Progress Update - Day 130

皆さんこんばんは。

Here I am on day 130 - yay! I have really been studying hard doing all of my "chain items" each day continuing with the study habit recommendations of NihongoShark.com. Each day there are three types of studying you have to do:

1. Study your flash cards or whatever you're using for vocabulary study. 

Right now I'm using a combination of Anki, AnkiApp, and Memrise. 

2. Listen to at least one audio lesson per day. 

I'm utilizing my JapanesePod101.com subscription and have been faithfully listening to at least one lesson per day, sometimes more. I like the video lessons as well through their site.

3. Make sure to speak Japanese everyday, and spend at least a little time studying grammar. 

I have several grammar books and Tae Kim's guide that I've been studying a little each day.

This past week my husband and I invested in some of the grammar books and other study materials we've been looking at for a while. We had checked some of them out at the library first to try them out. It's been exciting to have all that I need right at my finger tips and not all of it online. Sometimes it's nice to have a good book.

I've been making progress on my vocabulary. It's going pretty good, but it's a little more difficult than how I had been doing things before. I have three Anki decks that I have set to give me 35 new cards to study each day. One of those decks is for Kanji that I already studied using a JLPT app, but I thought I would continue studying them using the Anki deck so that I can keep them in my memory even better while I'm still beginning. The other two decks are very similar to each other but are slightly different. They both have a lot of the same words (at least that I've noticed so far) but the study styles between them are different and it helps me to have both even though there is a lot of word overlap.

My goal is to know between 8,000 to 10,000 words by my one year anniversary of beginning Japanese. That will be on September 21, 2016. I'm trying to learn 35 new words each day to reach my goal. It's been a little hard this week starting my Anki deck and being better at studying. I've really been trying to get down the various readings that can be associated with each kanji. The deck I downloaded and that I consider my main study tool really focuses on all the different words and thus different readings all involving the same kanji. It's been harder at first for me but I know over time it will be worth the extra work and effort to really know these things.

Until next time!

じゃまた。