Sorry if this is a highly ignorant question but I was thinking about this today…. I'm going on about 8 months and change of Japanese and have been shifting more and more towards immersion as my primary "studying" method which was a very welcome change. It's (obviously) a lot more fun to just watch TV and read manga and just try to look up words and grammar points I don't understand as I go along.
I've kept up with Anki in the meantime doing about 10-20 new vocab words a day + the prior reviews and my mined sentences. But…. I'm realizing I am starting to dread "making it through" my daily Anki. I'm going through them slower, I feel like I'm getting less out of them, and I'm definitely not enjoying it. I just assumed some amount of grind is expected and kept going. But now I'm wondering if it's such a terrible idea to completely drop Anki? Or at least severely reduce its use?
I wanted to ask the intermediate or advanced people out there (i.e. people further along than me): have you run into this feeling? How did you address it? Did you grind through the anki because it was worth it? Did you make intentional changes to reduce or, perhaps in extreme cases, even fully stop Anki?
Thank you as always <3 Happy studying my friends
by Numerous_Birds