Guess who read every single day in 2023, but forgot it on the 30th of December? That’s right, it’s me.
Ah, well, 364 out of 365 is still a pretty good result. Guess I’ll have to try this again in 2024!
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Since I’m going for a holiday trip, I haven’t though too deep into my goals.
I’ll be taking a break, and then look back and probably think of it more positively. It’s been a rough year 
Happy new year everyone!
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A bit late for the party but here we go
Since I didn’t make any goals for 2023 I’m just going to post what I did
2023 Year in Review
- Read 90 volumes of manga, about 14k pages, which took about 149h
- Wanikani Level 26->38 / 12 levels in 106h
- Anki 1744 new cards and 25,861 reviews and completed following decks in 77h
- N4 Tango Vocab
- N4 Tango Omega
- N3 Tango
- Bunpro for 9h
2024 goals
- Reach Wanikani level 60
- Read at least volume light novel
- Finish Tobira
- Create 3k Anki cards
- Read 100 manga volumes
- Watch a video of booktuber channel (https://www.youtube.com/@bellebook)
- Watch 60h videos in Japanese (can be anime) with jp subs or without sub
- N4 mock exam over 85% on all categories
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I’m probably a little bit late here, but Imma share mine anyway 
2023 in Review
I don’t really have much to report here, but I started Japanese after dreaming 10 years about learning the language, so I’ll consider that year a victory, just because of that! 
Here’s what I was able to get done last year:
- Started learning Japanese on Nov 30th
- WaniKani: Level 1 → Level 6
- Started Bunpro
Goals for 2024:
Now, these are pretty hardcore, especially because I started with absolutely zero knowledge about the language, but I belive that I can reach them!
- Level 60 WaniKani
- Finish grammar on Bunpro up to N1
- Get to a level where I can comfortably read and listen to ~N2 material
- Watch at least one anime in Japanese without subtitles (I’m a slow watcher lol)
Let’s see how the year goes!
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We’re getting close to the end of the first quarter of the year, how are you all doing so far?
36/150 books so far
I’ve been doing shadowing practice but not daily, I actually feel like I improve more but not practicing everyday.
I’ve only just got round to booking some italki sessions, I plan to do 3-4 30mins sessions per week.
No new friends 
but theres still time!
N1 test is still a maybe.
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Very timely of you to ask! Because this pile:
…after chipping at it with 50-75 cards per day now finally looks like this:
After I’m done with it today I’ll be at 0 for the first time in… maybe 2 years! 
Apart from that, I’ve been reading every day, so that goal is on track.
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Thanks to @Psdes for updating this thread, I almost forgot about it My goals are going pretty well so far this year!
Japanese
- 12/50 novels (on track)
- 16/50 volumes of manga (on track)
- Making progress with finishing series, but none done yet
- 15/100 hours of pure listening done (a bit behind)
23/20 TBR books read- completed!
Mandarin
- I’m at 1.13/2M all time (mostly from 你的表情包比本人好看), but I’ve been mostly reading manhua. For reference, I started the year around 1M characters read.
- No physical books done yet
- Same for physical manhua
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It’s probably good to take a quick status check of where I’m at.
…Welp, I haven’t started this at all. @.@ I need to be a bit more disciplined if I want to cross this goal off my list.
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I’m at 0/0 novels. You all can decide if I’m at 0%, 100%, ∞%, or undefined.
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Oh boy, check-in time! 
Japanese
2241/5000 pages read → 44% there
1/4 nonfiction books read → 25%
24 hours of conversation practice → 46%
61 hours of listening practice → 21%
4/5 books from my physical backlog → 80%
I also added on a lil writing goal after making this list:
5364/20,000 characters written → 26%
Swedish
10k anki deck…has been modified so extensively I’m just not going to track this one
I have not read and am not anywhere near reading HP in Swedish
I did start tracking, late, my Swedish hours. So far I have:
11 hours Swedish listening with dual Swedish/English subs
2 hours Swedish listening with only Swedish subs
1 hour Swedish reading practice
13 min Swedish listening with no subs
5 min Swedish reading with audio
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For 2024, some general goals:
- Read all SAO novels (31 unread from main series + progressive)
- Be able to read lower L30s books and various visual novels comfortably, without translation
- Seriously improve my reading speed
- Transition to only using monolingual dictionary(?)
