Friday, October 2, 2015

Progress Update - Day 12

As of early today, I know a bit over 200 words, which feels awesome! My goal is to learn and remember 10 words per day, so I'm doing pretty good so far. I have to review all I've learned a lot so I can remember everything. There are a few greeting phrases I am still working to remember well. Simpler things like food, clothes, numbers, etc. I don't have much problem remembering so far.

I was struggling the last few days on some greetings and I don't have them all down perfect or anything, but I pushed through today and practiced a lot and improved quite a bit. I've found that if I just practice by ear and don't say all the words out loud, I don't remember or learn things as well. So today I worked to say all the words out loud and not just listen and read them. Makes sense I guess!

I have my headset coming in the mail later, which means hopefully I'll be using Rosetta Stone by later today. I'm excited to see how I can progress once I start with that too!

I've been using the Mindsnacks app and Memrise a lot. At first I didn't really like Memrise, but I've stuck with it and am liking it more now. It's helped me learn more than just the Mindsnacks alone.

The Dr Moku apps have helped me remember the hiragana characters that I've struggled to remember. So most of the hiragana I have down pretty well now which is great. I've been progressing along on the katakana as well, but I haven't worked on it as much.

I'll update with how the Rosetta Stone goes! I did the free level 1 trial app last week and had liked it. Can't wait to keep going!

Ja mata!

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