/qa/ - Questions & Answers

>>154054
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1607129785
at least until part3

>>154054
Delete Duol*ngo from your internet history, for your own good. It does not teach grammar, it teaches you how to reorder words how they want you to and it is not good. It is not good for learning kanji or words either.
Learn some basic grammar, learn to recognize a few hundred kanji and some thousand or two thousand words, and start reading erotic novels about little girls going to the park and eating ice cream. You might wanna start with a manga though, pictures can help with context in the beginning until you get used to things. Mokuro (ocr manga) is great in combination with Yomitan (web browser hover over any word for dictionary lookup).

For grammar, maybe read through tae kim.
You can also try DOJG and DOJG deck
https://core6000.neocities.org/dojg/
https://dojgdeck.neocities.org/
It will streamline your learning a bit if you need a kick in the back to know where to walk in the beginning.

If you really REALLY struggle to tell kanji apart you can try something like https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1722008986 this "radical" deck to learn some basic components. The names are not official and they are not actually radicals.
After that I think kaishi 1.5k is maybe better than core 2k or core6k https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1196762551 but I honestly didn't use either of them so I can't say for sure. I just know kaishi is suposed to be hyper specific for people who want to start immersing immediately which everyone should want to.
You'll want to mine your own words anyways, it's easier when your reviews and new words are all words you've recently tried reading. Misunderstandings can be cleared up over time when a sentence doesn't make sense with context, then you look into the word causing issues due to multiple meanings or a vaguely different meaning than you thought.

>>154056
I don't use duo anymore, I learnt katakana from tofugu this time.
> to recognize a few hundred kanji and some thousand or two thousand wo
You shouldn't say that so lightly, "just learn 100+ alphabet bro" but I suppose I have no choice. I will also use these links, I was looking for resources.
>>154055
Thank
>>154061
Wakaranai :(

https://dokushoclub.com/free-reading-resources/n4-free-reading-resources/
Gonna try and tackle a book or two for a month until I switch over to N3 grade for the rest of the year, I figure

My 1 month N4 speedrun ciriculum is probably going to be something like this... it's designed to gateway me into not being completely out of depth approaching N3 graded content and communication topics during the months of June/July.

Raw Vocab+Kanji :
Core 2000 Part 3 along with already studied 1 & 2
https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/1752619191
Supposedly the hardest in the original Core 2000 set?
- overall 600+ kanji in sentences

Literary Reading:
n4 books
https://dokushoclub.com/2025/04/25/n4-the-human-chair/
Along with 2 other selections from:
https://dokushoclub.com/free-reading-resources/n4-free-reading-resources/
- Pick out vocabulary I don't know and memorize them from 3 books

Mixed media entertainment:
Anime/Eroge/Games
Not for purpose of vocabulary but casual understanding of media.
Cheating allowed for better engagement with material.
- 3 major titles for the month

Listening:
Audiodrama/ASMR etc.
Be able to hear words in casual settings.
Applying learned vocabulary with a vocal settings.
- 1 title per week

Goal: Hit a strong enough beginner level that I can begin to tackle intermediate topics and approach dynamic+real world language scenarios using tools and learned skills.

Something kinda concerning about the listening training is how I can't actually look up words on the fly so I have to just make mental note of everything I don't understand and try to make associations with vocabulary I'll learn later.

Very hard to get vocabulary training out of listening

This site looks pretty great.
https://yomuyomu.app/lessons/courses/2-the-human-chair?chapter=2
If I get value out of it I'll probably get 2 months worth of subscription on it

>>154094
the secret to listening, as insane as it may sound is "to just understand it". What is crucial for that is film. You want to watch film (or anime, I suppose), so you can SEE the subject of the conversation. If you know WHAT they are talking about, you can make connections much more easily.
A central aspect in studying by listening is being comfortable with not understanding. Your brain is good enough to handle all this, as long as you can understand the words.

>>154094
Have you tried using the memento video player? It has yomichan built-in for Japanese subtitles, so you can look stuff up.

