This is as good a time as any I suppose
Nip training diary Week 5. Previous:
>>68750526>The theme of the last month so far has been "2 steps forwards and 1 step back", or maybe 3 and 1 respectively, for a few reasons>I've been mostly focused on doing my Anki reps if I'm being honest. I thought they'd be more of a supplementary thing but now that the words have stacked up to the hundreds, reviewing and learning the 20 new words a day takes around an hour, which is a lot. That said, it's surprisingly fun to do so I don't feel too bad about dropping the Inukai-san manga.>like indicated above, I know concretely the kanji for at least a hundred words now, and probably have a shakier grasp on around 2-300 or so. I use these estimates because I have long since given up on keep precise track>mercifully I've begun to notice real-world, tangible results already. I can actually read simpler sentences and tweets that I see in the wild that I wouldn't have been able to a month ago, and it feels great when that happens. The biggest difference though, is that even when I don't know the words, my eyes no longer glaze over sentences with kanji in them and actually, automatically, try to recognize them.That's pretty much it, but I'd like to say a few things about the process I've noticed, at least with me. Some words are easier than others. Sometimes I learn a word instantly, other after seeing it, other times, I get the same word wrong in every review for like 6 days straight. I'm starting to intuit that the learning process might be essentially a negotiation with my subconscious. It - not me - chooses what I do and don't remember, and if I go into my reps with that mindset I find that it helps with learning and avoiding frustration.
Another thing I've noticed is that seeing the same thing in a different context has a multiplicative effect, not an additive one, and I think that's the real benefit to immersion reps (where previously I thought it was useful for motivation).
Anyways, I'm no longer treading water but have sank below the waves. I can't see the destination anymore and don't know when I'll emerge on the other side but I hope I have the strength to stick it out and reach Yuu one day.