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5:40 AM - Stare at iKnow.jp, possibly actually start studying.
Random times - Read Japanese books or manga, play Japanese games
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no job/school?
my routine more or less follows this model:
100 new sentences in Anki no matter what.
listen to music while using Anki studying.
listen to japanese tv/anime while sentence adding.
speak japanese to my wife when i need food.
occasionally read grammar books if i come across something i don't understand.
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7:00 a.m. -- do my Anki reviews.
I leave for work at 8:30. I usually have enough time to do my Anki reviews, but depending on how much time I have, I may not add new cards until after I get home from work.
8:45~9:30 -- Read Japanese novel on the bus
5:30~6:15 -- Read Japanese novel on the bus (depending on whether I can get a seat!)
7:00 p.m. -- Add new cards in Anki if I have not done so already.
Often I will watch dramas or anime or listen to Japanese music, but not on anything like a set schedule. Also I have a lot of English reading to do for work, so there are days I will skip my Japanese reading time.
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I'm confused. Why would you be still working on kana when you're doing Kanji?
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I read things I like, when I have time, and add unknown vocab to my deck. Of course I also keep up with reviews. I have no real pattern or schedule and I prefer it that way because forcing yourself to follow a training regiment of sorts just gives it that feeling I used to get when I had to do homework for a class I did not care about.
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Right now my routine mostly consists of not forgetting the stuff I already know.
This is basically my anki decks for RTK, Kanji Odyssey and my Japanese class. If I have extra time I'll also try and do another 5 or 10 kanji in Kanji Odyssey(basically read, understand, enter into anki).
I want to do more but time lacking is right now.
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7AM - 150/200 anki reviews
In some classes were are allowed to use the computer so I do more reviews on the boring classes.
When I get home 5, 6PM I usually leave my computer playing Ayu ready un til I go to sleep.
I add new cards at night, around 15-20, lused to add new cards everyday, but lately I've been quite tired so I have been slacking off a bit.
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I don't have the time to excessively learn Japanese at the moment, so I stick to the following daily schedule:
Morning:
15 kanji reps (each consisting of 5 compounds)
10 cloze deletion reps (vocabulary and grammar)
10 "ordinary" sentence reps (just recognizing)
10 listening comprehension reps (10 phrases from Anki staple "Core10kV4" which I must understand and write down completely in kanji)
Evening:
Again 15 Kanji reps
I don't read Japanese newspaper articels or anything and it is only from time to time that I add new content to my Japanese anki staples. The daily repetitions are over before I even know it, and although it is obviously not much, it allows me to -more or less- retain my current knowledge (at least, I hope so) and to make some (very slow, but consistent) progress.
In two or three years after finishing university I plan a year of hardcore Japanese learning. Until then I should know all the jôyô kanji including important compounds (now, I know about 1700) and enough vocabulary as a base to reach fluency within a year (or two).
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@Zgarbas
That's what AJATT recommends - kanji w/Heisig first, then kana. No, it doesn't make sense to me either...
Here is what I do:
Weekdays:
after gettin up (which can be ~5:30~7:00) - 8:30: do reviews, then do exercises from my textbook
lunch time break: do some reading from DoxJG, shadowing
20:00 - 22:00+: whatever I fancy doing in Japanese, also preparing new items/cards (but not adding them yet, as I'm usually to tired to handle extra repetitions)
Weekends:
no specific times - massive adding of items/cards (but only to the extend that would not harm my burden (~100 items/day is what I can handle)). Also, do as much as can afford before I get tired, occupied w/household tasks, etc.
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Learn the kana first. It'll only take a few days at most. Then you can at least read manga that has furigana while you are doing your Heisig kanji.
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I think the idea is that you finish the kanji in a few months, and immerse yourself preparing your ears with the sound of the language...
you're not really starting to learn japanese while this is going on... not studying vocab or grammar or even trying to read... you're just setting the foundation for fluent ability later.
if you want to try reading first before knowing all jouyou kanji then do kana first and knock yourself out, but that's not the ajatt method. there are other ways but I did it his way and (if you can finish heisig in 2-3 months) I agree his way is best.
Think of it as being kind of like a lifehack... an efficiency thing to get you to fluency fastest. It's not the fastest way to be able to do a little of this or that, though... for sure.