>>154097
true enough. I was thinking of approaching listening the same way you do in an academic setting with the cassette tapes just playing things like interviews, expecting you to the fill out a questionaire to show you understood it or not.
Having the visual cues is much more realistic. Still I think I will do both, but I should place more emphasis on the visual parts of listening

>>154101
Was picking that movie part of your plan?

>>154101
dubfags would tell you they're unable to hear the difference between hardy's peerless performance and that of yamaji

>>154102
もちろんだ

>>154104
honestly, the place scene is such a masterpiece of acting. Aidan Gillen's performance of CIA is one of the highest points of cinema in the previous decade.

Flashcards are too addicting... It's like the only thing I can do consistently with little push. I know I need to stop doing them but I can just pull out my phone and run out 300 of them for 30 minutes and then feel like I've done enough

>>154308
Used to do the same thing, but didn't feel like it wasn't enough. My goal was remembering as much kanji/vocab as I could, and I was doing it everyday for 2+ hours for at least a year; came out remembering a shit ton of kanji. The readings at least... Writing goes away as soon as you stop anki (if you were practicing writing). I don't know the deck you're using, but the deck I was using also gave audio/text examples of the kanji in use so it worked immersion as well.

>>154308
I wake up, drink my coffee, do my flashcards, then read and watch stuff the rest of the day. Flashcards are a chore, but not one I dislike doing. You don't need to stop doing them, but you need to get addicted to something else in addition. If you really need some numbers to motivate yourself, start chasing numbers on anidb/mal/al, mydramalist, vndb, and such. Feel accomplishment in your "hours immersed" statistic that you can look at and go, wow I used Japanese a lot this month.

Besides, need to mine new cards.

This yomuyomu.app website actually has a flashcard builder where you can save kanji from their articles and stories... it's something I've wanted for hgames earlier this year but would have had to manually build myself.

Speaking of which, has anyone built their own decks before?

>>154328
WAITWAITWAIT
YOU DIDN'T LOOK AT https://lazyguidejp.github.io/jp-lazy-guide/ YET?
DO IT RIGHT NOW

>>154331
yeah, I just put them into a spreadsheet and said I'd do it later

It's surprisingly easy to write out kanji once you get the knack for the typical writting patterns of horizontal bars, then vertical lines. With a couple of exceptions.
When I get the gist of that I can start to do repetition drills in the form of Look, Cover, Write, Check ... something which is apparently only really drilled into you in the UK elementary school system ... and memorize words at a more reliable rate than flashcards.



>>154331
I guess the audio capture in ShareX is what you're trying to point out?
I dunno. There's so much other teaching material that gives you what you're looking for without having to set up text and audio extractors.
And for this other stuff outside of teaching material... Kinda superstitious like where I think that putting in more effort to find something means you'll remember it better

>>153447
The pronunciation of words is such a difficult thing... I can't get used to adjusting myself to it and I suck at correcting my voice since I don't even know how to use it in English...

>>154593
was doing something for the first time ever easy

1hr30min of flashcards a day is quite something...

>>154608
No it's not but I've tried rolling my Rs constantly and for some reason anything intentional that's vocal I just consistently suck at. Makes me wish I wasn't raised on American English and instead proper British English since there's more of a concentrated effort in it to sound proper unlike in American where you just sound the way you sound and it's ok.

>>154616
The Japanese G sounds seems much weirder to me.

https://enunciate.arts.ubc.ca/japanese/lets-practice/rariru/

>>154616
I remember some kids struggled with rolling Rs in my native language despite most kids already being long capable of it. They all got it eventually, you probably will too if you keep trying and practicing.

>>154618
You are thinking from an English native perspective so you are more blind to how absurd English is. The English G is retarded (And here in English it's practically silent?). It's pronounced gee (じい) (alternatively germ ジェるむ　if you want a real word), but also good　ぐっど. It's not even the same sound. がげぎごぐ are consistent and not intermixable with じゃ　ジェ　じ　じょ　じゅ like English or being almost unnoticeable in -ing sounds.

