If you’ve got the time and motivation then do it.

I guess what I was trying to get at, is that people can get carried away with what they’ve ‘learnt’, and maybe over-confident and complacent because of that.

Keep re-visiting everything you’ve done.
Also, perhaps rather than doing Anki so much test yourself in different ways.
I think that’ll be more effective than doing the same thing over and over, and be a truer test of having learnt something.

Everyone’s different…if you’ve got the enthusiasm & motivation, then maybe go with it (you may not always have that!)…however, there’s nothing wrong with going slower, nothing to be ashamed of.

In terms of what you’ve ‘learnt’, it feels like you’ve ‘learnt’ the stuff you did yesterday/recently as you’re very confident with it, but as time passes are you still confident with it?

@ k man – I can’t remember, is Eboue still at Arsenal?!

Holland haven’t been great so far, looks like they may not make out of the group, which would be shocking. I read about the Danish fans chanting “Messi” everytime Ronaldo was on the ball, and it really got to him. That’s hilarious, just brilliant.

You’re right, you can survive in Japan without the language with the amount of English around and just knowing how big cities work. That’s fine for a tourist, but if you’re there long term, surely you’d want to make the effort to get more out of your experience, and learn the language, to appreciate it more. I got the impression very few foreigners bothered to learn much – I couldn’t converse, just learning phrases and the locals were shocked that I’d bothered to learn that much.

What’s happening with WaniKani? Is that available?

Agree about doing your own mnemonics.
Sometimes I’ll change the story in TF’s mnemonic (e.g. in Fat, in Now) to one that’s more obvious to me.

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@ k man – It has been hard to muster up enthusiasm for this tournament, particularly with the prospect that it’ll be low scoring. Spain-Italy was fascinating though in how Italy were able to contain them without being totally negative themselves. Spain are not invulnerable!

You’re probably right about the CL game. That image of Bendtner stopping the goal has never left me, it was so surreal! You’re right about RVP. It’s scary to think what would have happened this season without the bucket of goals he scored.

It’s only a rough plan, but I think it’s good to have some plan to help with study. It’s amazing how they don’t require people to have any Japanese to be able to go teach English – I can’t imagine how people could survive.

@ missing – thanks, fascinating

@ Joel – No, not RealKana a different one, I’ve been tearing me hair out trying to find it!!!
The one I’m thinking of had kanji on it as well you could change the font of.

Pretty sure the answers are:

1 – yes
2 – no

Also, is it ever pronounced wo?!