as I can breeze through it quite easily and fast. The KiC deck is a pain in the ass, though.
Mainly because there are quite a lot of sentencs that I can't understand fully (yet?). I even had to ask in the "What's this phrase/word?" thread!! Maybe KiC is too difficult for me? I do understand all the single words and the readings come to me quite easily as I've studied on-yomi before, but sometimes I have to read a sentence a few times and still don't understand the meaning. This costs a lot of time.
Other than that I started with a new Grammar deck with the Kanzen Master 2kyuu sentences. This time I'll only read the example sentences with the grammar point while trying to figure out the meaning of the grammar point / the sentences and recall why it is or can be used in the sentence. Maybe that's better.
My previous grammar deck included blanks that I had to fill in and a "Notes" fact that was WAY TOO FULL with information about a grammar point that I stopped reading it after some time.
I wanna get ready for the 2kyuu in July. I was able to pass a mock test half a year ago, while I had to guess ALL of the grammar points and didn't have enough time for the reading section, the kanji/vocab section and the listening were quite easy for me.
Which probably means that I should concentrate on reading speed and grammar for now. Hm.
I wanna finish KiC because I still lack kun-yomi readings of the most common 2000 Kanji and KO2001 couldn't help me to get enough of that. If you have any better idea, please let me know about it. Once I'll have finished KiC, I want to only add sentences from native resources (have already been doing that from time to time when reading novels anyway) AND maybe think about also creating a vocab deck.
As for my daily routine. I have a full-time job (some of you might remember my thread from 2 years ago where I asked about "how to secretly study at work" ...), so usually I can't afford more than 1-1,5hrs of studying (SRS-ing).
After work I usually watch 1 episode of a jdrama (depending on its difficulty with Japanese or English subs) and in bed I read for about 30min. (doujinshi, magazines, manga or novels). As I live in Japan I'm quite immersed and outside of work I only use Japanese and lately even at work my use of Japanese has increased. While my coworkers used to speak only English with me in the beginning, we usually only speak Japanese now (when going out etc. as well).
