I am N3, but passed years ago. I live in Japan. Converse and understand pretty well, i can handle daily life, taxes visa etc. i just ask people to explain a word i dont understand more simply and all is fine.
I honestly got lazy due to how i can get by no problem. However i am going to try get to N1.
I installed bunpro and found doing 3 grammar points a day for N2 and 10 vocab has caused me only a 40% successive rate on review 4 days in.
This is partly because im forced to use their input system rather than Japanese phone input(kept marking every kanji as wrong, wont accept them), but also because i get confused what its asking me to do(conjugate, etc).
I was wondering if its better to just get a good Anki deck for vocab instead and then have bumpro as just for grammar. Perhaps this would be more efficient for me?
I dislike studying this way, but i cant afford to go to a school again. This may just be pains of someone self studying for the first time outside of a context where i can speak a lot or listening to a lot of input at once(and if i am honest, even in school and since i learned most of my Japanese just from brute force conversation and mass context listening/reading).
For example. I get a random word like “microscope” wrong 10 times in a row on review because i just dont care about them, but the word for planting rice i know immediately because i enjoy gardening😅
If i heard 顕微鏡 used in a irl conversation I’d remember it easily forever however.
Any general advice for a transition to self learning will be appreciated, as it may be what my real struggle is
by Acerhand