Last year when I didn’t have a job I was making studying Japanese a higher priority in my daily activity. I was doing Anki every day and trying to watch vids/ listen to podcasts.
Then I got a job in early September, and though I tried to keep the habit, getting used to my new job was taking a lot of my mental energy. Soon I stopped entirely.
Now I’m trying to get back to it and I feel like I’ve forgotten everything, and it’s very disheartening.
To be clear I think right now it’s just words I’ve forgotten. I can still read hiragana and katakana just fine. But when I go to my Anki deck, most of the less common words are gone from my memory.
I’m considering restarting the whole deck because I’m so frustrated having hundreds of words I don’t remember anymore coming up. But I feel this is just my brain trying to take an easy out, and feel good when I recognize all the easy ones again.
Any advice on how to pick myself back up again? I’m aiming to get to a decent level by end of year.
by Psychological-Band-8