>>62804505>As much I would like to learn japanese, it is like almost a second job tooI guess that depends on your approach and how demotivated you get if you don't make progress quick. I spent my first year casually grinding anki. This took anywhere from 10 - 30 minutes a day. I still do this just to keep vocab fresh. After that first year I started playing simple JRPGs, where I could control the text advancement and look stuff up as necessary.
But my motivation was specifically that, mostly to play games, so once I got to that point I was feeling great. It doesn't transfer as well to understanding streams, but still helps a lot.
So imagine if you did just that. Just stuck with anki reps and watching streams. Not the most efficient, but it would also be low effort. Adding in 10-30 minutes of flashcards on top of what you already do. If you continue watching fbk for even one year after starting, you'd probably look back and be surprised at how much more you can understand despite not doing what would be actual proper study.
Of course, that said, it would only really work out if you focus on the streams and don't use them as background noise. Unfortunately that's what I do, which is why my listening comprehension is still relatively low. Still, roughly 60% - 70% comprehension when I focus is well above the maybe 10% it would be if I had never started reps.
There's also the issue of how mentally exhausting your job is. I've missed two days of anki reps this year because I didn't do them in the morning, and had a lot of fires to put out during work, so I forgot to do my panic check in the evening.