>>154609
Don't fall into card hell like I did. It just makes your JP more random if you know a bunch of vocab and don't have good practice in actually stringing them together with grammar and knowing which are proper in what scenarios. There's conversational words and ones more for text and then ones that are very conversational and if you don't understand what is what when you're speaking you'll be making mistakes left and right that make you sound very unnatural. Also cards kinda suck in that they give you the English definitions of words and not the JP ones so they leave out a bit of context if they're not explicitly stating what each word is for in particular. Its something I noticed from use of my own core2k deck in that I end up with a bunch of words that I think could fit a particular use case but because of a facet of the Japanese definition that was left out I don't understand that there's only one word that actually works.

Like you wouldn't say「ドアノブを握る」, you'd say「ドアノブを掴む」. Even though both seem to have an English definition of "grip", but「握る」describes a state and「掴む」describes the action.

Also there was a card that used「さす」as a way to describe "pour" or "apply to" with the example sentence「自転車に 油をさしたの」but it just caused me confusion in the long run because I believed I was able to say something like「牛肉にバッターを差した」to mean "I rubbed butter into the steak" which is completely wrong. Not just because I used the wrong verb but because I was mistakenly lead to believe that I could use a single verb as "Rub into", in this case「塗る」is the proper verb for rub but to make it apply for the case of "Rub into" it needs to be「塗り込む」. What「差す」actually works for in the case of the example sentence is because of the shape of the item you use to apply the oil onto a bicycle. It's a tube usually and「差す」is used for those sort of shaped items like umbrellas or katanas. It's odd and somewhat complex but apparently for that case you want to look at more visuals for what's expressed to understand what's going on since there's a lot of those kinds of verbs in Japan that may seem like they have one English meaning but actually it's just something completely different that's only being translated into English in one way because that's the easiest way to use it in the sentence. Also「注ぐ」is the proper word for general pouring.

>>154619
The thing is that when I listen to japanese G it's more like an N midsentence, but i think sometimes it's a hard G as well...

>>154621
These problems are mainly a lack of immersion and flashcards do not deserve a bad reputation from them. Flashcards help you understand the immersion, that's what they're for. Flashcards are not meant to make you master and output language.
When you use flashcards, you need to accept them as vague template database entries in your brain waiting for input. Always assume you don't understand a word until you've seen it dozens of times in context, and most likely your brain won't try to use them if you've only seen them in writing either. Eventually you can also switch to Japanese dictionary flashcards. Some of the JP definitions will still be vague and immersion will eventually solve most of these.
If anon is a neet, 1 hour of flashcards in the morning and 10 hours of immersion is reasonable. Eventually anon will either run out of mined flashcards or increase the difficulty of whatever anon is reading and watching to get new flashcards.

Of course you don't have to use flashcards if you don't want to and overreliance on them is bad and arguably someone who isn't a neet and has more limited time should just immerse or use a *very* low flashcard amount for common words they know they struggle with and nothing else so they don't lose precious immersion time, but they are a godsend for people who have to learn how to read thousands of kanji and people who want to learn how to read an insane amount of words a year. I also have some mined cards that I end up just suspending immediately when I get to them, it means I learned those naturally, but I have an considerable amount of cards that show up and I don't even remember coming across it before. These would take forever to remember how to input without anki, but I still want to learn them fast.

>>155110
the algorithm giveth and taketh

>>155110
The truth is and always has been that you need to get a real job in Japan.
English teacher is not a real job.

thinking about creating sample sentences with vocabulary I get wrong twice in a deck

>>155641
Never taken the time to try to create a memory palace, does it work like it's shown in Sherlock? Do you have 10s of thousands of rooms with each kanji?

>>155643
I lack discipline and focus, so it's a sparse landscape.
Just attesting that it does work if you take the steps to visualize it as an exercise a few times. I warp myself to the familiar landscape, even if it has nothing related to what I'm trying to recall, then "walk" from there.

