Hello ruffians!
Thanks to your encouragement I started with my Nihongo learning journey!
Day 161: Today I've done my anki and immersion reps. For anki I've learned 10 new cards. For immersion I've watched three episode of an anime. A little bit of a longer update this time, haven't done this in a while:
Yesterday I had less then 100 due to cards. That's the first time it happened basically since the first time I got more than 100 due to cards. What I mean is that it had never dropped below 100 again. It happened now cause I did a little bit more of Anki (and maybe cause of immersion reps, but I don't think it's the case, I'll explain why I think that later) than I actually shared with you guys. The thing is, the screenshots I'm sharing are made immediately after I finish my first, main Anki session. After that I have 2 more, shorter sessions with custom decks that I make every day: the first is with leeches and the second one is with the cards I forgot in the last 1 day.
I started doing them around 40 days ago, as it can be seen here
https://files.catbox.moe/rq7ktb.png . I did it cause I came to the point where I couldn't even sustain 5 new cards a day (first lowered it from 20 to 15, then to 10, then to 5). On the graph it doesn't look so bad, but it doesn't show how many times I set number of new cards for the day to 0. Well, the circled days were the breaking point, I was doing just 5 new cards and at that one day I needed 1.2 hours to finish it (idk how many due to cards, prob more than 170).
Since then I never increased the new cards for the day above 5 (oke, did it once to 6 a few days back just so I can be exactly at half point; I forgot to say it in the
blogpost), but never decreased it either. Time and number of reviews has gradually gotten down, my retention for mature and young cards got way better and I personally started feeling better about Anki grind.
We'll see how it goes with this increase to 10 new cards every day. I promised to myself that I won't lower it in any case for at least 10 days, after that we'll see what happens.
A few words about my Japanese understanding at the moment: regardless of everything still really bad. I played the part of Pekora bday call in stream when Mococo and Fuwawa called and I understood very little. Only after watching translated clip I got what they were talking about. So I'm far away form the goal line. I feel like it's not all bad, Japanese words and phrases pop up in my head randomly during the day. I was talking in English in VC with my team mate from some game a few days ago and at some point I almost said 実は。It popped in my head before frankly, to tell you the truth, by the way or any other English version. When it happens it usually does when I think in English, not so much when I do in my native language. Maybe cause I'm learning Japanese using English, or it's simply cause when I think in my native language Japanese words or phrases don't have time to pop up before the ones from my native language.
When it comes to immersion, I've just finished the anime I was watching, so I'll prepare Kanon for watchalong. I won't be watching it live, even if I would want to I couldn't with the watching-every-episode-two-time method I'm using. Fuwawa mentioned in the last FWMC morning that it's the anime that is well know for pretty much making anyone cry and now I'm frightened. The Planetarium (I've finished it from the point they had to stop) left me scarred, I pray this won't be as bad. Have fun and BAU BAU a lot if you're gonna watch it live!
FUWAMOCO love!
BAU BAU!
