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)
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)
This week was stressful for personal reasons. I think I did study the min 1 hr amount everyday but to be honest I didn’t track as strictly as usual.
wk deck: same as last week more or less, I did add the vocab from level 38 which had kanji from earlier levels but that’s it.
Listened to yuri cd drama lilycle, because I wanted some easy listening in a busy week. And well, it was easy listening like I expected. But it was also utterly dull. The most interesting part was the voice actors talking at the end, and I don’t really have a strong interest in those generally. The other cds follow different couples, so maybe I’ll still check them out since theyre all 1 hour anyway and it’s a good backup option when I can’t get anything more mentally taxing done.
started persona 3 portable, and at some point switched to japanese just to see what it was like. It felt surprisingly doable.
Watched a few eps of various anime. I dropped Canaan because it just didn’t live up to my memory of it.
I wasn’t much in the headspace to read this week I guess, only 2 vols of manga.
Started “properly” and read the first chapter. A lot of sentences where I have to look up 3-5 words. Not going great.
no significant progress on code_18, though I did read a bit.
Anyway lastly I want to add a new section of monthly goals. This is less about actual language learning and more about finishing stuff I start, really. Especially for shows, I tend to forget I’m in the middle of things.
things to do next month
finish do it yourself anime (only a couple eps left)
finish chainsawman rewatch in jp (only 1 ep in but should be easy since it’s both a rewatch and I read the manga.)
finish yugioh gx manga (2 vols left)
finish ハッピーシュガーライフ (9 vols left)
finish 4th route of code_18
finish the german book from my shelf I’m reading that I’ve been ignoring for 5 months
yeah, that’s how I know of it, a friend who likes it mentioned it was based on the drama cds. I didn’t play it and if it’s the same tone as the first drama, probably not my thing.
started wk level 38. honestly still kind of in the “hate” phase of the anki cycle but my reviews were low enough that I might as well
finished 時をかける少女. Trying to find my next ebook + audio pick, they either didn’t hold my interest or, in 成瀬は天下を取りにいく case the audiobook was faaar to fast even on 0.9x speed I frequently have to pause, it’d be easier to read it without audio. I listened to a bit of 安達としまむら and it seems much easier (it helps that i am familiar with the anime though…) so I think I’ll pick that.
keeping up with ミーナの行進
code_18: about halfway through the current route, I really would like to finish it next week.
read 5 manga vols
watched a few eps of anime, as well as the usual youtube.
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listening: i keep underestimating how annoying it is for me to track this. I stopped it once again. Besides 100 hours untill the mid point of the year was probably very unrealistic, considering I’m still focusing on jp.
books 1/12
I generally find audiobooks, even in japanese, way too slow so this was a bit shocking to me. I would have loved this speech in english though since I always speed it up. It’s good to know it wasn’t just me that found it too fast.
There is also an abridged version of the book as an audiobook, which is more like an audio drama. Though I want to read the full text so I didn’t really try that version. Since audiobooks in jp still seem relatively rare (compared to big english language publishers where books are almost guranteed to have one) I was surprsed there are two versions.
