How do you go about studying for very, very long periods? (JPLT memories anyone?)

I'm restarting my time boxing project (I left time boxing for a long time, but I'm starting to see that some sort of organization method is needed.)

Also, how long was your longest study session?

Me, about 14 hours during RTK. <-- very bad idea.

When I have no other tests I do it as often as possible. From like 2PM to 11PM, with a lot of breaks of course (to listen to japanese music, to watch dorama, to eat, to take a walk, to dinner). It's not hard at all, at least for me. I really enjoy studying japanese.

I want to take 2kyuu this year, I'm going through soumatome 2kyuu bunpou and I'm still adding vocab from the 3kyuu, so I have a lot to study. I will start in 2 weeks to study tobira in a fast pace so that I can start "progressing from intermediate to advanced japanese). In a fast pace because I have finished AIAIJ (but in the first week I will go through the vocab and texts and listening comprehension, I only focused on grammar).

This study time includes anki (though most of anki hours are in the morning, around 1 hour), textbooks and listening to tv shows/dorama/music/podcasts (tokyo local, that I really, really enjoy) at the same time.

My problem with studying japanese is that when I have other tests I cannot focus because I'm so addicted to this japanese learning thing that I only want to study japanese.

I'm going to have a 5 week break from college and in those weeks I intend on finishing Tobira, at the very least. I also intend on adding the rest of the 3kyuu vocab and start adding 2kyuu. I will also start adding not 20 (like now) but 3 new cards a day or more, but this will increase my anki review time a lot so I don't know.

Long study hours are waiting for me

My motivation comes from my progress, I feel that my japanese is really improving thanks to these long study hours, learning grammar is getting easier and faster, I also really enjoy listening to japanese pop, watching japanese tv shows and doramas. I also have an awesome teacher.
Also, latety, the fact of having seen an add asking for someone who could speak japanese for a job, where I live (small town) has been motivating me. They offered 3250€ o.o (here in portugal an average salary is 700€, a good salary is 1000€ so...).

How to study for massive hours?
imo, you ought not to get bored. Whenever I get bored with studying from textbooks I just take a break or start singing songs while memorizing the lyrics or watch some tv show :p

When I have free time, I study the whole day and it's okay. As there's a lot of stuff in japanese...like mixi, lang-8, dramas, then I don't get so exhausted. But I always try to do anki as much as I can. I feel that it's the real studying or something.

And then it happens that I drink a lot of tea and do the reps really fast. If I do this am able to do something like learn 250 new words a day. And about 700 reps.

I think it's easy to study japanese for hours if you watch movies or speak to friends...but I really have to push myself to do anki reps.

Just the other day I was thinking about timeboxing and wondering if people still do it now that the "hype" has died down. When I say timeboxing Im referring to some of the elaborate setups some people had, 10>2 or something like that is one that comes to mind. I tried some of these myself, even bought some tea timers but found I just reverted back to the old study till you get bored method.

Just curious.

I use Anki. I pick 20 questions for the session length (in study options) rather than time based. I keep going for another 20 questions, or stop as I feel like it.

dusmar84 Wrote:Just the other day I was thinking about timeboxing and wondering if people still do it now that the "hype" has died down. When I say timeboxing Im referring to some of the elaborate setups some people had, 10>2 or something like that is one that comes to mind. I tried some of these myself, even bought some tea timers but found I just reverted back to the old study till you get bored method.

Just curious.

I let you know in a few days

In the past I gave up because it does require to much elaborate BS, but I need to focus more and time boxing actually does do that for me.

I don't timebox, I just set aside a certain number of chapters in a novel or lessons in a textbook to do per day, and I do that for lots of novels and textbooks. As long as I switch around what I'm doing every half-hour or so, I don't get bored unless I'm dehydrated or tired or something. Sometimes I throw in random stuff like Mongolian too to keep it fresh but I make sure not to spend an overly high amount of time on that.

Also, I used to wake up around 3 A.M. and went to sleep around 9 P.M., which allowed me to fit in normal life obligations along with studying fairly well. I really need to start doing that again.