Started using very easy a lot more after learning about some quirks with Anki's staging system. By doing too much Easy and Again you end up trapping yourself with redoing too many easy cards diluting your progress and time.

https://readbroca.com/anki/ease-hell/

Due tommorow: 489 cards

>>155645
I think this gets fixed if you use the FSRS algorithm plugin. Don't know if they've integrated it into base anki yet.

>>155652
It's in the base version now, just press options on a deck.

>>155645
I do like it this way, because it forces a certain level of perpetual perfection and discipline.

> Food for the Soul (日々は過ぎれど飯うまし, Hibi wa Sugiredo Meshi Umashi, lit. "Days Go By But Food Is Delicious")
Translations...

>>155676
this is idiomatic language that doesn't exist in English, you have to use a separate idiom with similar meaning. This ain't the right one, though. As "food for the soul" isn't literal food.

>>155677
I swear you could buy a book off of the bookshelves with a title structured similarly.
Unless there's some special meaning to it that associates it with soul food, or the literary genre associated with meaningless feel good stuff...

thinking of adjusting from 'listening to audio' to 'audio translations' but audio is a pain because I can't find JLPT ranked audio.

ChatGPT saves again.
Reminded me of this site and found me a couple of other samples
https://jpdb.io/anime-difficulty-list

https://chatgpt.com/share/6848af50-6ca8-8002-9861-29c5d0e94917

Hitting very easy is helping my card distribution slowly, only 488 cards due tomorow apparently, but it is actually more than that I think and anki is lying. Takes so much time

Only 4509 cards(minus any katakana cards that are easy) left.
new cards per day: 115
Time that I stop using flashcards to learn the core2000 vocab: 39 Days.
Estimated end date: July 21st

Total Cards actions today: 1005

I stopped beating my head with anki cards and just started playing VNs and watching anime with JP subs. Definitely lazier but I feel like I've made a decent amount of progress in terms of recognizing kanji/comprehending sentence structures.

>>155932
on topic sager

>>155932
You can do both.

>>155938
Not if you're doing 1k cards a day, then you're doing Anki all day.

>>155939
So do less cards.

I'm mixed between whole-word-reading or kanji memorization+pronounciation for Japanese adult learners...

thought inspired by https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvCT31BOLDM

Blech so exausting.

i didn't make it in time for day change so the number of cards I have to do today is even higher. I might not be able to sleep today

It's strategy change time again.

Deck 8 is really easy. So I'm buying time for the harder decks to settle and focusing on it for the next 4 days after which I'll evaluate where is next easiest. I'll knock off all the easy ones going up in difficulty as each deck gets depleted

>>155954
>it has only tangential benefit to words themselves and the patterns you're supposed to learn
It'll help you remember the readings of hundreds of characters more easily, how's that tangential? The vast majority of kanji follow this pattern. I understand if reading papers doesn't fit your chosen style, that's why I'm recommending just the one, and it'll help you more than just cards.

>>155982
But I'm literally learning the outcome of this paper by practicing anyways

>>155982
It's useless, because you can't THINK yourself out of learning how to read. It doesn't help you to KNOW how to read all these characters, to apply these rules and whatnot. Languages don't work like that, you learn them by feeling.

It's better to just let the brain find the pattern on its own, even if it seems to take longer, because that makes it firmer than obessing over some rule that holds sometimes but not all of the time.

Does english have
- Pitch accent
- and Word durations(加工 kakou vs　過去 kako)
?

>>156117
First one, no, its accent is based on stress. Some European languages have pitch, but they're in the minority.
It also doesn't have length in same way other languages do. The words "pot", "law", and "coin" all have something that can be described as an o-sound, of which pot is short while law is long, but they're actually all different vowels and the length difference isn't even that big in North American dialects, it's more pronounced in the UK and Australia. Same with pit vs meat, also different vowels. In Japanese it's just the same vowel but ~50% longer.
So no to both.

>>156118
Ye.. makes sense why people say that the audio of japanese is harder than written.

