I stayed there over half a year on a working holiday visa while attending language school so everything was paid for by me. Wish I could’ve gotten a scholarship of some sort to pay it all.

Yeah it’s an auto hotkey script(doesn’t get much simpler which is why I can use it). It can be run directly from a .txt document and is a very easy way to automate task on your computer. It is pretty simple and is mainly used to simulate key strokes, mouse moves, clicks etc.. But also has a lot of other functions.

This script will be hard to customize for other computers since many parameters are awfully specific. For example the coordinates of mouse clicks will be different if you have another resolution than me, and I use 16:10 which isn’t very common. It also requires you to use firefox – some hotkeys I used in the script won’t work in other browsers. And on top of that you’d also need to customize your anki/script so everything matches.
I added a lot of error messages though so finding out where things go wrong should be fairly easy.

I am not going to explain the script, but below is the hotkeys used to run it. You can look up all the commands I used on autohotkey.com

The hotkeys are:
alt+s starts everything necessary to run the script. Firefox if not already opened, tabs in the correct orber and tagaini jisho.
alt+f opens an inputbox to look up a word

The following three hotkeys copy what is marked to a specific field of anki and returns the mouse the the position it was at when it copied.
alt+z top field(kanji)
alt+x middle top(hiragana
alt+c middle bottom(example sentence)
alt+v bottom(meaning)

I will be going to Japan this January staying with a host family for 6 months and attending a Japanese language school for a total of 400+ hours. Even if I don’t pass N3, N2 will be my goal. Having something to study for always helps me stay motivated :)

I don’t always listen to 48G(AKB48 group) related stuff. It’s probably nothing more than a few hours every week. I have the TV-shows I always watch and then some radio here and there. I will be honest and admit I don’t watch much not related to 48G even though I should start doing so. So as for recommendations for non idol related content I don’t really have any.
I would however always recommend watching shows with Japanese subs as a beginner/ lower intermediate learner. It gets much less frustrating to watch because you can understand a lot more by reading. And it will also allow you to pause a section you don’t understand well, look up what the subs say, replay it and see if you understand it this time around etc. If there are words you don’t understand, the combination of the kanji on screen and the audio should make you able to type out the word so you can look it up, and perhaps add it to Anki so it won’t bother you in the future.
Variety shows often have a lot of Japanese subs, but of course you can also just add Japanese subs to a drama etc, though they often seem to tackle more difficult subjects than variety shows.

Strictly speaking you said AKB48, so here’s a radio show I listen to weekly with NMB48 :P
No specific topic so it’s easy to understand and always funny.

Also, Michael feel free to add me on skype etc. Just write to my mail and I will reply you back.
565a3dad@opayq.com (this mail forwards to my real mail)

Hi Joel. Glad to hear you did well despite feeling so unsecure at one point. I found the hardest part of the test to be the last part of listening – the part where you have to chose the right answer. Rest of it I felt pretty confident about so I think I will pass. Here’s hoping you will as well :D

I will be doing N2 in 6 months, maybe you’ll join me? :P
Sorry for the late response I’ve been very busy with work and arrange my upcoming trip to Japan.