I wrote a long, handwringy post in my learning log about a month back reflecting on my 2024 goals in a lot more detail, but for a high level summary:
2024 Goals
Read comfortably at about level 30, listen comfortably at about level 25
Read more days than not
Finish 3 book club books
Finish 3 Switch games
Additionally I finished the year with a little over 6k (non-manga) pages read, and a ton of listening hours (I haven’t calculated the total yet, but just audiobooks are more than 75 hours). With that in mind, I set up my next year’s goals to be difficult, but still less than I achieved this year, with some additional stretch goals in mind if I meet these early.
2025 Goals
☐ 1/4 of finished books* are orange levels
☐ Finish a physical manga series that I own**
☐ Finish a VN
☐ Read every day (I’m able to)
☐ 250 listening hours
☐ 5k non-manga pages read
*I’m not counting manga in these numbers since I view reading manga as more of a hobby than a way to improve my Japanese. It won’t not improve it, but having been a manga-only reader for many many years until recently, I know from experience that it’s not actually that great for my language skills.
**This can be a series I’ve already started, except for the one series that I only have one more book left to catch up to the most recent release.