It's the curse of "simplicity" where it looks really nice and then you start trying to do things with it and realize that in order to achieve the same depth of communication you have to stuff in many other alternative concepts that require meta knowledge

>>156119
Pitch accent is at least not crucial, there are several different types of pitch across Japanese dialects, some of which lack it altogether, and they're still able to understand each other. In the few cases where it is contrastive, like 橋 vs 端 vs 箸, context is what's doing the heavy lifting. Wouldn't make sense to ask for a bridge inside a restaurant.
The one that really fucks with English speakers is reducing unaccented vowels into schwas, it's a basic feature built into all varieties and makes their attempts at speaking other languages sound stereotypically like a slurry paste, in the same that someone clearly modulating every vowel sounds very ESL. That's one of the main things to watch out for, for a lv1 weab kowai and kawaii will sound identical because of it.

Linking Dogen again because he explains literally everything here:
https://nyaa.si/view/1497535

>>156120
you're not explaining this in a way that makes sense to me. I'm not sure what an unnacented/schwas is and how I tie that into mistaking kowai for kawaii?

I'll download this set because I wasn't going to pay dogen for something he didn't advertise well.

I might be overthinking it because I have a lot of vocal and musical training already digested into me and thinking I'm doing something wrong when it feels like I don't...

>>156122
Essentially, each language has a set of rules that determines what sounds are permitted, in what positions, and in combination with that. These are your "constraints."
First, let's look at how the words are composed in Japanese:
怖い: /ko.wa.i/
可愛い: /ka.wa.i.i/
The sound /aii/ isn't natural for English, so it's immediately simplified to just /ai/, this is an extremely normal ocurrence. Now, both words end with /-wai/. But they still differ in the first vowel, right?
Let's assume, now, that the English speaker is placing his stress on the /wai/, because it's a long sound, while the first syllable is short. It's not something that is guaranteed to happen, but it's very normal as well.

Now, consider German, and a word like, say, "Letten." You may assume, by looking at the two <e>, that they both make the same sound. You'd be wrong. The first syllable, which is accented, makes the sound /ɛ/ (the standard e-sound of German), while the second syllable (which is unaccented) either sounds like /ə/ (a schwa) or disappears entirely, and the word is then pronounced /ˈlɛ.tn̩/ with a syllabic N (the ' indicates where the accent falls). It's reduced in volume and moved towards the center of the mouth, or deleted altogether, and this happens not only with all unaccented /e/ in German but with many other kinds of sounds across other Germanic languages, like English. Thus you see a Latin loan like "commence", clearly written with an <o>, pronounced as /kəˈmɛns/, collect as /kəˈlɛkt/, collude as /kəˈluːd/, along as /əˈlɔŋ/, assist as /əˈsɪst/, you get the idea by now: it's extremely common for the initial unaccented syllable in English to just be a schwa, and this can happen regardless of what letter it's written. This makes it infamous.

If we now return to the Japanese words, we may expect them thus to be pronounced like this by an untrained English speaker:
怖い: /kə'waɪ/
可愛い: /kə'waɪ/
And that's how they end up being homophonous.

>>156124
You don't need to watch the full thing, don't worry about that. Look at the basics, and whatever worries you at the moment. The individual videos are short, and you can jump into the videos for consonants or vowels without any need to have watched the ones about pitch.

Crazy how these snake oil salesmen have managed to convince so many people that what they're peddling is somehow absolutely essential.

>>156126
t. non-knower

>>156126
vagueposting tard-kun........

https://youtu.be/xX050NcDNAU?si=nLDOrU5vvbZ7HTsy&t=89
feel like one of the most important feelings of advancing in japanese is understanding this without the context of the full sentence

>>156125
>Letten
That's not a German word and your analysis of how this word would be pronounced in German if it existed is incorrect.
The vowel prior to a double consonant is usually unstressed, rather than stressed and "en" specifically drops the e sound, but other "vowel-n" word endings like "an" and and "on" also drop the vowel in a similar fashion. Comparing "High German" pronunciation to English pronunciation in general is a very bad idea, as English is not too closely related to modern High German in the first place.

