depends on what you mean by routine....
if you mean something that bore you to death  yes you have to get away from that....
because learning japanese is a endurance trial , you can t bear something that you find dull for several years.... ajatt method really stresses the importance of pleasure. Because you re supposed to do it 24h a day  and you can t do it out of will 24 a day... there must be pleasure too.
if you mean any  procedure  I ll go against that . Creating routine is one of the key part in any training process . as you know by heart the frame, as you have reflexes  you can focus on the content . It took me a while to find the best way to study rtk, same goes for ajatt method (and i m still not totally satisfied) but once I found an appealing procedure I improved at speed light. As much as you can you should try to stick to the same method as long as possible.

whatever  i think kathz said , and i totally agree with him on this point , something like when you feel good with something then it a good method .I could feel in my guts when something was wrong my method and when it was right... Concerning ajatt I think my current method is the 4th i employ and at last i "feel" it s working. So you just have the feeling it work fines for you then you re right. Obviously there are 100 percent flawed approach but there are also a lot which are equally good. And everyone of us has different assets . It s the key error of the traditionnal studies that they aren t able to understand how the learning process is different in each one of us that s why there are so many dropouts.

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