Earwen's Japanese study log (no more German edition)

  • wk deck: done with level 37. I think I’ll add some cards from levels ahead this week and not start 38
  • still listening to 変な家 audiobook, as well as 時をかける少女 (audiobook + ebook). I want to keep focusing on manga for a bit, so I’ll probably pick another audiobook or audio drama when I am done with these two.
  • 8 vols of manga.
  • read a bit of code_18 , still not done with the route

Stats

wk deck:37/45
manga: 32+8/75
books:7/6

This week I had a day I didn’t study for my minimum 1 hour for the first time in the year. It was bound to happen sooner or later.

I made some goals for german in the 2025 goals thread. I will track my german goals here again though it’s going to remain jp focused.
german stats
listening: 2/100 hours (started tracking yesterday)
books: 1/12 (1 non owned book, 0 owned books)

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This week I had another day of <1 hour studying. I need to take care for this to not become a habit.

  • wk deck: I didn’t study any new cards. My relationship with anki is a cyclical love-hate one and I am in the “hate” phase right now. I just have to ride it out without making more work for myself. Soon enough I will think it is the best thing ever again.
  • Manga: so…I said I’m focusing on manga lately, and this is true. More specifically I want to read <level 25 manga on my list. The perhaps faulty logic for this is as follows: these are manga I want to read, and the better I get at japanese the “less” I will get out of simpler manga. So the best time to read them are now. I will continue doing this for a while but I think I also need to work with some harder stuff…
  • I am joining the ミーナの行進 book club so that could fill the spot of “harder thing to read”. I looked at the first few pages and yep definitely will take me a while to get through it. I hope I can keep up with the club.
  • no progress on 時をかける少女 because along with the audiobook this is my book to read while in a noisy room, and it hasn’t been necessary for the past week.
  • 変な家 finished audiobook. Definitely helped that I knew the story from the manga already (I would recommend the manga over the novel).
  • code_18: finished the third route. 2 routes left. I changed my ocr setup so I can make anki cards, which made me a bit more excited to continue this. (if anyone is curious i now user owocr + jl)

stats
jp
wk deck:37/45
manga: 40+6/75
books:7+1/6

de
listening 2 + 4.8 hrs /100
books 1/12

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