Hugs! If you need recommendations for guaranteed friendly and chill italki teachers I worked with a bunch last year during my 30hrs/30days speaking challenge and can point you to some good people
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I’d appreciate it! 
Can’t hurt I think, maybe I can come back to it once I feel better.
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[SRS] Renshuu Stats:
Words: 9572 (~500 more than last time I checked)
Kanji: 1875 (36 new ones learned)
I finally finished the Shin Kanzen N3 series, though now I have to go through grammar again and work on my weak points. I made good progress with the order/star questions, these feel much easier now than previously. I think working on modifying clauses helped a lot.
I’m going through the 日本語の森 playlist as well, I really like their videos with the consistent structure, it’s easy to understand even though it’s in Japanese, though sometimes the explanations are a bit short, some of the nuances and details of a grammar point are not really explained further.
So complementing a lot with the grammar dictionaries.
SKM Listening was relatively fine but I struggle a bit with the longer sections which have a lot of keigo. Definitely need to brush up on those expressions too.
After JLPT next month I want to get back to Tobira, and ease a bit on new vocab.
Still reading through 美しい彼 but started 憎らしい彼 too simultaneously, since plot-wise I’m already spoiled by the CD Drama.
Recently I watched another BL drama: 永遠の昨日 S1 | L33.
It’s a general recommendation, even though I had problems getting into the story for the first episodes. It was pretty touching and the end had me by the tear ducts.
We have a high school setting with a gloomy guy and a cheerful guy, and things take a turn when cheerful guy is hit by a truck but seemingly unharmed. Their relationship is very sweet and I like the fact that they are already in an established relationship when the events unfold.
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I’m struggling working through the Shin Kanzen Master N4 series at the moment. If it’s ok to ask, did you find that working through the series in a certain order helped you to internalise more of it or did you just work through them concurrently or based on what you wanted to work on at the time?
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Hmm, I worked in the order Vocab, Grammar, Reading, Listening, but Grammar took the longest and I finished it last, studying it concurrently with the other books.
Since I did a lot of outside studying with Renshuu and reading in general, the order did not matter that much (since it was mostly review), but some people recommend going Kanji > Vocab > Grammar > Reading, since they build up on each other.
Listening is kinda separate, though it also needs some good grammar foundation as well, especially keigo and giver/receiver, active/passive forms.
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