Hey all.

So besides the motivation dip people have posted about, (yes, I have this too, big time right now, but I’ll read others posts for inspiration.) I have a problem with studying the verbs. TextFugu gives you 2 relatively large lists in quite quick succession, and I can barely remember the verbs on the first. I’ve tried flash cards, writing them down on post-its, using Anki. (pointless, because I spend all the time hitting “Again” and not getting anywhere)

Does anyone have a good solution to keeping the verbs in their head?

Another problem I’ve noticed is that i’ve been happily going through the Anki nouns and sentences, learning what the meaning is, and reading them. However, given an ENGLISH word, the chances of me translating back to Japanese is pretty low. This whole tutorial gets you learning the reading and translation to english, and not FROM english. This means, when given a sentence I’d like to say to someone, I really struggle to remember the words in Japanese. Given Japanese spoken at me, I recognise the patterns in the words and can translate to english just fine.

Again, one else experiencing this and how did they get around it?