So, next week (a week from now-ish) I’ll be in a car driving to horribly boring places as a passenger. To keep working, I bought one of those Verizon Mifi things so I have internet access for (most of) the trip and even a car→outlet converter thing so I can plug my laptop in and work. Boring car rides are great times to work on boring (but important) things, I think, so I wanted to get some feedback to see if you had anything you were champing at the bit for. I have some ideas of things I’d work on, so here they are – what do you think?

Kanji: I could spend a $$@#-ton of time working on kanji. Pros: I’ll get a lot of kanji done, and kanji is necessary to the regular lessons as well, at least idealy. Cons: Lots of kanji…

Kanji Workbook: One of the things I’m working on to make kanji better is a workbook people can go through to help themselves learn the kanji and vocab much more effectively. Also working on much better anki decks (one should come out today) that will help too, but this is a much bigger project… I’d say 20-30 hours on this sounds about right, so it wouldn’t take the whole time, but will also help with some of the issues folks have with memorizing kanji / vocab. It’ll just make studying easier.

Grammar Section: I’d downvote this one personally in favor of “real” content, but thought I’d throw it out there. Kind of exists here but I haven’t done anything to it / with it. Could be something that I could get done / work on while in the car, but I think other things are more important.

Core Lessons: Prolly could get a few core lessons done too. Would also include some of the 6-stroke kanji (10 per lesson) so that’d slow things down a little, but would basically end up being ~3 or 4 weeks of content, all at once. Con is that kanji / other things won’t get done, pro is that it’s pretty normal stuff, just faster.

Conversation Section: Probably can’t do this one, just because of audio editing / bandwidth and such, but might be able to get the first Conversation lesson done, since much of the editing is already in place (just the explanation, etc., needs to happen). This is more high-intermediate / advanced anyways, though, so I’d tend to think this one isn’t as important (right this moment anyways), but thought I’d throw it out there…

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Now, obviously not going to work solely on one thing, I think (don’t want to go insane), but would be awesome to hear what things you think are most important, that way if there’s a resounding “YESSSS” to one of them, I can make sure I focus on that!

Also, anything else you see as being something you’d want to see get slapped around a bit? Let me know what you think!