- Improve my writing/conversation ability
LNs: When I started off the year, I was in a much more “I wanna do LNs” mindset, but so far I’ve finished 139 manga and 1 LN … I’ll start getting more done tho via reading along to audiobooks
Reading speed: is slowly but steadily progressing… I can tell via weekly lessons (I hope it won’t backslide much due to job searching/eventual new job)
I’d love to read Fate/Stay Night, but I think that will probably have to wait till 2025
Last year (written in January)
I didn’t set any particular goals, but I’d say I did pretty well on the general things I wanted to accomplish, but not as well as I would have liked.
Finished:
- 15 light novels
- 164 manga
- 558 anime episodes/movies
- 1,000 or so written kanji in Ringotan
- Read 286 out of 341 days
- Watched 142 out of 341 days
Moved on from:
- WaniKani (L55?)
- Satori Reader
Lately, I’ve been progressively reading more manga and light novels without translation, but even in easier LNs, I have to look things up constantly. I can sometimes watch YouTube vids targeted at intermediate learners, or various short clips, and follow them pretty comfortably. Otoh the only anime I feel like I can watch without checking translation are SAO, 五等分の花嫁, and possibly Fate/Stay Night UBW (very iffy) - and that’s mainly because I’ve seen/read them multiple times. So it’s both encouraging and disappointing.
I’m getting comfier at reading plot summaries in JP
Where I fell short: generally I thought my comprehension would be higher, and I wanted to finish more LNs. Also my listening comprehension (without subtitles) is pretty far behind where I would have wanted it. But that makes sense, since it’s not something I’ve focused on at all.
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- 3 books where from my physical TBR so far, so that’s on track
- I have read a few first volumes.
- Book Club goal is on track
- Bingo card is looking good
- even if I exclude audiobooks, I am on track with reading a book per week.
- Missed 1 day of reading.
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My goals were vague to begin with (by design), so it’s hard to keep track properly, but let’s see:
I’ve finished 12 books so far and I may or may not finish another one. Last year I had read 11 books by the end of March, so I guess it’s going okay.
Three books so far are by authors I’ve never read before. Several more in my TBR.
So far so good.
Let’s see. So far I’ve gotten 12 new books 
, out of which I read 3. The remaining 9 were from my 積読. I guess it’s going well(ish).
I haven’t practiced listening this year AT ALL. I need to get to it.
I’m doing this, very slowly. I have a Japanese textbook for Korean which I like, and several apps which I hate. It’s going slowly though, because for some reason Korean is failing to fascinate me the way Japanese did when I was starting to learn it. Early days though.
Strangely, I’ve listened to more Korean than Japanese lately, not that it does me much good, as I basically just understand hello, thank you, yes, no and let’s go. 
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this is a fun check in, nice idea
I’m happy with my progress so far:
- Book goal:
2/2 books (close to finishing a third) (Bingo card) - Manga goal: 1/2 manga (with 2 additional almost finished)
- New goal defined: I am trialling pre-learning kanji (by frequency) to read とんがり帽子のアトリエ with the new IMC club
Other stuff I’m happy about:
- Started my own club to read paper escape style books
- Will lead the Frieren club from April!
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Currently on a good way to do so, I managed to maintain my 1 week/level pace and am now at level 18.
Recently finished N3, currently just adding N2 and N1 grammar points occassionally, but my main focus is to get good at N3 now.
0% haha (though my reading definitely improved a lot)
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- Quartet is on track
- So far, I read one book in physical form and am close to finishing another one.
- I finished around half of the manga I bought in 2023, so I am on track
- Happily reporting that, so far, I am only doing 2 book clubs at a time.
- I read 1 book of that pile so far I am not making great progress
- Still haven’t found anyone new.
- Haven’t found anyone to do speaking practice with
- I am taking italki lessons again, so through that I am getting my output practice in any case
As expected, Japanese is a breeze while I struggle with the language that doesn’t interest me much a big surprise.
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Why are you learning the other languages if they don’t interest you?
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So I can talk to and understand my in-laws and friends of my partner not everyone can speak English, unfortunately.
(yes, those are technically 4 languages, but in general this is one language that I am learning since they are mutually intelligible.)
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Even if they could, it’s a nice gesture, imo. For all intents and purposes, you are the outsider and showing the willingness to adapt and integrate is surely going to be appreciated by your partner and his their social circle. (at least I hope so. )
Edit to escape the heteronormitivity that got me again.
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Yeah, not even is the social circle really happy about it, people from the region in general are very shocked (in a good way) when you learn the language. Nihongo jouzu is nothing against the sheer excitement most people from those regions have when you are able to hold a simple conversation in their language 
I think I mentioned in other posts that he is my husband, so maybe you just subconsciously remembered. I just don’t like using the word husband for some reason
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