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Jeremy – What is your career? Good luck with all of your goals!
You’re lucky your passion list has 14. Mine was less than half in hiragana. :)
Mmmmm… How lucky that you get to enjoy all of the food. :) What is your career focus? Learning for a job is a good incentive to learn. Good luck with that!
James – I’m glad to hear it! Good luck!
Hi Ormuth! I second Joel’s questions. :) Good luck with your studies!
~Cassandra
Anna – I love your dream job!! I too am obsessed with food. My husband and I plan to take a two week+ trip to Japan in a couple years and I have a feeling most of the trip will revolve around where/what we eat. ;) Do you cook? I’m not sure how far into TextFugu you are, but have you done your passion list? Mine was all food! hehe
Cassandra
My husband’s passion is computers as well. I would suggest learning them in katakana. The extra katakana practice is great and you will need to learn those words to read articles/blog posts/etc about the computer world.
Good luck with your list!
So we’re 10 days into the new year… is anyone still working on their new year’s resolutions? I think most people tend to give up within 3 weeks. We can beat the average! ;)
I’m still meeting my goal – at least 30 minutes of study time each day. I’m actually studying a bit more than that but making sure I hit 30 minutes every single day. So far so good!
Hey Michael – I’m glad to see you’re still around, even if you are feeling stagnated. I think it’s great that even though your motivation is lacking, you’re still plugging away. Have you tried to find a reason to learn Japanese other than “it’s there?”
I’m still around, but I don’t post much. I try to read as many threads as I can (mostly for moderation purposes) without taking away from my study/life time. There really is very little moderation needed on these boards because they aren’t that active outside of the intro threads. Most people are very well behaved. ;)
As for me personally… my studies really sucked last year. I lost a LOT of motivation after struggling with and being bested by RTK. I think it’s a great program but I pushed too hard and buried myself in reviews. I tried desperately to catch up and in the process lost my motivation to study. Anki for an hour a day is NOT fun and I hate having reviews overdue. So I kept pushing to catch up, losing motivation, falling behind, trying to catch up, etc. etc. etc. Vicious cycle. I finally gave up on catching up, suspended EVERYTHING that was overdue, and kept up mostly with what was not. Then my FIL was diagnosed with cancer, I was away from home for two months with very little internet, and there went my reviews again. Coming back to several thousand Anki reviews is not motivating… especially when you’re moving across country two weeks after getting home.
I started studying again in December (bad timing with the holidays) but only studied a couple hours total the entire month. I made a New Years plan of studying at least half an hour a day and have succeeded so far. That’s where I am. About the same place skill wise as last year. 2012 was a wash. Couple that with floundering around because Textfugu ran out of lessons and it’s way too easy to waste time listening to Jpod101 lessons that are only review and you have someone who has been studying off and on for three years and still considers herself a beginner. ;) Wow it’s painful to be brutally honest…
I’m finally pushing myself to learn something new. I’m starting a new beginner series in Jpod101 tomorrow that is right at my level instead of constantly reviewing old material. Grammar should be getting harder very quickly and I need the challenge. I’m tired of being a beginner. I’m limiting my Anki reviews to 15 minutes a day so that I can concentrate on new material. Hopefully the reviews won’t back up again but if they do, they can just sit there. Right. My perfectionist self is still working through that concept…
How’s that for a long reply to a long post? ;)
Oh, and I’ve tried logging on to the Teamspeak server a couple times but have bad timing. No one was on any of the times. Hopefully I’ll catch people on one of these days.
Yeah, I have to set my limits high on a couple of decks to guarantee I don’t miss any reviews. That’s annoying but easy to workaround. For me, the issue is more about adding new cards. I constantly add new cards to decks but leave them suspended until my reviews are manageable for each day. I will hit spikes in reviews and that’s when I stop adding cards. It’s hard to know when those spikes will hit, though, since Anki no longer tells me what will be due tomorrow. I don’t like browsing the deck to check because I inevitably will see both sides of the cards and thus my reviews aren’t as accurate because I got a “sneak peak.”
I have Anki 2.0 and like it. I haven’t noticed any bugs. The only complaint I have (and maybe someone can point out the feature if I’m just missing it) is that the new version does not tell you how many reviews you will have tomorrow. The old version would tell me at the end of my session that I would have x-reviews due in x-days. This new version does not show that so I have no idea how many cards will be due tomorrow. It irritates me because I don’t want to study more today if it will add a TON more due cards tomorrow. Since I have no way of knowing what’s due tomorrow, it’s hard to know how many more cards I should add today while keeping my reviews tomorrow manageable.
Ah, ok! Makes sense. :) Enjoy your time in Japan!
Good luck with your JLPT goals!
Hi Michelle! Welcome! If you don’t mind me asking, how did you end up in Japan? I’m so jealous! :) Good luck with your studies!
~Cassandra
almalgam – welcome! Japan by 30 is a good goal. May I ask how long that leaves you to study? I just turned 30. :) Good luck!
