Kawlost's Learning Log

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After more than 3 months of avoiding creating a Learning Log, it seems like I finally did it, more because it’s a new year for learning.

The main objective of this log is to keep track of my goals, store what i’ve been using to learn and be able to look back the progress.

I’ve actually started to learn a lot of time ago, could learn and not forget hiragana, but became a lot lost, on the last 3 years I could find a way, but been starting and stopping, now I’m studying more serious and saw a lot of progress on the last 3 months, I’ve built a routine and will keep it through this year, I’m actually by level 18 on manga, been also finishing some graded reads, YouTube videos and listening to podcast.

This year, I want to continue a good routine of immersion, while also improving my grammar and getting more into anime, video-games and books.

I’m going to keep updating this post as I progress.
This version is kinda incomplete, I will finish it later, need some time to think

目的 Goals

My plan for goals is to create bigger goals for the year (can change), and monthly goals to achieve the yearly ones goals.

Yearly Goals

Goal Current Progress %
Read 100 manga 0/100 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Listen 220 hours of podcast 0/220 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Watch 150 episodes of anime 0/150 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Read 5 books 0/5 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Play 7 Games 0/7 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Finish Genki w/ Game Gengo 0/1 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Finish KKLC 0/2300 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%

Last updated: ２０２５年０１月０２日

一月 January Goals

Goal Current Progress %
Read 10 manga 6.5/10 ■■■■■■□□□□ 65%
Listen 18 hours of podcast 8.3/18 ■■■■□□□□□□ 46%
Watch 12 episodes of anime 0/12 □□□□□□□□□□ 0%
Play Final Fantasy VI 4/51 □□□□□□□□□□ 8%
KKLC 30/200 ■□□□□□□□□□ 15%

Last updated: ２０２５年０１月１７日

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That‘s too big of a chunk to see any progress during the year. Seeing progress is key to keeping up motivation, I’d say. So I would do it with maybe something like finished lessons for Genki, or learned kanji of all of them kanji in the KKLC. Go for it!

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The way I think works best for me it’s to have a bigger chunk for the year, and break it into smaller pieces, like by month, and what I will do each day to achieve it, the yearly goals help me to keep on the track of what I’ve planned for the year, also because it’s for an entire year it can change, but helps me keep a routine, but this is a good point that I forgot, will change the numbers to be easier to track.

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To have yearly and monthly goals sounds like an effective strategy. I’m curious to how you will chunk those and see if I can grab something of that strategy for my own goals :smiley:

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I think now it’s going to the right direction, -I forgot to reply, すみません－, I’ve divided into things to do this month, like manga, podcast, at the moment, I want to get more into gaming, and later on some books, so I’ve put FFVI as a goal, and I’m doing like a daily goal to do everyday to achieve the monthly goals, maybe the game gets a little bit underdone this month, but I’m okay with it as it is my first game, and I still have a lot of time for the yearly goals, this is a way that’s actually working for me and getting things done, if you think you can grab something that you find useful, feel free to do it!

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