Hello, I've been learning for a couple months now. I do Anki daily (3 new words a day), I listen to almost exclusively J-Pop or other Japanese music, and I play games for multiple hours a day and have them set to Japanese voices with English subs when applicable. However, that last one has been less appealing recently. I don't actually mind it that much, but I prefer having them in English. I will say that it has been somewhat helpful, I'll notice sometimes a word that I recognize or how sentences are structured, but I never actively look for it. Because I spend most of my time gaming as my main hobby, I'm pretty much always listening, which I know is good, but I was curious about whether or not it would be good to replace that with shorter amounts of legitimate study instead of a few hours of "Oh, that was a word i recognized associated with *insert visual*".
Tl;dr, Is it better to replace 4-6 hours of non-intense listening practice with actual studying for a shorter time (reading Tae Kim or Genki, practicing handwriting, etc.)? If not, how much extra listening practice should I get on top of the few hours I get with music during the day? If so, what should I use/do to compensate and for how long?
by Phoenxx_1