Progress as of February 25th

Oh dear! 4 months since I last posted something. >< Well, that's because I got a burn-out and I've been home with absolutely no energy since early November. So I also didn't have the energy to learn more Japanese.

I decided to stop doing RTK2, as it was taking up a shitload of time doing reviews and I couldn't add any more. Also, while I'm learning vocabulary, I'm also learning the pronunciation of the characters, so it would be doing double the work. I can always go back in a few years and redo it, checking what I don't know yet.

Last week I added some more words in my vocabulary deck, bringing me up to 239 words there. The Anki spaced review settings are a bit too spaced apart for me, but I don't know how to change that, except for the initial hard/good/easy settings. It's not the initial settings that are giving me trouble, it's the big space between the 2nd and 3rd and 4th review, etc. I fail a lot of cards due to that. But it's better than nothing, I guess. :)

I've also restarted Pimsleur (the listening/repeating Japanese course). I redid a lot of units I'd done before, and up to Unit 15 or so this was super easy, then I started making mistakes again (which is fine). The words that I often mix up or forget, I've added to Anki so I learn them a bit more, and things are going fine that way. I'm up to Unit 17 now. I put them on my iPod so I usually do them while doing the dishes or driving somewhere far (they're 30 minutes each). XD

It also helps that I've also studied some more Tae Kim grammar chapters. I now know more grammar, which can help me see the sentence structures used in Pimsleur and remember them more logically; so not just repeating them, but also knowing which grammar has to be used and falling back on that when I can't remember the actual sound.

I'm still going slow, but it's all I can do for now.

I did always keep up with my reviews, so I don't have a hopeless pile of reviews stacked somewhere that would make me want to just say 'f*ck it' and stop learning altogether. I still do want to learn this language, so I'll try to keep up. ^^ Ganbatte!!