>>25681320>>25683090Doing reps when work sucks can be really rough, when I'm having a tough day at work I just know that my retention and recall will be terrible for that day. Working from home has been a blessing for my reps, I can just do a dozen cards in a short break here and there over the course of my work day I'll have done almost all of them by the time I'm done with work for the day, except for when it's a really busy day. Don't need to cram them in what little time I have left in the evenings anymore most days.
I'm not sure if the thread has given up on their reps or if a lot of the rep people just left or post less. We were a lot more active here last year, especially during the daily OraNatsu/Undertale streams. I remember our threads usually lasted about 3-4 days, now most of them are like 5-7 days.
>>25681571I've been getting pretty decent at understand her as well, which has always been my main motivation, but somehow learning learning languages has always created some sort of dopamine loop in my brain for me. I do my reps, I understand her better, I get motivated to do more reps, need more material for reps, branch out to new topics, get back to Shirakami and understand even more. I always try to look up stuff she mentions that she likes (games, manga, anime etc.) to branch out of stuff I'd usually check out and see if it interests me and to be able to understand what she is talking about better, as well. That made me way more interested in different aspects of Japanese culture over time.
>>25682922Maybe it's just me but I found using anime much easier than manga in the beginning because anime with Japanese subtitles makes looking up and mining stuff a lot easier and more efficient as opposed to having to use OCR, using radicals to look up Kanji or manually typing Furigana in a dictionary to look up stuff. The combination of audiovisual elements also makes stuff a lot easier to remember as well when repping the material as cards. Back when I started I read some Yotsubato and stuff like most beginner guides recommend, but I only really started feeling comfortable reading manga much much later when the amount of stuff I had to look up (and thus the hassle) was significantly reduced. Might depend on the person, though.
