Nice one. Did that 8 hours include looking up stuff and adding to anki, or just reading straight and skipping stuff you don't know or fully understand?

Nice one. I read Harry Potter over the course of a week or two, reading along with the audiobook at a pace of a chapter every evening. It was really enjoyable! I plan to go back at a later point and mine it for stuff, and then go back a few months after that and read through the whole thing by myself.

As for my accomplishment- I've kicked my studies up a notch due to being on holidays and have been doing 20 kanji/day (~60 sentences) from KO2001 (despite numerous interferences from real life!) so that I can finish the first book in around 2 weeks from now.

I went an entire hour (I can round up 31 minutes to an hour, right?) without eating icecream.

...wait, this topic is for language accomplishments huh? Darnit

I finished both Ulysses and War and Peace this week, and I still have 20/20 eyesight afterwards, if that counts for anything.

The Oddysey took me forever since I wasn't proficient enough at English, but I read the Aeneid a few years later and was able to breeze through it. Yay for time

I am not really a fan of the translations of works we have in Japan. Very different experience than reading it in English/original source language.

Pssh, the original is like 50% French

Hmm, maybe we should stop de-railing the thread offtopic. *walks away stealthily*

lol oops... maybe i will have a crack at it then once i finish in the miso soup:P which is easily half a days read but i am monumentally lazy *also walks away stealthily* srry Nukemarine ^^

Just to play around, I downloaded JLPT1 from 2000 and checked the first 2-3 questions. I was blown away with how well I did, I actually think I could pass it if I took it right now. Of course, JLPT has gotten harder, so I would probably not pass this years JLPT1 right now, but since I have almost 6 more months to go, I think I have very good chances.

I don't know if I've done it yet, but I think I hit 2,000 sentences. I'm not sure though, I only let myself check how many sentences I have on Fridays.

I honestly can't think of any milestones, but i see that as a good thing.  This method we here implement lends itself to steady progress, not bursts.

If i try to think of how much Japanese i know / understand i always end up depressing myself..
私は
これは

"is that all i know ! oh my god."  *emo-fit... runs straight for the chocolate biscuits"  but you do actually know more than you realise.
Just watching a tv show, while flipping through a book when you hear someone say something.. and you look up at the screen not because it was a strange noise or anything, but because you understood it perfectly and you look to find out what exactly caused the character to utter such a thing.

Thats the stage i'm at, where im starting to hear stuff all the time and understand it  (mostly basic conversational stuff.. nothing fancy)  but it makes you feel good.

also.. does continually hitting 92% correct on anki count as a milestone?   anki makes me feel goooood     well.. sometimes

I dunno if it's a milestone or not, but I am on my second round of RTK finished it several months ago, and then life creeped up on me ^^

I have everything back to normal now, including my study schedule so i started rtk again from scratch, it won't take me long to get them all back to where they were, plus i'd rather do a once over of the book anyways, may as well do that while also getting my SRS back on track at a decent but manageable pace.

I hit the 1/3 mark of my second runthrough ( 680ish ) today in just over a week, not quite 100/day but close enough with how quickly I am able to blow through my daily reviews.

Nii87 wrote:

I started KO2001. Big enough milestone for me =p

ahhaha

I started Kanji in context woo hi5

Yeah 100 pages in 8 hours is definitely something to be proud of!

The only thing I can think of is recently when I flipped through all the literature books I have of 三島由紀夫 and 安部公房, I could actually go on for paragraphs understanding things (a few months before I would hit a wall within a paragraph).  This is probably because I've been reading more literature/essay parallel texts lately.

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