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Hey guys. I was doing so well!!! I got up to season 5 and was studying daily, but as I started a new job in October I’ve been finding it harder and harder to find time to study Japanese. It’s now been 2 months since I put studies on indefinite hold, but I can feel myself forgetting everything.
I once lost track back during season 3, but I found I could easily get myself back on track easily enough using Anki and a quick skim through the seasons alone… But a ‘quick skim’ through seasons 1 – 5 seems a tad daunting… Enough to delay me doing any recap at any rate. :P
I have so much to try to re-remember, that I simply don’t know where to begin. I’m guessing the easiest way is to power back through from square 1. I’ve reset my anki progress based on the date the cards were created, so I can go through everything as if I were adding the cards chronologically.
However, I would like to jump straight back where I was before, but that’s obviously very risky… Especially as Season 5 onwards relies much less heavily on anki.
What would you guys suggest as the best method of relearning? Would you start again or just jump straight back in where you were?
I think it depends on how well you picked up on the lessons, and how well you remember. For example, if you’re still having trouble with Hiragana / Katakana, then I’d say you might want to at least re-learn those.
I’ve opted to start again from Hiragana to recap, as I can read it fairly well but have forgotten how to write it. I also did always have some trouble remembering Katakana because I didn’t put as much effort into it as Hiragana.
Im hoping that the rest of the lessons come back naturally, based on simply getting myself back into studying at all. Hopefully I’ll reenter the mindset.
I think I need to get used to the idea that I’ll have to start anew in some areas, because 2 months is a long time to take a break from learning a tricky language.
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Viexi.
Hello!
I actually just recently restarted using Textfugu again after some time of not using it (though I will say I didn’t go as far as Season 5). I just wanted to provide some advice that may be useful just in case something similar to your situation comes up again or if something comes up and gets in the way of your studies.
One thing I’m doing personally is taking notes on a Google Drive document. I really did not feel like going back and re-reading everything, as that was a bit discouraging. But it may be a good idea to go all the way back, skim the material to find important information, and then note it down.
Plus, it would be useful if at the end of the day you wanted to go back and review what it is you noted down instead of trying to read the chapters again.
Hope this helps :)
Textfugu recommends that you keep a learning log of some sort. If you did I would just reread that but if not I would just dkim or read the chapters and create one. I find it a great point of reference since I frequently take extended breaks due to grad school. If it would help I am sure someone could share their log with you if that won’t hurt your learning process.
I had actually emailed Koichi about this topic a while back, because I’d been on a hiatus as well. This was his response:
“Well, I like it when people go through things and review them. But I’d do it in a slightly different way from reading the things and moving on.
Instead, read the title / intro to get an idea of what will be taught on each page, and then by yourself (without) looking, write the lesson as if you were teaching someone else the topic. By doing that you’ll force yourself to recall the information (better for memory) and find the holes in your memory (at which point you can look it up and solidify what you don’t know). You’ll also know what you do know which is good too. Start near the beginning and work your way through like this. You’ll come out the other end with a much stronger foundation than before, and you’ll know where you need to start out again. I think it’s worth the time to do this.”
I haven’t used TF because my life keeps changing in all different directions but for the week or two that I was keeping up, it WAS very helpful for me to do it this way.
Hope this helps! :)
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