Started learning Japanese in September last year while on vacation because I had spare time and local language school ads started appearing on feed. 😀
Classic Duolingo daily (214 streak as of today); doing about 10 minutes max
Kaishi 1.5K; started 10x daily until I got through about half, at which point my daily stack was 120-130 cards taking around an hour and ballooning. I've since dropped it to 5x a day and it's stabilized at a 95-105 cards and takes around 25 minutes. 813 mature, 491 young, 197 new.
Usagi Chan Kanji; "completed" after doing 1x day for around 3 months, takes under 5 minutes. 52 mature, 70 young, 0 new. Still doing it.
Wanikani + Kaniwani; started late December, currently at Lv 13, typical level-up is 9 days, 18 hours, 24 minutes, usually practice around 1h, maybe a bit more.
IRL Japanese lessons in foreign language school: once a week, 1.5h + generally 1h of homework weekly. Focus on grammar and conversation.
I'd say I'm currently operating within capacity and I'm not overwhelmed but there are ofc easier and harder days. My question in general is… immersion and how to get "into it". The thing with other stuff is that it's easy to launch apps or web page on phone/PC. Immersion requires me to actively seek some content and I'm not sure how to proceed.
Do I go into reading? And if yes, do I just open Natively and look for Lv 15~ content? How to know what to read? Stuff like this?
https://learnnatively.com/book/832a14c325/
https://learnnatively.com/series/674b028554/
Do I watch anime? If yes, what would be most helpful? Do I listen to Moe's Way and watch Love Live! School Idol Project? Are there better animes for first timer? I don't really care for any specific theme tbh.
I feel like I'm missing out on immersion and would like to remedy that.
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