I suppose you can call me weird also but, I've been sentence mining the whole dictionary so far. Been 17 days so far, I expect to finish the whole dictionary by Friday. Keep in mind, I've only been taking out the complicated sentences out, not the really simple ones. However, I do take the "easy" ones out of the grammar points explained that I don't understand completely.

Well what level did it leave me at so far...hmmm. Well I don't know how to compare it to the jlpt but I'd say it helped my reading skills immensely. I actually made a new penpal yesterday through a friend. I was very surprised I understood everything that she said except some dictionary look ups here and there. Um, my production was poor as usual, I got a lot of corrections, but apparently the grammar I used was ok. It's just the word choice as my active vocabulary really is bad. For example, instead of スーパー, I used 八百屋 because it was the first thing that came to mind.

However, all my friend did was watch variety shows and did DOBJG and DOIJG and passed N2 in about a year. He's using kanzen books right now for n1 I think, he never tried the advanced dictionary.

Edit: Oh also when I'm doing a cover to cover of this dictionary, I'm not going in a alphabetical order. Hmm for example, I'm looking up the grammar point たまらない. I look at an example sentence but has an unknown grammar point in it, let's say だけではなく. I skip the sentence and go to the unknown grammar point and learn that one. If I remember I'll put the sentence I missed into anki. Oh and for motivation I made a spreadsheet on how much pages I've completed in a day. AND, I circle the page number in the dictionary so I know I've already completed that page. *Doesnt mean you can't go back to that page of course!

Last edited by Xanpakuto (January 05, 4:34 pm)