>>156155
You're right that it's not a good example example to use, I picked it arbitrarily, however the same thing happens with others like Lette or Kissen. That is besides the point though, that what I describe and what you describe are both the product of a sound system that was developed in Proto-Germanic.

apparently this is wrong
They're all mid-high pitch?
https://www.japandict.com/?s=shimeru&lang=eng

does 道　、車道　、道路 translate best to path, street and highway?

>>156319
No. 道路 refers to streets/roads in general, not just highways. 車道 specifically refers to the part of a street on which cars drive, in contrast to footpaths (歩道) and cycleways (自転車道). 道 can refer to paths, but it is used more broadly than the English term, commonly being used in reference to roads and such, especially in spoken Japanese.

Practicing helps with improvisation, but improvisation will always be that. You have to be ready to embrace failure when talking in a foreign language.
Perhaps an idea that some cultures force onto the zeitgeist, is that foreigners are dirty therefore if you are to become one then you must be perfect, but the reality is that you're going to be an ugly gaijin for at least a portion of your time in dealing with foreign languages

Blech, only 2700 cards(540 words minus katakana) left until I have enough vocabulary to start applying and mastering the <2000 words that core2000 thinks are important.
Then I can start spending time on more nuanced things such as improving on the important vocabulary that were missed, building on my understanding of conjugations, reading in practice, composing thoughts and sentences in Japanese and so on.

My listening comprehension is better just by having a larger set of words, but grammatical conjugations can be strange to deal with at times.
At mature status on 748 words, ~560 are still being developed, 540 to get through, ~150 were pointless katakana loan words.

Currently doing 120 cards a day so I've gone faster from my July 21st target to July 16/17. But the stack of reviews takes me basically my entire day and I was out most of yesterday so I was lying in bed trying to just get the new cards done and left a backlog of reviews.

So today is going to be a but if a crunch

>>156508
Why do you have 2700 cards for 500 words?

>>156512
hello new chatter

you have one word
- 1 sentence made out of characters that you read
- 1 sentence pronounced without seeing characters

- 1 time seeing a raw kanji of the word
- 1 time seeing an English translation of the word
- 1 time hearing a pronunciation of the word

The sentences can contain multiple words from other sets or words you've never heard before, but in all cases the goal is to understand the target words

>>156515
that's why you turn on "auto bury cards with same note" so you only at most see a sentence and a character/

in any case, I don't really care

>>156517
yeah but that still-
>>156518
hm okay

>>156521
stop being a nerd. Sometimes all you need is brute force

I guess since the card counts are pretty even I'll do 23 for each

>>156716
654 cards due

>>156729
stay tuned folks, still 17 more days to go

>>156844
It has an unnamed subject taking the place of/replacing whatever is marked by に, in this case the boss. You have to just surmise that the subject is the speaker, but there's nothing specifying it.

>>156844
In Japanese, if you don't see a subject, it's safe to assume it's the speaker, unless provided with context that suggests otherwise.

>>156845
so basically it's meta(culture)

>>156847
It's just context. It works for people other than yourself too, it even works in English even if it's not natural.
As an example sentence:
¥Leading the meeting, replacing usual speaker.
If the guy on the podium said this, you would know he meant himself. If someone not on the podium said this, you would know he is talking about the guy on the podium. If the context is vague you would be more likely to specify, but in real life you can communicate partially with body language instead. Even eyes talk.

>>156848
So would you say it the exact same way if you were refering to the person standing next to you or similar?
I think that you would speak slightly differently under other circumstances.
It's not quite context, it's just the wording you would pick when talking about the self

Unless you really do use the exact same sentence depending on different people which would be stupid as hell

>>156847
Basically, yeah. Japs often prefer to avoid using pronouns not because it's in any way ungrammatical but because it's impolite, and the basic heuristic is >>156846, overruled by further context as >>156848 explains.
>>156849
There are certain things that indicate explicitly whether you are talking about yourself or someone else, like the auxiliaries あげる/くれる, but there is no conjugation that marks for person, so it could indeed be the exact same string of words with a different subject depending on the context.

