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Week 52 of 52

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Branicek
Branicek
November 18, 2018, 6:56 AM
Week 45? I haven’t given up on Japanese, still listen to podcasts at times, even though not at the rate I would like to. I am busy with the CFA preparation and the pressure of the exam makes me a bit less focused and motivated on other stuff like language learning. Anyway, keep grinding, we’ll get there. Consistency, not perfection
Dominik13
Dominik13
September 21, 2018, 12:08 AM
Great systems and progress since you set off on Japanese journey. Respect. Stay tough. Life is a marathon.
Branicek
Branicek
September 18, 2018, 7:38 AM
Week 36: I haven't reported for the weeks 34-35 (33 I mistakenly named 32 again). weeks 34-35 I was mainly doing some translation work and studying for the CFA exam, haven't done much with Japanese, but I at least watched videos of the AJATTer Matt vs Japan (now MIA massive immersion approach :D) and I find his style quite in line with what I was doing myself with Chinese. The one thing I realized is I neglected the amount of listening I was getting and that's why it still lags a lot behind my reading ability. I want to avoid that with Japanese and want to immerse more even if I understand very little. With Chinese I relied on the fact I am in the country and my girlfriend spoke with me daily. But still I should have dedicated more time to passive as well as active listening.
So last week I started doing just that with Japanese, earphones in most of the day and just listening to news/interviews/podcasts on my iPhone, occassionally catching a word and looking it up in a dictionary.
Matt has a good point in following the i+1 approach where you just focus on the sentences with one new unknown word and mostly ignore the rest. That means dedicating just a few seconds to trying to understand something and moving on, letting the rest go. He said all the time trying to perfectly figure out meaning of each sentence you read or listen to is just wasted effort. With enough exposure even the i+10 sentence will soon become i+1, but there's no point in fussing over it now. You may understand all the words but still not get the sentence. Try for a few seconds, maybe look up a concept, but otherwise don't bother, it will come together later.
I also watched a few Japanese Ammo lessons again.
With a lot of passive, semi-passive and active listening I believe I will make progress fast. Just need to find the time.
Also now is the right time to fill in all the gaps in Kanji, so I should go through Heisig 1+3, maybe not with a strict SRS though, it was a big help with Chinese, but now I have the necessary anchors, and following it too much with Chinese I also felt I wasted too much time when later the keywords were naturally replaced by other meanings I got through native material exposure.
So go through it, dedicate enough time to stories and images, but revise more freely. SRS, as Matt also pointed out nicely, just trains you to access the memory in that specific context of the anki/memrise card and that's it (even though he believes it still helps later on when exposing yourself to real material, I found it not so helpful after just the beginning stage of learning Danish, when I was using memrise to learn around 6000-10000 words. It just makes you access a different type of memory, not very efficient in the long run, time could be spent better than 2 hours on SRS every day, plus you risk burn out)
Branicek
Branicek
August 28, 2018, 6:29 PM
Week 32: I signed up for a CFA exam in December so concentrated on that this week, with Japanese only on 2 days reading the Tae Kim's guide, some interviews with Japanese people on the street on Youtube and finding some more websites with Japanese bilingual texts (matcha-jp.com, ..)
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