Hi, I just finished RTK 1 today. My first week was fast paced (120/day, the week before I came to Japan). I wasn't able to go online for almost two weeks and that made a lag of about 1000 expired cards. Since then, I gradually decreased my review per day, down to 15.

I reached the last card today, but since I'm busy at work, my expired cards stacked for as many as 1200. Having said that, I'm still glad that I'm able to maintain the number of expired cards.

This forum kept me motivated. ^^

I'm currently working my way through the expired cards. 18hrs, Approximately 3 days. After that, I'll lean my Japanese study more on listening through audio books and passive reading (most of the sites I use are in Japanese) while working my way slowly through RTK 3.

I apologize for my bad English.

読んでくださって、ありがとうございます。

Your English is much better than mine...

Where do you get your audiobooks from? What authors?

I guess, everyone studying Japanese online is familiar with Japanesepod101. It's only my third month here in Japan, and I'm glad that I learned almost everything Japanese first at that podcast. I never used its other materials though. I also finished an audio book, covering only the most basic japanese (most audiobooks do) I don't know the author though.

Sorry, it was a misunderstanding.
I thought you meant NOVELS.