>>156849
I am just explaining the concept of using context instead of pronouns. It has nothing to do with culture and I am not telling you to ctrl-c and backspace random pronouns or that there are hard rules here. Just immerse a ton and you'll understand the concept. It's language, not math.

>>156850
I am saying that you would not speak the exact same way with someone around you as you would with yourself as the subject. I said nothing of conjugation or special grammatical rules. I mean you literally would not pick the same choices if someone were near you.

Don't make it autistically difficult.

>>156854
I'm not doing anything except dispelling the mystery that Japanese is some sort of magical language where no one understands what they're talking about

You already know what it means to infer from context. Now read a VN and never worry about it again. I am not going to study autistic linguistic terms to do what you can learn in two seconds. "It's inferred from context".

>>156856
it's like you're purposely misreading what I'm trying to say to avoid having a serious linguistic discussion... for some reason... am I right or wrong that depending on various situations people will chose different routes... therefor there is no such thing as a context based language in Japanese, it's just a bunch of meta choices you only pick up through engaging with the culture

>>156852
>>156853
If you have a magical understanding of language where understanding is spontaneously attained with no recourse to rules, is there anything to debate?
>>156858
You need to engage with the culture to understand its conventions and clear up ambiguities, yes. He's telling you to just infer from the context, but for some reason excludes social conventions from that context.

>>156858
>it's just a bunch of meta choices you only pick up through engaging with the culture
just like posting on kissu...

Couldn't fully complete a day, 1000 cards due

Going to have to really start increasing the intervals or press easy more often now. But the number of decks is decreasing meaning the number of reviews from other decks is getting easier and being shifted onto the decks which are much more niche and targetted towards newspapers rather than conversation, perhaps I scale it down before the 17th and instead when it becomes completely untenable...

But it's a bit of a goal of mine to finally 100% clear the Core2K decks. Adding in the katakana later i guess

So, I'll still complete my lifelong goal of clearing the core2K deck, but not by the 16th/17th and probably more like the 30th and slowly replace it with literature and training that makes use of the vocabulary and sentences I've picked up

>>157110
I don't even know how you do that many cards in a day. Would take me the entire day to do that many since I always sound out every sentence before confirming I got it right, and redo if I messed it up even slightly.

>>157112
> Would take me the entire day
from 12AM to 7AM

Also I've learned a lot of methods to make it work but they only slow down the inevitable pile into 1000s of cards... Like right now if I focus on decks 7 and 9 and get my 120 new cards in while I'm not tired, I can handle the reviews much easier.

This is something I realized basically yesterday so I think I can use this technique to hold on for 4 more days and finish off those decks, but there's still 1100 cards left in decks 3 and 4 which I don't think I can sustain. They're all political words like "political power" and "water system"

>>157114
you can try suspending all the obviously unnecessary cards
you're not getting to the level of competency needed to discuss politics, and you're not gonna be reading logh either

>>157118
I do that with anything katakana that I can kinda guess already.
kinda hard to know what real words I don't need to know. There are a lot of variations on "change" that just have different kanji. And some intransitive vs transitive conjugations. But for the most part those are easy enough.

Anyways, it's a personal goal to complete this set and anything I suspend is going to be recovered eventually.

How does 作業 fit in with 仕事　
And also 勤める　　and 働く

>>157125
>How does 作業 fit in with 仕事
The former is more abstract (it doesn't explicitly describe someone doing it) and smaller in scope.

>勤める and 働く
being "employed" (abstract) to do the thing vs doing the thing

Deck7 very weird... The last 60 were all duplicates from the start. I wonder if there was some kind of import error...

Well. In any case it makes completing it easier and lets me divert effort towards retaining some more of the harder cards for a day.

deck 9 is also lays out a lot of onomatopoeia, which is also kinda niche...

Anyways, that's completed today. Leaving only the 3rd and 4th deck. So I'll do those at a rate of 45 cards per day, then have the other decks die down a bit and start working in reading/grammar/composition and etc

what a mess, I'm looking up most of these words and they're graded at N1