The pace of my Japanese reviews has picked up exponentially over the past few days, and while I’m so glad to have Japanese back in my daily life again, I’m already struggling to keep up.
I squeeze in review time when I can throughout the day— when drinking my morning tea, or while eating lunch, but the core of my study time is early morning if I happen to wake up before my alarm, or very late at night after my family is asleep.
I’ve been struggling to keep my eyes open while working through reviews and it’s giving me flashbacks to my university days of falling asleep on my Japanese homework at 3am (& the reason why I failed out… I was taking too many classes and literally did not have enough time in the day!)
As for the study itself: I had been working through N4 grammar on Bunpro, but then I had the brilliant idea of grinding out all of Bunpro’s N5 grammar course in a day for a quick refresher… this was not a good idea, I’m now absolutely flooded with reviews.
But, I will say that I do feel very accomplished! I genuinely don’t remember many of these grammar points aside from the basics, although somehow I was able to cram them all into a day, so the knowledge must be there somewhere hibernating in a fog in my brain.
Kanji practice has been through WaniKani and, unlike grammar, the early levels of kanji have come back to me quickly. I’ve spent many, many hours on reviews & have reached the end of the free trial levels but I haven’t learned anything new yet (｡-ω-)ｳﾜ
I’m undecided if I want to continue with WaniKani because while I do like the system, and it definitely would help with the later levels, 1) I don’t have much free time to study and it’s taking hours upon hours to reach anything new and 2) a lot of the same content is repeated in the Anki Core 2K deck.
As much as I couldn’t stand using Anki in the past, I finally see the value in it and I feel like the majority of my learning lately is coming from the Core 2k deck I’ve been reviewing.
I don’t have the perfect system in place yet, but I’m definitely learning, and I’ll keep on going bit by bit ✩