Pictures are of my Anki reviews over the years. Darker blue means more reviews that day.
When people ask me how long I’ve studied Japanese, I never know what to say. I started learning nearly 4 years ago, but with how many days I missed, it’s practically less than half a year.
I still have fun learning, and feel good about my progress when I actually do study. Excited to try and stay consistent for good!
800 words into my Core 2k deck i started ages ago. 💀
by vghouse
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Finally relatable Anki stats
Seems to be a universal truth in any pursuit. This graph looks just like my github commit history on the game I’m developing. If wanikani had this mine would look like it too.
Same, I’ve started in 2020, but laid back in 2022 when my classes at uni ended. So technically it’s been 5 years, but in reality I wouldn’t pass JLPT N5.
As long as you’re not in a time crunch and absolutely need to pass a certain JLPT test, there’s no rush. I’ve been studying for 5 years now, but I’ll take like half a year breaks so I’m definitely not where I could be. But at the same time, life is busy and I have work and other hobbies. Even if my progress is slow, I’m happy I haven’t burnt out and I still enjoy studying Japanese when I do sparingly study. We’ll get to our goals one day
the easiest way to learn consistency is by doing only few cards a day, like 1-5. After around 3 month you brains starts reminding you about anki automatically
Relatable
Mandatory daily flex of my 1239 days streak
Mine is similarly swiss cheesey. I long ago learned to stop treating my hobbies like homework. i have too much other bullshit in my life for that. I study when I will enjoy it and i don’t when i won’t.
Most relatable post on this sub.
Normal for any large endeavor. Also why years is an entirely empty metric and shouldn’t be used. It’s not end-all-be-all, but at least a rough hourly count spent is a much better indication.
Tips for people who are behind anki (I was late on my reviews over 4000 cards):
Make a filtered deck which corresponds exactly to the amount of reviews you are behind.
Next make sure cards are selected by relative overdueness, that’s the most important factor.
After that go to the main deck and suspend all cards, the cards in the filtered deck will gradually return to the main deck while you whittle down the filtered deck, after you are finished with filtered deck you can unsuspend all cards.
LETS GO MAN someone that knows the true struggle.
I’ve been cleaning up an old core 2k/6k deck for the past month. I started at 700 reviews, I am currently at 694. Obviously my strategy of reviewing 10 cards per day is not worrking so im going to have to do to 2 serious sessions of idk 50 cards in the morning and 50 cards at night to get this shit done.
My calender, but with more years. I have a huge problem with being consistent with anything.
Lol relatable progress. I decided to open Wanikani last week and had 600 reviews. I planned to do some throughout the day just to whittle them down before I started learning new words again. Just as I started to be consistent for a few days, my review count went from 500 to 1200 😭. I guess there were another 600 words in the enlightened SRS stage (4 months) from the last time I whittled down a big batch. I guess I’ll just keep going forward…
I have a similar pattern of study and usually say:
「ずっとじゃない」 or 「断続的に」 (though not sure if these are appropriate).
Edit to ask: not that this matters, but have you taken the JLPT and/or what “level” do you feel you are at now?
You’ve mastered the Japanese way of using quotation marks, I see.
Extremely spaced repetition
It is really refreshing to see someone who also doesn‘t pass like N1 after half a year lol
but do you do anything else aside from anki?
I’ve had a very similar experience to this (3 years instead of 4). I built this site to keep in my bookmarks and do one word a day when I’m in a time crunch [https://dailykanji.xyz/](https://dailykanji.xyz/)
I have technically been studying japanese for over 20 years, because I learned the kana over 20 ago, and studied grammar, vocabularly, and writing off and on over the years.
Recently, I decided to get serious and get over any hestitation or fears I had about the language. My Anki shows 84 days studied in the past 90 days, and I feel like my vocabulary increased from around 400 words to around 1200 in that time.
I am starting to feel my first tipping point in my knowledge of Japanese in a long time. I can read short stretches of native content, and I feel like I know around 50% of the kanji and grammar, compared to about 10% just a few months ago.
The power of consistency is amazing.
There is nothing wrong with your kind of study pattern, but if you want to feel the next level of satisfaction with your progress, even a tiny amount of studing per day will make you feel like you are actually studying the language instead of kidding yourself.
Me trying to learn japanese and hit top 500 in Valorant while maintaining good grades
Does anki show you the total amount of hours spent using it?
damn its like mine
sweet
Yeah Looks Like me. I started my learning Journey now for the 4. time (… maybe even 5..).
But this time I managed to have a real Goal to Work for (my husband gifted me Original Death Note). So I started leaving out things which don’t feel like fun at the Moment and stick to the things I like. And well I managed to learn at least 2h per day. Now for around something like 3 weeks. And it still feels enjoyable.
I guess I just accepted that I need my own way. And If that way is starting over and over again and Just getting slowly forward thats it. So now I’m focus on Reading/ listening and building up vocab and this helps a lot as you feel like you are going somewhere.